RED, WHITE & TRUE NORTH BLUES — A ‘F—ING’ SONG FOR CANADA’S ‘DON’T SCREW US’ GAME-ON DONNYBROOK
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION
Muskokans don’t take our rock for granite.
Canadians should do likewise, as the Americans are coming fast for what we’ve got. And what we hold dear to our red hearts.
The Canadian Shield is our bedrock. We’re built on it and have lived off it since pre-Confederation.
We are the “true North” — where 5 per cent of Ontarians live — including right here in Parry Sound-Muskoka.
Which, thanks to Trump’s tariffs, reminds us of the skin we have in this game and that we can play to our benefit with PS-M votes Feb. 27.
We have lots to lose and nothing to lose if we, too, don’t “stand up to a bully” — Canada’s “Public enemy No. 1.”
Who says we don’t give a nickel? You bet we do.
Rock on — let’s get ready to rumble.
Vulgarities and Trump’s trailer trash talk
It’s elbows up and language down.
When they go low, we go ….
Four-letter words and street fights have brought us to the lowest common(wealth) denominator and unstatesmen-like behaviour.
From Doug Ford’s tariff f-bomb — “… then the guy pulled out the knife and f–king yanked it into us.”
To: “Don’t screw with us,” from Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon, the public discourse has gone in the dumpster like a pair of street thugs in “knife fight,” to quote Canada’s UN Ambassdor Bob Rae.
More like a gun fight in the not OK corral.
One can only imagine what Trudeau Sr. would have told 47: “Fuddle-duddle!”
Border security should be protecting Canadians from guns due north, not how little’s criss-crossing the 49th.
This is all going south.
“Hello out there … it’s Hortons”
Talk about vulgar ….
I remember 50 years ago at Ryerson (TMU) I was early on writing about rock bands selling out their protest souls shilling songs in commercial jingles.
But when I heard Stompin’ Tom Connors’ ‘Hockey Song’ bastardized by Hortons, it was like a puck in the nuts.
That it was Super Bowl related — “… the good ol’ football game …” made it no easier to digest than LSD (last Saturday’s donut). We made this American commercial great again.
What next? O Cannabis!
War of 1812 … War of 2025
At least Trudeau is counter-punching like the old man. Could Junior win another term in at the bell in his final go-round in this political ring? For whom does this bell toll?
No joke. Stranger things have happened the last six months.
“51” and out is not an option in a month from today for the 53-year-old pugnacious pugilist, whose legacy lingers over what happens next in two weeks.
Carney’s karma — bank on this chameleon
Boy o’ boy, let’s talk a bit more about Justin, his soon(?) successor, Boy George and “Karma Chameleon.”
“Karma, karma, karma, karma, karma chameleon
You come and go, you come and go ….”
In Hinduism and Buddhism karma is the sum of a person’s actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences. (Wiki)
Could a former governor of the Bank of England become the governor of the 51st state?
Don’t bank on it. He told the BBC “We are going to stand up to a bully, we’re never, ever going to bow down to a bully.”
And could Chrystia Freeland become his finance minister?
Who knows. They’re “friends” he said this weekend after her campaign website was hacked.
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