Following President Trump's threats of tariffs and annexation, Canadians are displaying a surge in patriotic sentiment. From boycotting American products to booing the national anthem at sporting events, many are embracing their Canadian identity and rallying behind their country. Political experts attribute this rise in patriotism to a combination of economic concerns and anger towards Trump's policies.
After hearing the news that U.S. President Donald Trump planned to impose 25 per centon Canadian exports, Miksha shelved his plans to apply to Boston University, Yale and Harvard for graduate studies.
“If you look at people booing the Star Spangled Banner at sporting events, circulating information about how to boycott American-made products, generally, voicing their frustration at the Trump administration, it’s pretty unmistakable that there’s been a rise in patriotic sentiment,” said Edward Schatz, political science professor at the University of Toronto.
A Leger online poll that surveyed 1,520 Canadians between Dec. 6 and 9, found just 13 per cent wanted Canada to become part of the United States, compared with 82 per cent who rejected the notion. Rightly or wrongly, he said, Canadians feel like they’ve held up their end of the bargain reached when the countries signed their 1988 free trade agreement. Now they feel taken advantage of.
“It’s rally around the leader time,” said Stewart Prest, political science lecturer at the University of British Columbia. “There is a saying that politics ends at the water’s edge – that there’s a sense of a need to pull together and represent the country with the united front . … We have seen any number of examples of that now.”
“Maybe it’s less to do with different provinces and more to do with different kinds of livelihoods,” he said. “But everywhere, what you’ve seen is a shift in that direction of ‘Aha! We’re all Canadians. We’re going to disagree, even loudly sometimes, over the best way to counter these kinds of threats. But we’re all in this together.’”
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