Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I think there’s something deeper that Canadians are really focusing on right now—watching our nearest neighbor slip into totalitarianism.
When we see people being pulled off the streets, when we see students at universities being grabbed, detained, and kidnapped, and when we see Kristi Noem filming this disgusting video, we’re looking at a nation we no longer recognize. We don’t want to be like that nation.
So now, as the prime minister said, we have to look elsewhere for the kinds of alliances, agreements, and understandings we used to have with our closest neighbor.
If our nearest neighbor doesn’t respect the rule of law for its own citizens, how is it going to respect international law? And it certainly doesn’t respect us as Canada. So we have no choice—we’re going to make decisions that benefit our region and our people first.