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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Mar 24, 2025, 02:51 PM Mar 24

Polite but puzzled Canadians try to grasp bitter shift

By Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg Opinion

I thought they might be angry.

Over the past quarter century, I’ve spent big chunks of time in Canada; Montreal and Toronto on occasion, but mostly Vancouver and the South Shore of Nova Scotia. Vancouver is beautiful, but Nova Scotia has a unique hold on me; for a few years my wife and I owned a 200-year-old cottage there. So I was curious how we would be greeted on a return trip this month after President Trump’s twin assaults on Canada’s economy and sovereignty.

It turned out that everyone was nice. Also polite. No one seemed to hold us responsible for the actions of “the bad orange man,” as a waitress in Lunenburg called the U.S. president.

“We’re angry, but we’re trying to temper our anger so that we’re not ruining these generational relationships we have with the American people,” David Mitchell, the mayor of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, told me in an interview. “We’re recognizing that this is one person who is fracturing a hundred years of solidarity.”

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-polite-but-puzzled-canadians-try-to-grasp-bitter-shift/

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Polite but puzzled Canadians try to grasp bitter shift (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 24 OP
Yes, I'm trying to blank out the hatred that is shown literally by only one person (tRUMP) and no one else. SWBTATTReg Mar 24 #1

SWBTATTReg

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1. Yes, I'm trying to blank out the hatred that is shown literally by only one person (tRUMP) and no one else.
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 03:00 PM
Mar 24

tRUMP is a walking icon of hatred all by himself. His hate will go down in the history books and it'll be the memory that will be written about him and his foul administration for centuries to come. And he knows this already, he's aware that people don't like him.

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