Canada still needs America, and other truths from ex-MP Candice Bergen

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Mark Carney swings after Donald Trump announced a 25% tariff plan on automatic imports. “Our old relationship with the United States has ended based on the deepening integration of our economy and close security and military cooperation.”

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What Carney didn’t say is: how the Liberal government will reimagine Canada’s economy and restore our military capabilities.

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Whether Trump reorders the world or not, large-scale changes are needed. Over the past decade, Canada’s real GDP growth has sunk to the bottom of OECD countries. The federal government’s footsteps of donations to NATO have exposed our military and security vulnerability to the world; we strive to defend our homeland.

“But who gave him (Carney) the task is to say we are cutting off our ties with the United States?” Asked the former interim leader of the Conservative Canadian Party and the former interim leader of the Manitoba MP, starting from 2008-2023.

“I want to build and make our relationship better, not by default,” Bergen declared. “We need the United States.” And I hope Poilievre is really firm in saying that we need this relationship. We can’t just rely on it, but we need it, we have to build it.

Bergen continued: “That’s what Danielle (Smith) said. She is indeed the only person in the country who says this, and I find that she is totally true and trustworthy.”

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“When I heard the president say, ‘I have a good positive meeting with Prime Minister Carney, next to the politics, party, and that’s what I want.”

But she was very frustrated by the double standards.

“‘It’s great to meet Mark Carney, good white people from the East,’ and the media just exudes joy. It’s not great,” Bergen said, her tone turning into irony. “It’s great. But why is it a great thing when a liberal does it, and when a balanced, wise, strong conservative woman does it, it’s treason?

Bergen solemnly said, “To be honest, Americans are our friends…we need to have relationships with Americans.” You can’t just say we no longer need the United States as trading partners, she laughed at us, or “we will retaliate against tariffs for that.”

Mexico’s recently elected President Claudia Sheinbaum, another female leader, has come up with a serious, calm way to deal with Trump’s threat without chest pounding. She won Trump’s respect and survived insults and threats.

Bergen concluded: “Trump doesn’t want to be weaponized.” She asserted that politicians who seem to be effective against Trump (Claudia Sheinbaum, Danielle Smith) are those who have not given Trump weapons.

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And, Bergen once again points to an obvious double standard: Mark Carney criticizes Danielle Smith for trying to build relationships with Americans, while he wants to build relationships with Trump.

Carney wrote a book about values, but it was Bergen’s assessment that it was Sheinbaum and Smith who operated with a range of core values ​​that emphasized relationships, mutual trust, mutual respect and firm boundaries. “I think it’s eq,” she said. “It’s the EQ factor, and I think Danielle has it in spades.” Bergen’s disgusting “is because of how the left and Eastern media call her a betrayer of her own country because she respects Donald Trump.”

Bergen assessed: “She has been strong.” “She is building relationships. She sets strong boundaries in the province…’You’re not touching my oil and gas. But our relationship is important and I hope it works.” Transparent

Bergen lives in Winnipeg now, and I contacted her there. Her stately feminine bearings and quiet confidence have not changed.

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Although no longer on the political front, she still shoots cheaply on the bow. Nowadays, people accuse her of being a magician. “These men literally look down on the courage to speak to me,” she shook her head with a frown. “It’s cheap shots, all cheap photos,” she grimaces and conservative women are a simple goal.

Bergen was born in Morden, the youngest of her eight siblings, praised her way of growing up, allowing her to unite the federal Conservatives after most members voted for Erin O’Toole as the leader in 2022. In a way, that is in a way why I want her to be on this important propaganda issue – what federal leadership is needed – what federal leadership is needed to unite Trump’s country? While anti-Maga, “elbow” and confrontational strategies may feel good and focus on political careers, a more even approach may be more effective, Bergen said.

Bergen suggests, think about a family. Sometimes dads escalate things, and moms usually make everyone lose their temper and say: kids, this is not what we are going to do. “Currently, I see some people in our country encouraging emotions, negative, tantrums, and we as Canadians feel for granted. We are hurt by Trump, we are being pissed, we are outraged, we are outbreaks,” Bergen explained. But, she continued, some of our female leaders seem to be saying, “We have to be strong … but no, we are not going to do something that will cause us more pain.”

It is the hypocrisy surrounding how to deal with Trump that stimulates Bergen.

“If you’re with Trump and you’re Danielle Smith, then you’re not good. But if you’re with Trump and you’re Mark Carney, then you’re good.”

Shhh.

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