Patriotic sentiment grows among Canadians in response to Trumps threats [Video]

McGill University undergrad Daniel Miksha made a significant decision over the weekend.

After hearing the news that U.S. President Donald Trump planned to impose 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian exports, Miksha shelved his plans to apply to Boston University, Yale and Harvard for graduate studies.

“I feel like the social and political climate in Canada is far better than what I’m seeing in the United States,” the fourth-year philosophy student said in an interview Tuesday. “If I can make a choice about where I’m going to spend probably many years of my life in grad school and afterwards, I would prefer to stay here.”

His gesture was one example of what observers say has been a growing wave of patriotic sentiment among Canadians since Trump took office and ratcheted up his anti-Canadian rhetoric, repeatedly saying the nation should become the 51st American state. Online, people are sharing lists of …