Daniela Liscio is a Canadian lawyer who left Canada but still wants the best for her homeland and her fellow Canadians. In this brilliant post, she goes through some uncomfortable truths that many Canadians likely won’t want to hear, but must:
It is impossible to articulate the Canadian identity without referencing its adherence to its moral superiority.
Canadians believe they are an evolved society with a relatively peaceful existence because of their compassion, tolerance and virtue. In keeping with this identity of higher society, they are more likely to adhere to the belief in a single defined “public good” that apparently only a few (incompetent) bureaucrats at the top can define.
It’s why Canadians were more inclined to blindly follow pandemic restrictions …
… or believe that it was OK for Trudeau to invoke the Emergencies Act against the truckers protesting their subjugation of bodily autonomy …
… or give in to a politician telling them to open their hearts — and wallets — without question.We Canadians are bred to show off our moral virtue especially compared to those gun-slinging racists to the South. We are taught to believe that our social safety net is stronger — and that’s the reason we have a kinder, gentler population that doesn’t get kids shot up in schools.
Ms. Liscio isn’t the only one who has noticed that something has gone very, very wrong in Canada. Simply put, why do so many Canadians hate Donald Trump specifically and Americans generally, than love their own country or future?!? Gad Saad coined the term “empathetic suicide”. This surely describes what just happened in Canada. Here’s his post from last night.
Smiling Happy Victims.
Smile when the insane run you down.
To do otherwise would damage the virtuous and tolerant image of the nation.
The hatred displayed by older voters towards Trump reminds me of the virulent anti-Americanism that PET encouraged about 50 years ago.
l got an 80something dyed-in-the-wool liberal tenant.
gets a stunned look on his face when l tell him about the autopen.
gets a stunned look on his face when l tell him kamalalala sent a black mother to jail because her kid missed school for treatments of cycle cell.
he willfully believes all the lies from cbc and slanted news sources
They are reliving their youth.
Indeed. They were disappointed that Maggie’s brat wasn’t the PET 2.0 they were hoping for, but Carnigula certainly will be.
The population is mostly of these:
https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3458329
It was that way 50 years ago when I saw people mindlessly slobbering over PET. Nothing I said to them about his policies would sway them. PET hated America and that was all they thought they needed to know.
Those aren’t “truth bombs”. Those are her opinions. She wouldn’t originally be from Ontario, would she? Kinda sounds like it to me. I’ve lived on the East Coast and the West Coast. Views of the USA are different all across the country.
Sorry. It has always annoyed me that friends and family and colleagues all take every opportunity to sneer down their noses at Americans. It’s so common, I’ve wondered if there was a law requiring it.
Nah, if there is one thing that defines Canadians, it’s our moral, intellectual (CanadaArm!!!) and military excellence (“we” burnt the White House down… twice!) relative to Americans.
Ok, a quarter to half of us bring up the White House as a joke, but for the rest…
How incredibly WRONG you are! Truth bombs are akin to what `fp` wrote just above your ridiculous comment. I’m saddened that you’re not aware that Leftists across the Western World are not aware of various FACTS that they’ve conveniently obfuscated from their sight.
What we’re going through in this modern age is somewhat akin to the Blue Pills and Red Pills in The Matrix. It seems that the vast majority of Canadians and a sizable number of American Democrats prefer ingesting daily Blue Pills because it makes their lives easier. Think “Shiny, Happy People”.
By what objective measuring stick have you determined that her post is “fact” and not opinion? Because fp recounts his interactions with one Canadian octogenarian, all Canadians are anti-American and the poster has told the truth? Truth has to be true to be true. Opinions can be true but they are not always true. Opinions can just be opinions.
Poppycock!
We let Turdeau run roughshod over us because we don’t have a functioning media or true freedom of speech.
The virtue signaling is a function of being appropriately propagandized and gaslight by all of our public institutions. They are all socialist becoming communist.
I used to think I was moving to the right as I get older but actually it is the Canadian landscape that is moving to the left.
Tommy. Douglas. Was. Not. Wrong.
Most Canadians are indeed subnormal.
Well, she is not wrong at all. Most Canadians ARE too supercilious in their views of the US, especially now. The USA is a great country, that may have lost it’s way a while ago.
I am not American, but always do watch what is going on, as Canada often imports American thinking into our culture, for better or worse. I do not have Trump Derangement Syndrome, as many Canadians do; that said he has been acting like a bull in a china shop. We have completely different constitutional systems. He appears to just ignore the American constitution, congress and senate.
Signing that many executive orders would not be allowed here.
That said, I do think some are good ones. Most diversity, equity and inclusion programs are useless. Most Canadians and a lot of Americans are not racist and treat new immigrants equally. We do not need training. We do not need more “wokism” laws.
Companies must allowed to hire people on merit who are not on visitor visas or illegal.
Control over US borders is very important, as is deporting criminals (and others) who have no legitimate right to be there in the first place. Ditto for Canada. Canada needs a serious look at asylum seekers.
Downsizing Washington (and Ottawa) bureaucrats is a good move too, for both countries.
Green technology is an expensive, fake industry. Many of us want mining to happen, and oil and gas to flow. Most people do not know that mining has to happen before your cell phone works.
Trump should be more worried about China, as they own key American businesses.
He interfered in our Canadian election to get his favourite candidate. This is unconscionable behaviour by an American president. He is acting like a naive buffoon, as 80% of Canadians will never put up with us being a 51st state. Lots of us never wanted Mark Carney from the get go. He calls himself an outsider, and that is what he is.
If Trump’s efforts at negotiation with Trudeau swung the election to Carney, it’s pretty obvious who is naive; and it’s not Trump.
“Signing that many executive orders would not be allowed here.” L, I agree with many of your sentiments, but you should learn civics. They are called Orders in Council, in other words orders of the Privy Council (cabinet). That many orders is routine in Canada, not new. We have been governed by dictats from PMO and PCO since the elder Trudeau, and any appearance of democracy is a thin veneer. You need only remember the capital gains tax increase, the CRA started collecting the new higher rate immediately, because cabinet had decreed it, actually legislating it was a formality. We elect an absolute dictator when we elect a party, constrained by no one and nothing. Please, for the love of God, don’t mention the courts. The SCOC are trained Librano barking seals.
So true. Trudeau 0.2 gutted the Liberal Party and ran the country with just a few ugly friends; resistance had ugly consequences. Now Carney has the reigns. Will he return the Liberal Party to what it once was or will he become even more despotic?
Cant believe this is a question. Do you really think carney was installed to restore rights, freedoms and hydrocarbons?
He’s here to finish us off. Good lord.
Additionally, Executive Orders are signed in public. Orders in council are signed in secret, usually on a Friday Afternoon.
The civil servant’s wet dream legislation:
2(1) subject to ss (2), “mandated or prohibited activities”
2(2)(a) the Minister may make regulations pursuant to the administration and enforcement of ss (1)
(b) the Minister may delegate Ministerial powers to any person for purposes of par (a)
You should have stopped after the first paragraph, rather than broadcast that you have no clue how the US is structured.
The use of an EO is perfectly acceptable under the US constitution for matters involving the executive branch, which the president has complete power over.
The real constitutional crisis in the US is the lawfare getting district court judges to overstep their authority and issue injunctions to stop the current admin from getting things done, even in areas where the higher Supreme Court already has a precedent ruling contradicting the district court.
They know these injunctions will eventually be overturned, but they will have wasted a year or two of his four year term which is their real goal.
Ah, the Executive Order criticism.
Just remember, Obama busted that door down.
Biden burned the door and pissed on the ashes.
They set the precedent.
If it’s OK for Democrats to do it, it’s OK for a Republican president, right?
Or, do as I say, not as I do?
Trump is just playing by their rules, when convenient, of course.
On Trump’s way of conquer.
There are two books on Alexander III of Macedon.
One is Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian and the other is Life of Alexander by Plutarch.
As you may know, Trump went to a military school and likely read some or both of the books.
In the two books you will find that Alexander went on a relentless campaign to conquer, hardly taking a break always chasing and winning against the Persians, never even letting them sleep.
It is rather interesting how Trump is moving, rolling along demolishing the old order and creating a new. Of course it remains to be seen if he has enough time to accomplish his perceived mission and what it may look like.
My guess is that Mark Carney will become quite unpopular rather quickly and there will be a political gridlock requiring a second election. We don’t really need new “analysis” of our situation, everyone here knows exactly what our situation is, too much globalism, not enough resource development in the economy. The challenge is not to find some exact correct analysis but to win a damn election.
Trudeau was unpopular and NDP propped him up. They will continue to do that.
If for no other reason that they aren’t going to have the $$$ to fight another election soon
I find the Dippers crossing the floor strategy to be the most likely scenario. No matter how bad things get, Crooked Carbon Tax Marx Carnage is here until at least 2029.
The Chinese Lieberal Democratic Peoples Republic of Kanada will either corporately dissolve or implode into Venezuela North.
My guess is that Mark Carney will become quite unpopular rather quickly and there will be a political gridlock requiring a second election.
So was PET, but, when he didn’t have the majority he believed he deserved, there was another election. In 1974, he did it himself. In 1979, he had the help of the Broadbent Dippers. Once he got his majorities, he did whatever he pleased as there was no way to stop him.
You watch: Canage will do the same thing.
…. he did whatever he pleased as there was no way to stop him ….
Yes, the Canadian system of government is, in fact a dicktatorship (sic) of the current Prime Minister, there is no one, no party, no opposition that can stop him doing what he wants.
The Canadian constitution isn’t worth the paper that it’s written on, in fact the paper maybe more valuable.
And there is no mechanism to change it to force democracy, however inadequate it may be, rule.
It is so convoluted that one wonders if those that wrote understand what they wrote. It is mostly for the benefit of the bottom feeder as a lifetime well paying enterprise. The population be damned, not that the population cares much.
a most plausible explanation for Cdn voting patterns.
smugness. the look for te ones that are the reflection in the mirror.
smug holier than thou Canadians.
a trend that coincides with the rise in liberalism; gives rise to a variation on the
‘chicken and egg’ dichotomy.
whatever the true full explanation is this sure adds to it. for me.
Its classic.
When you’ve got nothing good going on in your own life, you look to cut down others who have.
But we have gone from this jealousy to letting the lowest common denominator – the losers (criminals, fat people, mental defectives, angry ovulators, angrier queers) – control society, as if its a race to the bottom.
But the majority of Canadians are determined to win the shithole ribbon and even claim Number One status.
Americans will increasingly have a WTF? cloud over their heads when they’re asked about Northern Mexico.
You leave Rosemary Barton alone.
You can dress it up as affected superiority if you want, but the truth is this: most Canadians are just plain yellow.
Don’t offend your garden variety coward by calling them Canadian, average cowards are much braver than that.
If we (CUCKservatives) just pound the bible harder………………………….
I couldn’t help but notice your absence on this particular comment thread which I thought was tailor made for an anti-Christian such as yourself. And it made me wonder if it was an oversight on your part or intentional.
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/04/29/the-libranos-church-and-state/#comments
Canadian arrogance is completely unfounded in my experience and totally annoying .
“Signing that many executive orders would not be allowed here.”
The liberals do whatever they want anyway. No recriminations, no consequences, just take the money and run.
What difference does an EO make? None
To understand the toxicity of the Canadian mindset, just discuss Medicare. Most Canadians believe that only the United States does not have a single payer model for healthcare; they think that every other nation has a single payer model, like us, when in fact everyone else has a multi-payer model with a mixture of private and public options. I’ve tried, but there’s no getting through to people about that myth, particularly with conservative politicians, who usually react with a deer in the headlights look.
“Most Canadians believe that only the United States does not have a single payer model for healthcare; they think that every other nation has a single payer model, like us, when in fact everyone else has a multi-payer model with a mixture of private and public options. ”
Yes, every one of those European nations with health care systems ranked above Canada’s uses that model…because it works. But as you said, they just don’t want to hear it. I blame the government for allowing the health care unions to dictate policy, and for the ridiculous number of hospital ‘administrators’ we have as opposed to doctors and nurses.
Canadian public healthcare is union turf. Period. Until it can be wrested away from the HSAAs, UNAs, CoPs, etc. it will be impossible to reform.
Canadians are anal retentive and confuse being bent over a chair with having a bowel movement.
“Canadians believe they are an evolved society with a relatively peaceful existence because of their compassion, tolerance and virtue.”
Sure they believe that myth, but it ain’t so.
The ONLY reason we have a “peaceful existence” is GEOGRAPHY. That and proximity to a well-armed neighbor.
They might find that delusion evaporating if the shoving match between the US and China gets more serious and they find themselves caught in the middle.
I think the phrase” hoisted on one’s own petard” fits well here. Canadians have been complicit in destroying their own national symbols ( eg. Sir John A.) in the effort to duck responsibility for creating a nation at all. The attack on the Truckers, supported by so many Canadians, showed cowardice and a willingness to follow government dictums, so matter how wrong-headed. There are half- hearted efforts to rouse Canadians latent sense of patriotism in response to Trump, but previously, signs of patriotism were looked down on as crass Americanism. Did anyone object when Trudeau designated Canada a “post national state”. One Globe columnist did — recently, 10 years too late., Well, now we do not have much of a country, and we only gave ourselves to blame.
“Canadians believe they are an evolved society with a relatively peaceful existence because of their compassion, tolerance and virtue.”
That must have been before you starved and subjugated the aboriginal population to steal their land!
Go straight to h*ll canadian sheeple and take that installed globalist elitist with you.
“For the common good.” How many indoctinated Canadians fell for that line of pig swill during the scam-demic? But when it comes to locking up convicted murderers and rapists, or deporting illegal aliens to protect us “for the common good”, well no that mantra runs contrary to their rights and freedoms! How about the effort to promote our energy industry, without which a country cannot survive, by building pipelines to avail ourselves of the wealth of oil we have to take advantage “for the common good”, no we can’t do that because one province objects. The “for the common good” only works for grifters and shysters who dictate what the ‘common good’ is to advance their own interests.