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A couple of things stood out for me in Canadian/American news today.

One is the number of high-level whiners there are in the States:

• John Moolenaar,
• Bill Huizenga,
• Tim Walberg,
• Tom Barrett,
• donald trump,
• Lisa McClain,
• Bernie Moreno,
• John James, and
• Jack Bergman.

These are nine Republican whiners … I mean … members of the House of Representatives, a president and a senator, who have apparently complained before: “This is the third consecutive year we have had to write to Canadian officials about a crisis that Canada has the tools to prevent and has chosen not to.” Yup, we Canadians are a lazy bunch, sitting around doing nothing while our world burns around us. I mean, why interrupt our summer suntanning when the forest next to us is burning?

If you’re aghast at my question and already have a list of fifty things you can think of doing, congratulations, and welcome to the human race. We aren’t a bunch of uneducated and helpless monkeys up here, waiting for an all-knowing American white knight to show up. This is called a classic example of how the Americans politicise everything, and how they think that they can do a better job of everything, like Katie Miller, wife of Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, who is still on that tired bandwagon of making Greenland and Canada the “51st [and 52nd] state[s].” No thank you Katie, we’re good. Mr. Miller, it’s nice that you can be a good conservative husband and keep your wife at home to cook meals, but at least give her a better pastime than operating a Twitter account. You must have missed the “seen and not heard” part of your male-domination class, but I guess the class bullies had you in the toilets for your daily hairwashing … when you had hair. Better luck in your next life with a wife who is not so dense.

Actually, one of the nine is a senator from Ohio, who is going to “be introducing a bill next week to sanction Canada and the responsible Canadian government officials for this atrocity.” Wow. I’m shaking in my boots. How would you compare killing tens of thousands of your citizens (in Iran) to a couple of out of control wildfires? Are both atrocities? Have you any sense of proportion?!

I could express my outrage even further, by taking apart the petty points you and others make, but your ignorance speaks for itself. I mean, you “will look elsewhere, and act on our own”? Huh? You will look elsewhere for what? The lumber and cars and steel you don’t need from Canada? And you’ll act on your own? To extinguish the fires in your own back yard? Or are you going to fly up here and show us how the job is done? Because, by all means, head on up here and show us how it’s done, because that will leave us more money to fund the aircraft that we already use for the job we’re not doing. You and Smokey the Bear already do such an excellent job in your own back yard preventing fires from even thinking of starting. Oh, and maybe tell donny that he should consider pumping some money into one of those communist endeavors like the EPA.

The narrow-minded ignorance of some Americans is breathtaking sometimes. Manitoba premier Wab Kinew said it well last year: “These are attention-seekers who can’t come up with a good idea on health care or on making life more affordable. So they’re playing games with something that’s very serious,” also referring to their “timber tantrum”.

There’s another story I want to highlight out of the States, but this will do for now.