Canada needs leadership to usher in a golden age here, too. Pictured: President Donald Trump. Photo Credit: Donald Trump/X.
President Donald Trump had a great inauguration speech on Jan. 20, pledging bold solutions to a country that declined under his predecessor. Unfortunately, Canada has an almost identical malaise under the Trudeau Liberals, and won’t emerge for months.
“My fellow citizens, the golden age of America begins right now,” Trump said. “From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world.”
Will someone please say that for Canada? Domestic prosperity and international esteem for this country has tanked. Investment dollars have gone elsewhere, as observers abroad can’t believe what goes on here. The continuing encroachment on free speech in Canada has astonished freedom-loving people worldwide.
“The vicious, violent and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government will end, and our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous and free,” Trump pledged.
That would be a huge step forward for Canada. Our judiciary did very little to correct governments that disregarded constitutional freedoms in their response to the pandemic. Canadians are less proud, less prosperous, and less free than they were in 2015, and that must change.
“Our government confronts a crisis of trust,” Trump noted. “For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens, while the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete disrepair.”
That sounds familiar. The Liberal government has given rich contracts to its friends, appointed judicial positions to its donors, and taxed common people into the ground–the same place it leaves our oil and gas. Civic institutions, including religious and charitable ones, are hurting, as are traditional Canadian values.
“We have an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves, in many cases to hate our country, despite the love that we try so desperately to provide to them. All of this will change starting today, and it will change very quickly,” Trump promised.
In Canada also, teachers turn children against parents and say their values are wrong. Not one body has been exhumed from the site of the former residential school in Kamloops, but countless streets have been renamed, statues removed, and churches burned down for what some allege to have happened there.
“We will not forget our country. We will not forget our Constitution, and we will not forget our God,” Trump said.
This would be fantastic news in Canada. Our federal government has increasingly encroached on provincial jurisdiction regarding natural resources, a purview the Constitution says belongs strictly to the provinces. Our own prime minister has called Canada a “post-national state.” As for God, military chaplains have been banned from public prayer or displaying religious symbols. Bureaucrats are even recommending religious institutions lose their charitable status.
“We will…export American energy all over the world. We will be a rich nation again, and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it,” Trump promised.
If only Canada would do this. A recent study by University of Regina environmental sociology professor James Warren showed if Trans Mountain, Northern Gateway, and Energy East pipelines been up and running at full capacity from 2015 to 2022, Canada would have seen $292 billion in additional export revenues. By comparison, the federal government spent almost $449 billion in 2024-25.
“After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression, I will also sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America. Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents,” Trump pledged.
The Trudeau government has had one bill after another to regulate internet speech and transform the broadcast environment into one that promotes racial and sexual minorities. It has thrown money at mainstream media, while its actions to offend Facebook have left independent media unable to post so much as a link to its articles to its platform. This ideologically and politically-biased environment must stop.
“We are going to bring law and order back to our cities. This week, I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. We will forge a society that is color-blind and merit based… [and say] that there are only two genders, male and female,” Trump pledged.
The teaching of diversity, equity, and inclusion, nice-sounding terms to justify systemic discrimination against males and whites, has become the dominant obsession of educational and governmental institutions, dragging corporate ones along with them. This Cultural Marxist destruction deserves an immediate and overwhelming setback.
Whether Trump lays tariffs on Canada or not, our country could face a difficult winter. The U.S. will surge ahead while Canada remains stuck in the mire, waiting for change. Canada has everything it needs to prosper except for a leader in power ready to do what it takes.
