Donald Trump Has Triggered a “Time of Troubles” for Canada

I read with interest Neema Parvini’s “The Mark Carney Paradox” in the June/July issue of Chronicles. Parvini contends that, in the recent showdown over tariffs between Canadian Prime Minister Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump, Carney is “winning” and “getting his way.”

That may be what it looks like from an outside perspective. And, goodness knows, many Canadians would like to think so, too.

However, the reality is that Trump’s rhetoric about tariffs and threats to add Canada as the 51^st state have plunged Canada into a “time of troubles” that may administer the long-postponed coup de grâce to Canada’s fragile national unity.

And if Canada is indeed entering a time of troubles, then the upcoming 50^th anniversary of the publication of Peter Brimelow’s 1986 The Patriot Game deserves special attention.