Oh No, Canada

What would you think if you had a neighbor who gave out the code to your front door to everybody they knew, and then your house was broken into and you were robbed blind? What about if that same neighbor helped facilitate the sale of deadly drugs to your children, and one of your children died of a drug overdose? Not only would you consider that person to be the worst neighbor ever, you’d also think that he should be arrested for aiding and abetting felonious criminal activity. The United States of America currently has two neighbors like that – Mexico and Canada. They both have been helping with the mass illegal immigration into our country who are not only committing violent crimes, such as rape and murder, but are also robbing our social services blind. They both have been facilitating the smuggling and sale of deadly fentanyl in our country, which is killing over 100,000 of our citizens every year.

Those are our neighbors. They have been actively participating in the destruction of our country. So, when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood up this past week before the start of the Invictus Games, and gave a speech to American athletes, saying, "We all stand proudly together. We all believe in a future where we have values and a friendship that endures the test of time. We have stood together for generations and Canada and Canadians will never stop fighting for the friendship that unites our two countries through tough times and through the best times in the world. Americans are our friends, always. And we are yours." Don’t believe a word of it. Canada’s actions speak much louder than Trudeau’s empty words.

Canada desperately needs America to be their friends, but they don’t really care about being friends to America. If Canada was truly America’s friend, it would not be colluding with China to poison America’s youth with deadly fentanyl. If Canada was truly America’s friend, it wouldn’t allow illegal immigrants into their country with the express purpose of funneling them into the United States to steal jobs and commit crimes. In order to have a friend, you need to be a friend. And Canada has not been much of a friend to the United States in a very long time. They enjoy everything that America gives to them like military protection and bolstering their economy through free trade, but that is where it ends for Canada – what they get from us. That’s it.

After Canada beat the United States in hockey on Thursday night, Justin Trudeau said, “you can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game,” and scoffed at the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state in the USA. But in the reality, Canada is our 51st state. If a country is as dependent on a neighboring country for its very survival as much Canada is on the United States, it is a de facto state of that country whether they admit it or not.

Now, Canadians are talking big against Donald Trump and America because of the threat of tariffs. They even booed our National Anthem prior to the first meeting of the USA hockey team vs Canada last week. Many of the citizens of Canada have vowed to no longer purchase American goods. Canada has 30 million people; the United States is 360 million people. The GDP of Canada is less than the GDP of California. It is less than 10% of the United States GDP. Canada’s economy needs American consumers 10 times more than America’s economy needs Canadian consumers. Canada wouldn’t survive economically without the United States. Even their vaunted National Hockey League would disappear into obscurity if not for the United States. 25 of the 32 NHL hockey teams are located in the United States. The net valuation of all 32 NHL hockey teams is $42.4 billion. The United States teams make up 74% of that valuation, or $31.3 billion. Take the United States away, the NHL collapses. Take the United States away, and Canada might very well collapse.

As an American, I don’t mind that Canada’s security and economy are dependent on the United States. When I start caring is when that same country who is so dependent on us for their existence and prosperity, is cutting deals with our enemies to hurt our country. If you do not want American tariffs, then start acting like the friend to America that your Prime Minister just claimed you are fighting to be, instead of actively trying to destroy America.

So, Canada you’re not a friend of ours. You haven’t been acting like a friend of ours for a very long time. A true friend would show some gratitude to the country upon whom its very existence is completely dependent. But Justin Trudeau is a communist, and he would rather cut deals with communist China, and have them take over America, then be a great friend to the capitalist country who is really the best friend that you could ever have.

So Canadian citizens, you can throw away all of their American made products. It means nothing to us. Only about 2% of our GDP comes from selling goods to Canada. You are not that important. And this delusion of grandeur that you are displaying is going to have really bad consequences for you down the road. Canada, you don’t understand how small and weak and insignificant you really are as a country. Nobody really cares about Canada. Nobody does. If Canada ceased to exist tomorrow, nobody would give a damn except for hockey fans.

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.