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Bell: Get a grip, Canadians — Canada is not going to be Trump's 51st state

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Frida Ghitis: I feel we're trapped in a Tom Clancy novel. How many people really believe by the end of Trump ’s four-year term the U.S. military will have invaded Canada ? Ghitis asks readers to imagine Canada surrendering to the Americans . She asks us to imagine an armed insurrection, fights on the streets, a kid might throw a rock at invading Americans soldier, the kid will get shot, more rocks, more gunfire. Ghitis says Canada as the 51st state is a fantasy Trump might believe sometime, but it is not real.

I understand you are angry. I am angry. I understand Trump gets under everyone’s skin. I understand why you would like Trump to shut up about the 51st state. But the Trump tariffs are the target, they are the story. Then again, I hear Mark Carney , Trudeau ’s soon-to-be successor, compared himself recently to British prime minister Winston Churchill taking on Adolf Hitler ..

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