I’m truly honoured to be a part of the SDA family. The collective wisdom of SDA commenters is clearly far better than all of the politicians in Ottawa. Here’s a perfect example, posted by Trodwell yesterday:

The Liberals don’t want to fix the problem (and there IS a problem, and there IS a fix). They want this issue. They think they can run against Trump by re-running the same “moral panic” play they ran during Covid. And the mindless sheep that “vote left for total self-destruction” in Canada over and over again just might give it to them, same as they did the last time.

Want the answer? It’s right there in Trump’s executive order. ““The Secretary of Homeland Security shall inform the President of any circumstances that, in the opinion of the Secretary of Homeland Security, indicate that the Government of Canada has taken ADEQUATE steps to alleviate this public health crisis through cooperative enforcement actions. Upon the President’s determination of SUFFICIENT action to alleviate the crisis, the tariffs described in section 2 of this order shall be removed.”

All it would take would be to man up and begin to take meaningful steps to secure the border and to clamp down on illegal immigration and drug smuggling, which would be immensely good for both Canada and the US (and which would also begin to solve the problem of illegal handguns being smuggled north from the US, which is ANOTHER problem Trudeau doesn’t want to solve because it’s easier to justify confiscating guns from licensed Canadian firearms owners if he can lie and pretend that they’re the source of illegal guns, not the U.S.). At the same time, it might not be a bad idea to try to tackle the tsunami of Chinese drug money laundering through the cesspool of B.C. that is increasingly making its way west. Or it would be a good idea if the Canadian left wasn’t a subsidiary of the CPC.

But the Liberals – and I include the corpulent moron Doug Ford in that abject mob – don’t want to fix these problems. They’d rather profit politically from them, from the resultant economic ruin, and from the corpses of the dead Canadians (and Americans) that are the grimly obvious end-state. They’d rather rule over the ash heap, and in the process, “turn us all to beggars ’cause they’re easier to please.” Canada isn’t Trump’s target; his target is the criminally incompetent morons that we insist on electing, and the civilizational chaos they and their ilk are causing around the world. Fortunately, that problem has an easy fix too, and the sooner the better.

Related: Jamie MacMaster, a longtime SDA commenter, shared this op-ed he wrote back in 2009.