America is no longer the leader of the free world in Canada, we are on a war footing [Video]

America is no longer a member of the free world. That is the almost unbearable truth that has been revealed over the past two months. For Europe, this turn of events has been and will continue to be a painful loss, requiring a more or less complete re-evaluation of their militaries and economic orders. But for Canada, the loss of a sane America is a direct threat to our national survival, and a grotesque betrayal of one of the longest-standing peaceful relationships in world history.

For Canadians, Americans are not just friends and neighbours and allies; they are kin. Americans are our family members, often literally. We have woken up to find our cousins plotting, openly, to enslave us.

Canada has been, more or less, on a war footing since Trump’s declaration that he wanted to make Canadathe “51st State”. The national unity that Trump has created in this country is unprecedented. Not since the first American Civil …