ELENA: In BBC’s reports on how Canadians feel about the so-called Trump threat, all of the people they choose to show say how against Trump they are and his retoric about Canada. How does this make you feel (the choice of voices)? What do you personally feel about Tramp’s stance towards Canada?
MEG: Of course, the BBC is biased toward whatever get’s clicks. Controversy, reaction, tribalism, fear, sex — essentially anything that triggers primal feelings is going to get more coverage. Trump makes an offhanded comment, and the media plays on Canadians’ propensity for outrage to pump it up for views, clicks, ratings… whatever. How that bias makes me feel? Answer: indifferent. The BBC (all media) need clicks, this is just standard business practise. How the idiotic public react to it — booing, shouting, boycotting, getting all red in the face, cancelling, ganging up — well, that behaviour, it’s what makes me embarrassed to be a member of Canada — or even the human race.
ELENA: Why do you like the idea of Canada being another USA state?
MEG: I like the fantasy of Canada being a part of USA because it would hurt the bullies. The overlords. The entitled. It would level the playing field. Canada operates on graft, corruption, nepotism, and favouritism while going full on propaganda to promote itself as anything but. Essentially, Canada and being Canadian stand for nothing (other than saying they are NOT American). Also I think it would be better for the environment. If Canada was a part of the USA, American environmental laws would apply to it. Currently the USA can pretty much rape Canada for resources with impunity and the approval of the Canadian government and Canada’s elite.
ELENA: What feelings do you have when you are reminded of Canada?
MEG: My first and foremost feeling I have when encountering Canada in any way, is FEAR.
ELENA: Canadians constantly say how different they are from Americans. What do you think they mean by that? What makes them “special”?
MEG: Canadians say they are different from Americans so they don’t have to compete with them.
ELENA: Do you think the latest castling with appointment of the new PM will change anything in Canada?
MEG: Castling the PM will change nothing. Canada is not a democracy. People do not elect their leader. Besides that, policy is not dictated by a government — elected or otherwise, it is dictated by the financially elite and corporations. In the case of Canada, that is mostly the banking industry, the health care industry, and resource exploitation interests.
ELENA: You often say you are embarrassed to be Canadian, why?
MEG: For the above reasons… and also for how stupidly Canadians are presented in the media. I guess the presentation is accurate, which is really cringeworthy. Maybe it’s also because Canadian’s are so proudly happy to eat the shit their elites force on them. Also being Canadian always means being disadvantaged, second-best, put-upon. Somehow Canadians are seen as those bastard children of brother-sister couplings that need to be measured with lower expectations, you know, because they are ‘special’.
Take protectionism, for instance. Like Canadian content laws that state that everything a Canadian sees must be 75% Canadian. So take a distributer, like Netflix, in USA they can simply open their library. But to have a license to let Canadians watch their content, Netflix (and all others) are required to restrict (AKA censor) content available to Canadian viewers to 25% of the Canadian content that gets distributed via their network. This means that for Netflix to show one Hollywood film, they must also show 3 Canadian films. Technically, the only way Canadians can watch whatever they want to out of USA, their own Canadian film industry (that’s a joke, by the way), has to produce THREE TIMES AS MANY MOVIES as USA!
From a Canadian perspective, where nothing is real, and optics and propaganda are paramount (not the studio) to maintain a failing contrivance packaged as a country, it is essential to push the crappy (almost cult like/religious) Canadian propaganda to the point it smothers anything real from anywhere else.
With 75% Canadian content rules, one must dig through a mountain of shit to find anything real or uncringeworthy.
And of course, given the choice between a Hollywood blockbuster or yet another Canadian, victim bore-fest what’s anyone going to watch?
Canadian means ‘loser’. It means walking around with one tooth and a banjo, drooling that you’re ‘special’.
ELENA: What part, if any, do you expect Canada to play in our lives, what’s left of them?
MEG: Hopefully as little as possible.
ELENA: To free yourself from Canada you have to have residency elsewhere. What would you like that place to be like? Basically what is your dream home country?
MEG: My dream home country: I forget the name of it, but that island they built off some Italian shore. As for where to live and have a real-life pied du terre, I’d have to say some kind of offshore contrivance like Bahamas, or Vanuatu.