To Doug Ford, David Eby, Andrew Coyne, CBC At Issue Panel, David Cochrane, and the rest of Canada's self-appointed elite echo chamber:
As predicted – your ceaseless, sanctimonious screeching about Donald Trump isn't sharp analysis or principled journalism; it's just elitist bile that's poisoning our trade talks and hurting everyday Canadians like me, who didn't vote for your pal Carney and resent your smug assumption that you speak for us.
As U.S. Ambassador @petehoekstra bluntly told CTV's Mackenzie Gray in an (August 14, 2025) interview, your "personal attacks from Canadian politicians against the U.S. president are another irritant," derailing negotiations and inviting economic pain we can't afford. Yet here you are, you pompous lot, fanning flames with unprofessional venom that Hoekstra called out as counterproductive, all while gaslighting us into thinking you're the heroes. And now, in your petulant tantrums over Trump's tariffs, you've stooped to childish retaliation – pulling American products from shelves, slapping tolls on travelers to Alaska, and urging boycotts like spiteful schoolyard brats.
This isn't leadership; it's elitist fearmongering that worsens the mess, conditioning gullible followers to blindly obey while ordinary Canadians pay the price. Smarten up, or no taxpayer bailout will save your crumbling careers from the toxicity you peddle. Your short-sighted vitriol is damning – a pattern of escalation that's elitist, smugly inflammatory, and now complicit in fearmongering that's exacerbating our tariff woes. Here's a handful of your mildest barbs and petty responses, each one freshly fact-checked:
- Doug Ford, via CTV News: Called Trump the "bully across the border," declaring we'd "fight like we've never fought before" – August 12, 2025. How noble, Doug, but your tough-guy act ignores how it hurts negotiations – and us ordinary folks paying the price.
- Doug Ford, via CTV News: Accused Trump of "acting like the enemy" during premiers' meetings – July 23, 2025. Patronizing drivel from a premier who cozied up to Trump's inner circle before flipping – like your praise for Elon Musk, yet now the Starlink contract you entered into with Elon you've now ditched in a contrived show of virtue signaling that hinders Ontarians. Or, even worse, your repugnant swipe at Trump's team as "enablers of a bully regime" in a March 4, 2025 CNN interview, all while ordering American alcohol yanked from LCBO shelves in a fit of vengeful pettiness. Shame on you for escalating like a hypocrite, hurting jobs while pretending to protect them.
- David Eby, via Global News: Labeled Trump's tariffs a "declaration of economic war" – January 16, 2025. Spare us the hysteria, David; your fearmongering ignores real solutions while you virtue-signal from afar, directing BC to halt purchases of American products and pulling US liquor from shelves on February 1, 2025, then threatening tolls on Alaska-bound trucks via new legislation announced March 6, 2025 – as if bullying travelers fixes anything. To compound the affront, Eby doesn't step in to defend those Canadian jobs he pretends to champion by ordering - legislating if need be - that BC Ferries cancel their purchase of Built-In-China ferries while Canadian shipyards lay idle. The hypocrisy is jaw-dropping. Morally bankrupt moves that alienate our neighbor and gaslight Canadians into thinking retaliation is smart.
- CBC News: Described Trump's Oval Office comments as a "rant," framing him as unhinged – August 12, 2025. Biased much? Your taxpayer-funded panelists, like Hebert and Cochrane, amplify this without nuance, turning policy into character assassination.
- Lawrence Herman, via The Globe and Mail: Portrayed Trump as "lawless," saying "There are no rules that Trump respects" – July 15, 2025. Foul overreach that fuels division.
- CBC At Issue panel: Rosemary Barton and guests, including Scott Reid and Kory Teneycke, repeatedly called Trump a "threat" without balanced discourse – August 5, 2025. Elitist echo chamber at its worst, gaslighting Canadians.
- David Cochrane, via CBC Power & Politics: Framed Trump as an unpredictable "bully" demanding confrontation – July 30, 2025. Patronizing punditry that ignores diplomacy.
- Andrew Coyne, via The Globe and Mail: Cast Trump as a "threat to democracy" with fascist undertones – July 17, 2025. 🤦♀️Andrew, your op-eds drip with superiority, in it's assumption we need or want your stagnant and un-evolving dinosaur-esque enlightenment.
- CBC News: Compared Republicans under Trump to "1930's European Fascist Dictatorships" in coverage – August 8, 2025. Shame on your subsidized sensationalism, equating disputes to authoritarianism.
And let's not forget the Canadian Liberal government's infantile campaigns: Trudeau and premiers urging "buy Canadian" while telling folks to skip US vacations, as in a January 22, 2025 Radio-Canada report, and Trudeau's February 2, 2025 Reuters statement encouraging domestic travel over cross-border trips – treating voters like conditioned sheep in a "Buy Canadian" boycott that sours relations further. Elitist nonsense that exacerbates tariffs, as polls show Canadians souring on the US amid your gaslighting.
You, Andrew Coyne (@acoyne), self-styled guardian of discourse, escalate with venomous barbs that Hoekstra would flag as deal-killers. Here are some of your milder hits, a blueprint in unprofessional elitism:
- Via Globe and Mail: Titled "The final obstacle to Trump's dictatorship may be the people he needs to borrow from," framing him as aspiring dictator – August 6, 2025.
- On X: Said Trump firing the labor commissioner "dispels doubts he's installing a dictatorship" – August 1, 2025.
- On X: Called nearly everything Trump does "banana republic stuff" – August 1, 2025.
- On X: Described Trump as "fundamentally opposed to democracy with an ambition to destroy America" – August 14, 2025.
- On X: Referred to Trump's police and Guard moves as "martial law by stages," warning "the democratic frog is very nearly boiling" – August 11, 2025.
Doug, your attacks on Trump's "inner circle" as enablers of a "bully" – like in your July 23 CTV rant and March 4 CNN slam – are just as repugnant, hypocritically cozying up before backstabbing. This isn't critique; it's performative outrage alienating our top partner, and hardening stances as Hoekstra warned.
Your rhetoric? Unprofessional, elitist drivel exacerbating issues, as Hoekstra told Gray. We've heard enough – it hurts tariffs, jobs, prices. Critique policies, enough of the ad hominem and petty boycotts. We need de-escalation, not your toxic virtue-signaling burying us in duties. Ignore Hoekstra at our peril, or we'll pay – again. Get out of your Trump Derangement echo chamber and try building better bridges before Trump burns them all.
Peeved in Saskatchewan
