An American Warning to Canadians

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ALL CANADIANS....

Many years ago, one of your nation's greatest singers, Burton Cummings, sang these words: "Stand tall.  Don't you fall. Don't you go do something you'll regret later."  The time has come for Canadians to stand tall, not fall, and not do something you'll regret later.  Sure, politeness is nice.  But there is a difference between politeness and apathy, and bartering away your freedom to a bully for a temporary prosperity will not go well for you in the end.

The problem, as many of you know, is this:  The U.S. Government is demanding that Canadians give up control of their media and financial support of their own arts.  Doing the bidding of what Trump calls "the fake media," Trump's own administration is insisting that Canada open its media markets to big American media companies, which would then set up shop in local Canadian markets.  Eventually, as Trudeau knows well, Canadians would have no control of their airwaves.  This fact would lead to the filtering of relevant and necessary content, and this filtering would lead to Canadians eventually having access only to the information deemed appropriate by the foreign media giants.  In the United States, the "news" deemed appropriate by the media giants consists of gossip,  political snickering at the mention of certain ideas, virtually no real investigative reporting, constant hype, the use of buzzwords designed to instill fear and divisiveness, and a lot of sensational weather-related broadcasting (e.g., Florence, "a storm of biblical proportions").  Then there is the non-coverage of  certain politicians and issues.  News broadcasting in Canada would shrink to a small percentage of its current time allotment.  Gone would be the reporting of anything that really matter to Canadians.  Pretty much, everything that makes Canadian news reporting good would be gone.

Control of information would then naturally lead to control of thought.  Next to go would be Canadian health care - which would be juicy booty for American health care companies.  After all, the hospitals and equipment would already be there, having already been paid for by Canadian taxpayers.  American health care companies would move in, smiling and promising the world, but people currently covered under Canada's system would find themselves uncovered.  Canadians might even welcome the new privatized system at first, having heard such wonderful things on the American-owned stations.  But once in need of health care, Canadians would find that their costs would skyrocket, coverage would be reduced, and insurance companies would deny their claims time and time again (many years ago, an expose revealed that one American health care company's practice was to deny a claim eight times before paying).  Canadian taxes might decrease slightly, but insurance costs would more than eat up any tax savings.  Currently in the U.S., many Americans would rather risk dying than be bankrupted by medical bills.  Crazy?  Exaggeration?  Consider this: Children's Hospital in Phoenix charges more than $25,000 for a single dose of scorpion anti-venom.  Eventually, of course, many Canadians would go bankrupt -- but how likely would the smiling faces on the American-owned stations in Toronto or Calgary or Montreal be to report this story with all of the detail necessary to convey the scope of the tragedy?  Not very likely, especially since their programs would be sponsored by those very same health care companies.  Of course, most healthy Canadians would be blissfully unaware of what's going on unless they have personal experience.. and even that personal experience would likely be considered "bad luck" and not indicative of the larger unreported problem.  That's life.  That's what Canadians can expect if Canada gives in to this idea that American investors with yachts and jets should profit from the sickest and most desperate of Canadians.

Give the U.S. and inch of Canadian sovereignty, and it will take a yard.  Canadians, get tough!  Stand tall!  Don't you fall for it.  Don't go and do something you'll regret later.