This is the second 2025 Ontario provincial election edition of Doorstep Postings, the periodic political commentary column written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN,

Just what exactly did anyone expect to happen when Donald Trump pushed the button that read ’51st State’?

Did we think that Canadians would demand better of our current leaders? Did some poor fool imagine that we would blame the bums who led us to the low point where America could so obviously call our bluff as a nation?

Pleasant meeting with the Premiers.

To be clear, we never agreed that Canada would not be the 51st state. We only agreed to share Premier Eby’s comments.

Further, we said the best way to understand President Trump’s position is to take what he says at face value. @SergioGor https://t.co/gw7jPiBsVh

When another blast of snow rolls through Ontario, as it has done for months during this brutal winter, folks batten down the hatches, lock the doors, and abandon anyone who isn’t part of the immediate family outside to freeze.

And so it is when it comes to a country-threatening crisis like this one. Just like it was during COVID, in stubborn defiance of the ever-growing cracks in the social fabric, Canadians are engaging in pointless signalling behaviours all over again. Booing anthems at hockey games instead of baking sourdough bread; building fortresses of French’s ketchup bottles instead of toilet paper hoards. Nobody’s going to tell them they can’t!

And oh yes: demonstrating record faith in our completely faithless, feckless politicians.

We have to retaliate when subjected to the treatment we're getting from Trump. So yes, Cathal is right. Send them the message. Boo the hell out of them.https://t.co/tIpD98yuFW

Why is Doug Ford’s popularity through the roof? Because admitting that Doug Ford talks a good game but is completely out of his depth when dealing with the full might of the American empire is talking down Canada. Criticism, no matter how good faith it is, is not what people want right now. Doug and his government are doing their best, even though their best isn’t very good. Yes, as terrifying as it sounds, this performance is actually the best they are capable of. Do you want to think too hard about that sobering fact at a time like this? I sure don’t!

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