Trudeau’s neglect of the growing threat of radical Islam within its borders, may be Trudeau’s and Canada’s Achilles heel, and may ultimately hurt Canada’s economic relationship with the U.S. and hence Canadian prosperity and Canada’s way of life
My Advice To Trudeau on Meeting Trump- Expect the Unexpected
I, an unrepentant conservative/libertarian contrarian, am the last person Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will seek for advice. But he should.
When Trump first announced his candidacy in June, 2015, I knew instinctively he would win it all.
I get this very unique, often reviled but brilliant political leader. I wrote and published a book in July, 2016, on how Trump will triumph in November against the over-rated Hillary.
For Trudeau to understand Trump and relate to this political genius, he must wipe from his mind all he has heard and read in the Canadian mainstream press. We are talking the usual lefty suspects: CBC, CTV, The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star.
Trump will not resign or be impeached in his first four years. Trump is looking to win decisively in 2020. And he is on his way to meet that goal. So Trudeau better be prepared for eight years of Trump and perhaps another eight years of GOP/Trump rule under Pence.
In order to win in 2020, the strategy is deceptively simple. Trump needs to win more decisively in the swing states of Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida, that he barely won in 2016. If he picks up shaky blue Democratic states as Virginia, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado, we are looking at a major landslide, my friends.
So Trump is primarily focused on those above midwestern states, including Virginia and Florida, the heartland states. His focus on those states is jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs and more jobs. Fuelled by reducing corporate taxes, eliminating unnecessary red tape/regulations and encouraging investment in those states.
When Trump talks about “America First” , it is about American citizens and their jobs and their lives and their children’s lives first.
Trump is no pro-Nazi/fascist Lindbergh as the clueless liberal pundits in Canada and the U.S. argue.
One of the most important jobs of a Canadian PM is to properly manage the relationship with the U.S. President, the leader of Canada’s most important trading partner and export market.
Trudeau should focus on how Canada assists and promotes job creation in those key midwest states and how Canada can assist and develop more jobs in these states- as allies and integrated trading, manufacturing and supply chain partners. Probably through a renegotiated NAFTA agreement or a new revised bilateral FFTA agreement with the U.S. (“Fair Federal Trade Agreement”)
Trudeau should be embracing Trump’s support of the Keystone pipeline, in which a Canadian public company will be investing billions of dollars in a pipeline that will directly create about 30,000 American jobs.
In order to retain the economic benefits of the U. S. being Canada’s largest and most reliable market, Trudeau will have to unilaterally agree to increase Canada’s defense budget and its NATO and NORAD contributions.
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American/Canadian border security
Though Trudeau will avoid discussion of Trump’s order of a partial travel ban from certain “troubled” nations, expect Trump to challenge Trudeau on Trudeau’s so-called “open borders” policies for refugees and his refusal to recognize the threat of radical Islamic terrorists in Canada who may want to infiltrate the U. S. from Canada.
I am sure Trump and his advisers were not impressed when Trudeau blamed American society four years ago for the radical Islamic Muslim Boston bombers killing and maiming so many innocent Americans.
I believe that Trump, his advisers and many Americans believe that Trudeau’s cavalier/ sympathetic view of radical Muslims in Canada, based on clueless head-in-the-sand liberal ideology, makes the U. S. vulnerable on its northern border with Canada.
In the U. S.- national security trumps friendship and even good trading relations between long time allies.
Canada, under Trudeau may be America’s Achilles security heel. Trudeau’s neglect of the growing threat of radical Islam within its borders, may be Trudeau’s and Canada’s Achilles heel, and may ultimately hurt Canada’s economic relationship with the U.S. and hence Canadian prosperity and Canada’s way of life.
Govern yourself accordingly, Justin, you may be in for a rocky ride with Trump on Monday or at least in the very near future.
Mitch Wolfe, a graduate of Harvard University, is the author of “Trump: How He Captured The Trump White House”, which he wrote and had published prior to the election. (available on Amazon.com)
