Dear America,
To President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and the Americans sitting across the negotiating table from our government:
I'm writing this from Canada with a request I never thought I would make of another country.
Please help us.
Not our government. Us. The Canadian people. Please help us understand what is happening to our own country.
Our relationship with the United States is deteriorating. Our economy is hurting. Canadian and American families are worried about jobs, businesses, mortgages and the country we're going to hand our children. Yet through one of the most consequential trade disputes of our lifetime, ordinary Canadians are being left in the dark about what is actually happening.
We hear statements and vague explanations from our government. What we don't get to see or hear is what actually happened at the table.
Increasingly, Canadians are learning more about negotiations involving our own country by watching non-subsidized taxpayer funded American news and American officials.
Think about how extraordinary that is. Our media isn't working for us. Canadians are looking across the border to understand what our own government is doing. So today, I'm asking you to look back across that border at us.
Please don't leave Canadians in the dark. You have the perfect opportunity to shine the light on the truth and help Canadians to see it.
If you made Canada an offer, show us. If our government rejected something, show us. If Canada made demands that prevented an agreement, show us those too. Because we simply cannot trust what our own government and media is telling us.
Give us the timeline. Give us the documents. Give us whatever can legally be made public.
Then please do something unmistakably American...
Put it in front of the people.
Buy the television ads. Buy the newspaper ads. Buy the digital ads. Build a website containing the documents and put the address everywhere. Run a commercial during the hockey game if that's what it takes.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford bought advertising in your country because he wanted Americans to hear Ontario's message directly.
Please return the favour. Buy the ads in our country. Television, radio, social media...all of it.
Do it for Canadians who deserve to know what is being done in their name.
Americans understand something deeply that shouldn't stop mattering when you reach the 49th parallel: a government should answer to its people.
And people cannot hold their government accountable when they aren't given the information necessary to do it.
That is where we need your help.
For generations, Canadians and Americans have been neighbours in a way that goes far beyond politics. Our families live on both sides of that border. We trade together. We build things together. We defend this continent together.
Our governments can fight.
Our people don't have to become enemies.
So I'm asking you sincerely, and with more humility than Canadians are generally comfortable showing:
Please help your neighbours.
We aren't asking you to interfere in our politics. We aren't asking for money or special treatment.
We're asking you to turn on the light.
Give ordinary Canadians access to the information you already have. Speak directly to us. Trust us with the facts.
There was a time when Canada would never have needed another country to help its citizens understand what their own government was doing.
It pains me to admit that today, some of us believe we do.
And of all the countries in the world, there is only one I would think to ask.
America.
Our neighbour. Our friend. The country that has stood beside us through wars, disasters, terrorism, recessions and generations of shared history.
We're standing on the other side of that border now asking you for something remarkably small that could make an enormous difference.
Please show Canadians what happened.
• Put the documents in our hands.
• Buy the ads.
• Tell us what our own government will not.
Because right now, your Canadian neighbours need some help. And we're asking America not to look away.
@POTUS@DonaldTrump@jamiesongreer@JDVance@howardlutnick@bennyjohnson
🚨 CANADA’S INDUSTRIAL COLLAPSE under @MarkJCarney
With receipts 🧾
📍 Honda Alliston, ON → Cancelled— $15 Billion
📍 Stellantis Brampton, ON → Moved to Illinois — $500 Million in aid pocketed
📍 Stellantis Windsor Battery Plant → Sold stake for — $100
📍 GM CAMI Ingersoll, ON → PERMANENTLY CLOSED — $2 Billion retool gone
📍 GM Oshawa, ON → Production moved to Indiana — $280 Million lost
📍 Ford Oakville, ON → EV production moved to USA — $2.3 Billion gone
📍 Northvolt Quebec → BANKRUPT — $7 Billion evaporated
📍 Invista Kingston, ON → Moving to Texas — 500 jobs gone
📍 Umicore Ontario → Shifting to Poland & South Korea — $260 Million gone
🇨🇦 TOTAL INVESTMENT LOST:
💰Over $50 Billion
Ottawa’s response?
Press releases. Photo ops.
A delusional PM who thinks your gas is cheap.
“We are a Energy Superpower 🇨🇦
More Powerful Prosperous Economy ?🤔🙇🏻🚨
This is managed decline with a price tag. 🇨🇦
RT until every Canadian sees this 👇
This woman wrote:
OUR SYSTEM IS FAILING US!!! !
My 17-year-old son was in a horrific accident on Monday. He was ejected from the vehicle, and we have been at Hamilton General ever since.
He has a fractured neck, a broken shoulder, broken ribs, broken elbow, broken collar bone and multiple other injuries.
And yet, since yesterday afternoon, my injured 17-year-old child has been left in a hospital hallway, under the brightest lights, with no privacy, no proper place to rest, and very little relief.
I understand our hospitals are overwhelmed. I understand our healthcare workers are stretched beyond their limits. This is not an attack on the nurses and doctors who are doing everything they can.
This is about a system that is failing both its patients AND its healthcare workers.
How have we gotten to the point where a child with a fractured neck and multiple traumatic injuries is left lying in a hallway?
And I don’t even want to make this about me, because I would sit beside my son on the floor for the rest of my life if that’s what he needed. But one week ago today, I finished 38 rounds of chemo. I’ve now spent days sitting in a hard chair beside him, running on fear, adrenaline and exhaustion, with no relief in sight.
Something has to change.
We work. We pay taxes. We pay into benefits. We do everything we’re supposed to do — and when our families desperately need help, where is it?
This isn’t acceptable healthcare.
This isn’t compassion.
And this isn’t something we should just learn to tolerate because “there aren’t enough beds.”
There aren’t enough beds. There aren’t enough resources. There aren’t enough supports. And our families and healthcare workers are paying the price.
We need change. We need accountability. And we need it NOW.
Because no parent should have to watch their seriously injured child recover in a hospital hallway.
Keep our money in Canada!!!! 🇨🇦
#NoHospitalBeds #HealthcareCrisis #OntarioHealthcare #HamiltonGeneral #WeNeedChange #DoBetterOntario #DougFordYouSuck #wellandtribune #hamiltonhealthsciences #TakeCareOfOurChildren
#jeffburch #niagara411 #newsmedia607
Mr. Carney,
You stood at a podium yesterday and told Canadians that this country thrives because we are Canadian.
It was a beautiful line. Polished. Applause ready. It was also insulting.
Because it confuses thriving with surviving, and only someone who has never had to do either could make that mistake so confidently.
Canadians do not thrive the way you describe.
We endure. We adapt. We make do. We get through.
We get up early not because it is inspiring, but because bills do not care about speeches. We work late not because it is fulfilling, but because standing still is not an option. We shovel our own driveways because help is expensive, unreliable, or nonexistent, and we still show up on time.
That is not thriving, Mr. Carney. That is survival with dignity.
We survive when systems fail. We adjust when costs rise. We absorb broken promises and carry on anyway. There is no applause line for that, because survival does not photograph well.
We survive because farmers plant knowing Ottawa might change the rules halfway through the season. Because tradespeople build while being taxed, regulated, and lectured by people who have never risked payroll on a slow month. Because parents budget groceries like a tactical exercise and still manage to raise decent kids without permission from a federal narrative.
We survive because Canadians are practical. When something breaks, we fix it ourselves. Not because we want to, but because waiting for government help usually means waiting forever. Or being told the service exists on paper.
You speak of thriving while Canadians quietly ask which services you are referring to.
Healthcare that exists in theory. Housing plans that never house anyone. Affordability programs that arrive long after the damage is done.
We survive because communities step in when institutions step back. Not because systems are strong, but because neighbours are. We rely on each other because experience has taught us not to rely on governments that measure success by how well they explain failure.
We survive because small businesses stayed open through lockdowns, fines, shortages, and paperwork that multiplied faster than revenue. Because families absorbed inflation while being told it was temporary. Because seniors adapted quietly to shrinking purchasing power while politicians assured them relief was coming.
You call this thriving.
Canadians call it getting through.
We survive because we know how to get through winters. Literal ones and political ones. We stock up. We brace ourselves. We do not expect rescue, especially from people who have never had to wait for it.
We survive because we question authority. Just ask the Freedom Convoy. Canadians have an instinctive allergy to being ordered around by people who exempt themselves from the consequences. We remember what happens when compliance is mistaken for unity.
We survive because we do not confuse slogans with reality, no matter how high the elbows go or how loudly we are told to clap. We know the difference between leadership and performance. Between patriotism and appropriation.
And while governments waste money, restrict rights, censor speech, divide citizens, and congratulate themselves, Canadians quietly keep the country functioning anyway.
That is not thriving. That is resilience under pressure.
So when you tell Canadians they thrive because they are Canadian, it lands differently on those of us who have actually lived it.
Because confusing survival with thriving is easy if you have never had to survive.
And that is the problem.
Mark Carney speaks of thriving from a life buffered by boards, institutions, and global forums. A life spent above the consequences does not teach you the difference between getting ahead and just getting through.
Those who have never had to survive often mistake endurance for success, and then try to take credit for it.
So no, Mr. Carney.
Canadians are not thriving because of you.
We are surviving despite a government that made life harder, more expensive, more divided, and then attempted to dress our endurance up as its achievement.
Our resilience is not your accomplishment.
It is proof of a people who carried each other while being lectured by someone who does not recognize the difference.
And Canadians are done applauding the performance.
My advice to you Mr. Carney?
Before defining Canadians, try surviving as one.
As always,
Melanie in Saskatchewan
Link in description and below👇🏻
@MarkJCarney@liberal_party #cdnpoli
6 years ago, Don Cherry was fired for saying this.
But it is as true today as it was then. Even more today.
Wearing a poppy is NOT a political statement. It's about honoring our veterans.
Thank you for your service and your sacrifices have not been forgotten.
Mark Carney: Invites students to a lecture hall and depressingly tells them to be prepared to make more sacrifices.
Pierre Poilievre: Invites students on stage to let them share their story and holds a photo-line after he's done giving his speech.
Yeah... I'm supporting Pierre.