Canada Inside or Outside the USA?
From a Military Colony of the United States to a Full Partner in Fortress America
Having watched Zionist war mongers conduct accelerated genocide in the quest to create a “Greater Israel” in a compact portion of the globe, it comes as something of a shock for us Canadians to find ourselves inhabiting a huge expanse of contested territory in North America.
President Donald Trump has for weeks been announcing that he desires a Greater USA by absorbing Canada and Greenland. If Canada was to become the “51st state” as Donald Trump proposes, the USA would extend from the Gulf of America to the North Pole.
The discussion about the transformation of Canada into a new US state was framed by Trump’s briefly realized threat of imposing a 25% tariff on goods imported from Canada. The government of Canada responded with a 25% tariff on goods going the other way. Then a truce was negotiated on 3 February providing for a 30-day reprieve to be accompanied by the Canadian government’s implementation of a high-tech border patrol under the guidance of a “Fentanyl Czar.”
Fentanyl is an extremely potent opioid that often kills those taking the drug. The USA is enforcing strict prohibitions on the use, production or distribution of fentanyl. In Canada, however, the drug tends to be accommodated but especially so in British Columbia. In BC fentanyl is subject to a controversial policy of “decriminalization.”
In discussing his negotiations with Justin Trudeau, Trump repeated in the Oval Office that the US President
“would like to see Canada become the 51st state.“If people wanted to play the game right, it would be 100 per cent certain that they would become a state,” he said. “A lot of people don’t like to play the game because they don’t have a threshold of pain, and there would be some pain, but not a lot.”
Some Canadians would no doubt be interested in exploring the possibility of Canada becoming a 51st state. As shall be discussed below, this interest is most lively in my home province of Alberta. The history of this oil-rich province on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains is such that a discussion is fast developing around the notion of transforming Alberta into a 51st US state. Another possible option would be for Alberta to become an independent country with a special relationship with the USA.
From the perspective of the US Armed Forces, Canada already is much like a 51st state of the USA. To be more precise, Canada is essentially already a military colony of the United States. Canadians are closely monitored by intelligence agencies in the USA. The rule seems to be that as long as Canadians don’t bother or menace those in charge of the occupying military power, we will be more or less left to our own devices in most matters.
Does Trump think that by adding Canada to the USA, he would be helping to Make America Great Again? What is he after? Canada is one of the richest countries in the world in terms of untapped natural resources.
What would happen if Trump tried to entice Canadians to join the USA rather than bully us into following his dictates? What are the chances that Canada could ever be made to be Great Again after the massive structural problems displayed in our federal institutions during the decade when Justin Trudeau so ruthlessly abused his Office as the Prime Minister of Canada?
The Making Of Canada as a Military Colony Under USNORTHCOM
Trump is not the first US leader to seek the incorporation of Canada into the United States. In the War of 1812, Tecumseh’s Indian Confederacy helped protect the absorption of Canada into the US republic. Then after the US Civil War a Metis leader by the name of Louis Riel was briefly in charge of a provisional government that set the course of future North American history. He decided to go along with the westward expansion of the Crown’s Dominion of Canada rather than give the nod to Washington DC to annex Western Canada.
The outcome was that the victorious Union Forces were not directed northward to seize the territory of the future prairie provinces. What did transpire, however, was the US purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867. The aim of the transaction was for the USA to acquire an Arctic outpost to start the process of annexing British North America. Then in the 1920s and 1930s the US government made a plan to invade and ingest Canada. That plan was withdrawn in 1939 with the inception of the Second World War.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-has-canada-become-the-51st-state-of-the-usa/5878153
The outcome of WWII transformed the United States of America into the world’s pre-eminent power. The USA had most of the world’s gold. Its home territory, home population, and home industrial infrastructure had not been ripped apart by warfare as was the case throughout much of Europe and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had paid most of the price for defeating the Hitlerian National Socialists of Europe whereas the USA claimed most of the spoils of victory over the Axis powers.
The world’s primary superpower displayed its willingness to govern by force deploying its exclusive control of atomic technology to annihilate a part of Japan’s civilian population. As many see it, the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was meant to send an intimidating signal to the world and especially the leadership of the Soviet Union.
The US alliance with the Communist superpower in WWII. During WWII the government of Franklin Roosevelt provided high-level military support of the Soviet Union which benefited greatly from the alliance. Then the Soviet Union put behind an “Iron Curtain,” and… presto, the Soviet Union became the main US enemy.
In 1949, the soldiers led by the Communist Chinese revolutionary, Mao Zedong, emerged from a longstanding Civil War. In 1949 Mao emerged to instigate and organize the most deep and lasting industrial transformation of the world’s most heavily-populated country. Chinese civilization is old, deep, and continuous over many thousands of years. Chinese civilization is one of humanity’s bed rocks.
That industrial revolution in China continues its continuous ascent to this day. In China Capitalism gained a formidable Communist partner. The appearance in 1958 of the 4,000 horse power Diesel Locomotive from a Chinese manufacturer pointed towards the fast trains of today.
The extension of this ongoing surges of Chinese industrial achievement and creativity continues to move forward very quickly. In comparison the Congressional chosenites of America are looking increasingly tattered, shabby, backward, confused, angry and lusting for mass-slaughter warfare.
Part of the USA’s imperial triumph included the informal incorporation of much of the old British Empire based on its global exercise of military superiority headquartered in the Pentagon, a massive imperial complex completed in 1943.
The government of Canada formed the third polity in what was then known as known as the North Atlantic Triangle.
With a strong presence in both camps, Canada was able to play a very significant role in Anglo-American relations. Like the USA, Canada quietly opened its borders to German talent developed on the National Socialist side of WWII. The result was to help edify the scientific and technological prowess of North American enterprises.
The United States and Canada both thrived in this new status quo whereas Great Britain had to resolve itself to a heavily-indebted future as well as to a greatly diminished role in global affairs. Winston Churchill may have won the war against the Axis powers but, in the process, he lost the British Empire. The British Empire persists, nevertheless, in the way global banking incorporates tax havens and the top levels of organized crime.
The new status quo in North America reached a kind of pinnacle in 1970s before the assault on indigenous industries and workers to relocate manufacturing industry especially to Indonesia and then China. Starting in earnest during the Presidency of Bill Clinton in the 1990s, this same process of industrial transfer was extended to Mexico creating another frontier of destabilization in the course of Donald Trump’s surprisingly aggressive assertion of a Greater USA.
To rejuvenate the vitality of the military-based enterprises after the demise of the Soviet Union and the Cold War, a new enemy was required. That new enemy was supplied on 9/11 when a false flag event in Manhattan and at the Pentagon was purposely misrepresented to provide for an open-ended Global War on Terror.
Unlike most wars based conflict between peoples and/or between governments, the War on Terror was targeted against an ill-defined aspect of life— “terror”— that can never be defeated especially through militarism. A “War on Terror” provides a formula for never ending warfare against a virtually limitless array of possible targets. It is a formula for never ending war profiteering on a grand scale.
In the short term, the War on Terror provided the apparent justification for the shared military apparatus of Israel and the United States to team up even more tightly to advance the shared agenda of a “Greater Israel.”
Many changes were rapidly ushered in after 9/11 in the name of fighting the terrorism of Islamic jihad first represented by the CIA’s assets, Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. In 2002 Donald Rumsfeld, US Defence Secretary, announced one of the changes done in the name of waging the War on Terror. On behalf of the US government, Rumsfeld announced unilaterally that the US government had placed all of Canada under the military authority of the US Northern Command.
This alteration involved an assault on the already-circumscribed latitude of Canadian sovereignty on a continent increasing regarded in its totality by US officialdom as the American “Homeland.” In 2002 George W. Bush created an amalgamation of federal departments in the USA. The result was the Department of Homeland Security. This new arm of militaristic government from within was created with a very large budget and very expansive jurisdictional reach.
It seems the demands of the “Homeland Security” industry created after the 9/11 false flag can no longer tolerate anything approaching an independent Canada with the capacity to express the full extent of its citizens self-determinations. As I see it, the infatuation of Trudeau and others in the Canadian government with China, which is increasingly perceived in some branches of the United State government as its primary enemy, must be subject to intense scrutiny by many US agencies including the Department of Homeland Security and Northern Command.
In 2002 the United States government granted itself the capacity to move its troops together with it military hardware and software throughout the totality of Canadian lands, airspace, inland waterways, and surrounding seas. The headquarters of the Northern Command is at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
After the creation of USNORTHCOM there was a timid effort to acknowledge and integrate the pre-existing function of NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defence Command. Created in 1958, NORAD emerged from an era when North America’s air space was still considered the joint responsibility of both Canada and the United States. The supposed failure of NORAD on 9/11 has to this day never been seriously addressed. The fate of NORAD helps clarify the downgrading of Canada in the global hierarchy of the informal American Empire.
[On NORAD and 9/11 see Webster Griffin Tarpley, 911, Synthetic Terror: Made in the USA (Joshua Tree California, Progressive Press, 2011), Chapter 9]
Canada can no longer described as the best friend and greatest ally of the United States. Both those positions have been pre-empted by Israel.
After this massive pre-emption of Canadian sovereignty beneath the military authority of the United States, various cosmetic procedures were set in motion after 9/11 to disguise Canada’s loss of sovereign authority in terms of its treatment by the US military-industrial complex. The failing prowess in warfare of the world’s most expensive fighting machine, is another factor to be taken into consideration.
The processes of facilitating so-called Joint Task Forces were meant to extend face-saving gestures to acknowledge a secondary role for the military, intelligence and national security branches of Canada’s own governance. The web site of the US Northern Command, USNORTHCOM, explains that “the Joint Task Forces are subordinate to the command.”
The other side of the US Armed Force’s takeover of military operations covering the world’s second largest country was the apparent willingness of the people and successive governments of Canada to make major cuts to military expenditures.
Did this process proceed on the basis of informed consent by the citizenry or was the growing subordination Canada’s Armed Forces to further US dominance and control a topic purposely hidden from public view? Would greater expenditure on the Canadian Armed Forces result in a more independent foreign policy enabling our country to, for instance, break free from the straight jacket of US-dominated NATO?
The China Connection
A key driver of Donald Trump’s criticism of the Canadian government lies in its largely obscured and secretive relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as well as some of the CCP’s more shady international extensions. President Trump’s initial charge was that the Canadian government has been a complicit partner who has allowed the channeling of a deadly flow of Chinese fentanyl into the United States.
The issue, of course, is deeply tied up with the Chinese government’s covert infiltration into the governments of both Canada and the United States. This CCP infiltration has been especially deep during the terms of both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and as well as that of Joe Biden during the latter’s tenure as both President and VP.
Sam Cooper has been closely following role of Canadian drug dealers and complicit officials in the transport from China of the ingredients for fentanyl production. As outlined in his book, Wilful Blindness, Cooper reports that these ingredients are transformed in British Columbia into a more refined products that he says are widely exported internationally including into the United States.
According to Cooper, this class of transaction is deeply integrated with the organized crime of Chinese Triads operating especially aggressively in Vancouver and Toronto. The real estate markets in these cities and others have become important venues for the laundering of dirty narco-money.
The growing role of Canada as a narco-state is adding to the apocalyptic effect of fentanyl on a growing portion of the population. In British Columbia the possession of all formally illicit drugs has been “decriminalized.”
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/overdose/decriminalization
As Sabrina Maddeau at the National Post has observed,
“Canada’s government and public health officials still prefer to address the opioid crisis largely as a health problem, with supports for mental health and addiction. While these are certainly needed, they downplay the role of organized crime and how it contributes to the crisis.”
In the United States the urgency of the effort to block the flow of fentanyl and the rise of fentanyl addiction seems many-faceted and intense.
This export to Canada of ingredients to manufacture fentanyl for wide distribution must be seen in the context of a complex web of interactions with China. In Canada’s case, these interactions extend deeply into the machinery of influence peddling, electioneering and the funding of party politics.
Spurts of information concerning the pervasiveness of the corruption keep emerging and then being shoved aside in many political venues, including in Canadian parliamentary procedures.
A major fentanyl superlab was discovered outside the small town of Falkland BC with the makings of about 100,000,000 individual doses of fentanyl. Only one arrest was reported.
It seems unwise to hang the future of Canada-US relations so heavily on conflicting accounts of how much Chinese-originated fentanyl is being prepared in Canada for southward channeling into the United States.
The ties between the governments of China and Canada extend to military interactions. Members of the Peoples’s Liberation Army (PLA) have done winter training in Canada. In its own report the Canadian government indicated
In January 2018, the Canadian Armed Forces sent a delegation to China to observe winter training conducted by the People’s Liberation Army.
In February 2018, the People’s Liberation Army sent a delegation to Canada to observe winter survival training conducted by the Canadian Armed Forces.
Moreover a number of PLA officials, including Generals, have received training and attended conferences at the Royal Military College in Kingston.
A 34 page report was sent by a branch of the Canadian government to Ezra Levant at Rebel News. A report on the document was published in December of 2020 at the Daily Mail. The headline emphasized that “the PLA was sending spies not just soldiers to Canada through the partnership.”
The report concluded
Levant told Tucker Carlson Thursday night that the cold weather training at Ontario is just one example of an expansive partnership between Canada and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.
The two nations were engaged in 18 different joint projects in 2019, he said, including troops being sent between the countries and Canada providing training to high-ranking Chinese generals.
'It is a shock to Canadians,' Levant said. 'That cold-weather warfare you are referring to is just one of 18 different joint projects the Canadian armed forces had with the People's Liberation Army in 2019 alone.
'Canada is training one and two star Chinese generals in our war colleges, training lieutenants and majors, commanders.'
The New York Post reported that when Trudeau’s staff were told that concern was expressed in the United States about the close ties developing between the PLA and the Canadian Armed Forces, Trudeau’s advisers pushed back and said, “Is this just the Trump administration, or is anyone else worried about it?’”
The truth is that we in the West have been on a bit of a roller coaster ride trying the figure out how it is that a Communist country somehow emerged as the world’s primary factory for the manufacturing of commodities facilitating the largest flows of capitalist transactions.
When is it considered bold and creative to enter into closer ties with businesses connected to the Communist Party of China and when is it considered an act of sedition? On the Chinese side it must sometimes seem that their achievements in science, technological innovation, and economic productivity, while once a magnet for investment, have become a cause for hostility as the West falls subject to China’s comparative advantages.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-23448722
This issue is bound to loom increasingly large as the Trump administration seeks to move from income tax to tariff payments as a core element of government revenue in the United States. The dust up over China and fentanyl in Canada is probably a prelude of more to come as the West’s failing superpower grapples with its growing inability to compete with China on an even playing field in sector after sector.
In spite of this development, however, the neocon faction that remains well entrenched in the US Uniparty continues to imagine some kind of US-led military victory over China. This kind of adversarial thinking does not allow room for Trudeau’s flirtation with the People’s Liberation Army as some kind of ally of the Canada’s Armed Forces.
David Rockefeller helped lead the way in the 1970s to China’s accommodation of global capitalism. The process began with China’s embrace of aspects of the US banking system. In the final decades of the 20th century these developments gave rise to the deindustrialization of North America, a process that was meant to deprive factory workers of their well-payed unionized jobs with benefits.
Donald Trump led many of his most legendary rallies in rust belt communities where former employees of major American companies lost their jobs, then their homes, and then their domestic viability. This cataclysmic fall from grace; this massive loss of good jobs with benefits, to no jobs and no hope, has been a big part of fuelling the opioid crisis culminating now in the fentanyl disaster.
This process of industrializing China and de-industrializing North America generated vast stock market gains together with the generation of huge fortunes often devoted to the purchase of political influence.
Some of the winners in these fairly recent developments sought to rise above any allegiance to their home nations and even above the law in increasingly chaotic societies where everything is for sale including the commodified verdicts of the corrupt judges. In the process, lawfare continues to displace the rule of law.
The shift of manufacturing from North America to China and other poorer countries with less government regulation gave capitalism another rich infusion of energy. The global shift in the situating of manufacturing enterprise generated massive profits approaching the scale of former colonial ventures. These ventures could extend to the transformation of whole continents and hemispheres into what I describe in my book of the same name as, Earth into Property.
Like the colonization of continents, the relocation of manufacturing enterprise from one part of the world to another involved playing fast and loose with laws and human rights on an enormous scale. Many eggs were broken in the making of the global omelette that is transforming the lives of billions of people.
Donald Trump would do well to keep these perspective near the forefront as he deals with what can be seen as a reversal of the Opium Wars directed by Britain against China in the mid-1800s. Apparently some interests with a strong presence in China are transporting, with the compliance of Canada and Mexico, addictive opioids into North America. Apparently the US government is facing obstacles in its efforts, real or theatrical, to prevent addictions and deaths caused by the synthetic opioid know as fentanyl.
Imagining a Canada Inside Fortress America
Donald Trump spoke in somewhat vague terms about the unregulated movement of criminals, terrorists and such from Canada into the United States. No doubt Canadians were surprised to hear Donald Trump speak about the Canada-US border in much the same way as he has spoken for years about the unregulated movement of migrants across the Mexico-US border.
It is hard to fathom the scale of the encouraged rush of many branches of humanity into Canada. There is a lack of reliable statistics to describe this process involving a wide array of legal or illegal statuses on the part of those who enter Canada. Many intend to stay here or to find their way into the United States.
The population of Canada is exploding by the millions every year as the unemployment rates continue to escalate. Those responsible for this development are in no hurray to explain the true nature of the changes underway. Quite clearly the objective is to replace the “Old Stock” population with newcomers who might be persuaded to vote for the discredited Liberal Party.
This pattern of overwhelming the native-born inhabitants with immigrants is undermining national consolidation everywhere, that is except for the Jewish nation of Israel. With US backing, Israel is pursuing a policy of chosenite ethnic cleansing at a time when everyone else is being pressured to accommodate and intermingle with masses of immigrants from varied cultural backgrounds.
One aspect of the growth in Canada is composed of heavily subsidized “non-residents.” The number of “non-permanent residents” in Canada rose from 2% of the population to 7% during the last decade when Trudeau has been in power.
In the last decade Canada has fallen in status to something like a failed state. As Elizabeth Nickson puts it in her shocking portrayal of Canada’s rapid descent into a “post-national” basket case, “We are a broken country. Everyone who understands knows this…. Dissent is ignored. Or jailed.”
The economy has been pushed into free fall as the Trudeau government invokes climate change, net zero and other UN/Club of Rome fantasies to block the development of extractive industries in a country extremely rich in natural resources.
Alberta’s Preston Manning explains this phenomenon as follows:
“For nine years the Trudeau government has most often treated the resource sectors — energy, agriculture, mining, forestry and the fisheries — as relics from the past and even environmental liabilities. It has opposed or delayed every major infrastructure project designed to increase our energy export potential — vetoing Northern Gateway in 2016, stalling Energy East until it was cancelled in 2017, making little effort to overcome roadblocks to pipeline construction in B.C. and imposing unconstitutional barriers to petroleum production through legislation such as Bill C-69, also known as the “No More Pipelines Act.”
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzQZTCgLKLWtgWGTPXDrMLZFQqzl
It is estimates that 4,000 organized crime groups have taken root in Canada.
https://vancouversun.com/news/crime/organized-crime-western-security-threat-canada-report
The rapid growth of a criminal component has apparently affected Donald Trump’s assessment of the flow of people coming into the United States across the northern border. In the words of Michael Rubin, “Under Trudeau’s Leadership, Canada Has Become a Security Liability and a Hotbed for Radicalism and Terrorism.”
One example of this attribute is the backing the Trudeau government gives to the Khalistan separatist movement including its armed component. Its Indian opponents are also sometimes armed. The Khalistan movement is an initiative of some Sikhs who seek to create their own polity in Punjab to gain independence from India.
This support for Khalistan stems from Trudeau’s debt to the NDP federal leader, Jagmeet Singh. As the Leader of a Party with a minority of seats in Parliament, Trudeau has depended on Singh, a Khalistani separatist himself, to keep the PM in power. Michael Rubin writes,
“After unidentified gunmen shot down a Khalistan movement terrorist in British Columbia, Trudeau blamed Delhi [the capital of India] and claimed falsely that U.S. intelligence backed his accusation. He later acknowledged there was no smoking gun. Much more likely, the killing was due to intra-Sikh violence. Today, Canada is the international epicenter of Khalistan money laundering.”
https://www.meforum.org/mef-online/trump-must-confront-canadas-sympathetic-treatment-of-terrorism
Some Canadians are welcoming the prospect of Canada becoming the 51st US state. One of them is Bruce Pardy, a Law Professor at Queen’s University in Ontario. Prof. Pardy participated in early 2022 in some of the seminars organized by the Truckers’ Freedom Convoy movement during the time of the parking protest in Ottawa.
Pardy’s view of the restrictive and authoritarian nature of Canada’s form of government intensified in the course of his experience of representing clients opposed to the COVID injections, mandates and other restrictions. He draws on this experience to support his conclusion that the US Constitution is much more freedom friendly than the British North American Act that gave rise to the Dominion of Canada in 1867.
Prof. Pardy believes that the monarchical form of government that subjects Canadians to Crown sovereignty necessarily creates a repressive environment whose draconian nature was well illustrated throughout the Covidian debacle. While many national governments made the same set of wrong decisions in response to the claim that a deadly contagion was menacing the lives of the entire global population, the handling of the manufactured crisis in Canada was particularly repressive. https://probemedia.ca/2025/01/20/becoming-the-51st-state/
As I see it, part of Prof Pardy’s conclusion stems from what we learned about the severe limitations in Canada’s form of government that made it impossible to remove Justin Trudeau from Office even though he did not command a majority of MPs in Parliament. The government of Canada has few redeeming features especially under the authority of a globalist Prime Minister who took his signals from Davos, not from the people he was elected to represent.
In a two-part essay in Substack, Julius Ruechel also advocated that the Canadians should take up Donald Trump on his invitation to the join the US Republic as the 51st state. Ruechel presents his preferred option as the enticing opportunity to become a major player in building up what he calls Fortress America.
This opportunity points away from the prospect of entrapment “in the Global Socialist plague that is rotting out the heart of Western Civilization.” This rot is integral to the authoritarian policies and dangerous demeanour of JustinTrudeau. This rot is also evident in the false economics of his would-be successor, the climate change huckster of WEF operative, Mark Carney.
Ruechel writes,
What Trump is offering is blunt — right out in the open — but it not only serves America’s national interests but also provides a lifeline to Canadians who are trapped within their failing country. Mano a mano — a real deal between equals.
The Politicization of the Office of the Governor-General and Justin Trudeau’s Dubious Constitutional Status as Prime Minister of Canada
If Canada is to persist in its present form, I see one towering problem in our current constitutional arrangement. That problem has to do with the powers and role of the Governor-General. The making and ratification of Canadian laws is 100% dependent on obtaining the signature of the Governor-General, the current embodiment of the imperial legacy of the most extensive empire in all of human history.
The theory is that the Governor-General is the delegate of the imperial sovereign in Great Britain. The Governors-General, like the Kings and Queens above them, are supposed to eschew politics and conduct themselves in an independent fashion according to strict adherence to constitutional principles, some of them unwritten and also very ancient.
This ideal, however, is out of step with our times. It is inconsistent with how the world works these days. The fact is that Governor-Generals are political appointees of the Prime Minister. Canadian Prime Ministers tend to choose their GGs to embody their own political brand and style. They tend to choose political friends who will comply with their directives.
Given the political nature of the selection process and of the political environment the GGs inhabit, it is thoroughly to be expected that will be subjected to great pressure to deliver what the prime ministers that selected them, want.
The Office of the GG has been particularly politicized since 2021 when Justin Trudeau selected Mary Simon to be Governor-General. Mary Simon is Inuit from northern Quebec, a region now known as Nunavik. The larger Inuit territory in the Canadian arctic is known as Nunavut.
Mary Simon worked for the Northern Services of CBC and went on to develop a very rich career in public service including as a diplomat in the Inuit Circumpolar Conference. There are Inuit in the five countries encircling the North Pole.
The Inuit Circumpolar Council provides an important forum for Inuit people and also in the countries where they live, namely Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Russia.
Between 1999 and 2002 Mary Simon was Canadian Ambassador to Denmark.
Mary Simon has a large staff with whom she often travels.
GG Many Simon was criticized in 2022 for her “high-flying ways” to the tune of $2.7 million for travel expenses.
The choosing of the Governor-General should not be left up to the Prime Minister of Canada. The GG’s role in Canada is not based on hereditary principles as it is in Great Britain. It is a big stretch to imagine that the people picked to be Governors-General will favour Crown impartiality over the political pressure coming from politicians on the make.
If the GG was chosen by a tribunal of learned sages known for their wisdom and impartiality, perhaps the appointment process would not carry the same aura of political patronage that is currently inescapable due to the present arrangement for choosing the imperial Crown’s Canadian representative.
The present system does an injustice to Canadians and also to Canadian Prime Ministers who sometimes require serious checks on their actions. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau provided a classic illustration of the problem. He classically abused the institution of prorogation to suit the Liberal Party’s political agenda. In doing so he has further politicized the Office of the Governor-General weakening Canada in the process.
In the present term of Prime Minister Trudeau, there have been a lot of extenuating nuances created for the GG. For instance the COVID debacle had many implications for how the Canadian government was run. In the final analysis the GG should have had a role in approving or rejecting these alterations.
Another extenuating circumstance involve Trudeau’s conditions of office as the prime minister of a minority government. Minority government situations involve many possible complexities with significant implications for Governors-General.
There are many constitutional nuances attending the GG’s decision to allow the prorogation of Parliament in order to facilitate a political convention to choose a new Liberal leader. Mary Simon could have asked for Trudeau to have resigned on the spot or to have told him to return to Parliament for a confidence vote in the House of Commons. Accepting Trudeau’s statement that he “intended” to resign in due course created many uncertainties that should have no place in such a delicate constitutional mix of factors.
GG Mary Simon can be accused of choosing political expediency over adherence to constitutional principles. The constitutional procedure and practice relevant here are as follows:
An essential feature of parliamentary government is that the Prime Minister and the Cabinet are responsible to, or must answer to, the House of Commons as a body for their actions and must enjoy the support and the confidence of a majority of the Members of that Chamber to remain in office. This is commonly referred to as the confidence convention.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/marleaumontpetit/DocumentViewer.aspx?Language=E&Sec=Ch02&Seq=3
Justin Trudeau continuing role as Prime Minister of Canada violates this principle. Trudeau does not have the confidence of a majority of the Liberal Party MPs let alone of the majority of MPs in Parliament. Therefore, Trudeau’s government is in a sense a provisional government of dubious legitimacy.
Another wonderful and timely essay Tony. Well done, glad you incorporated some of the things we discussed by phone the other day such as commentary by Bruce Pardy and of course reference to the Opium Wars. Keep up the great work.
The idea has been around for years that Canada will break up. Western Canada is not happy. I recall in the 1970's reading this in mainstream rags. Heck, Cecil Rhodes wanted what Trump wants-probably. Forget about the Royals focus on the power of Union.
To and for the establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom, and of colonisation by British subjects of all lands where the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labour and enterprise, and especially the occupation by British settlers of the entire Continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the Valley of the Euphrates, the Islands of Cyprus and Candia, the whole of South America, the Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the Malay Archipelago, the seaboard of China and Japan, the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire, the inauguration of a system of Colonial representation in the Imperial Parliament which may tend to weld together the disjointed members of the Empire and, finally, the foundation of so great a Power as to render wars impossible and promote the best interests of humanity.
Cecil Rhodes said in his 1877 will.