This article explores the concerning rhetoric surrounding Canada from Donald Trump and his supporters, highlighting how it constructs a new social imaginary that threatens Canadian sovereignty.
Perhaps the most vociferous and most influential acolyte working to further Mr. Trump’s narrative against Canada is Fox News host Jesse Watters. The same day Mr. Trump mused about erasing the border, Mr. Watters angrily asked Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who was on Mr. Watters’s prime time show to argue against tariffs: “What’s your problem with the United States absorbing Canada ?” After Mr. Ford said Canada wasn’t for sale, Mr. Watters became belligerent.
“You say Americans don’t have a problem with Canadians, and we don’t. But it seems you have a problem with us … I would consider it a privilege to be taken over by the United States of America,” Mr. Watters said to his almost three million viewers. , just as the Cassandra Project could have predicted, Watters laid bare the political psychology at the heart of the new social imaginary about Canada. With his right arm gesticulating and in an angry voice, he said, “The fact that they don’t want us to take them over, makes me want to invade. I want to quench my imperialist thirst.” Even though Mr. Trump did not mention Canada in his second inaugural address, his pledge to “once again consider” the United States as a “growing nation” that “expands its territory” signals that more serious attempts to erode Canada’s sovereignty can be expected
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