While there are a lot of good things about our neighbor to the south, they do have a bad habit of drowning out all nearby conversation. Whatever Canadian issues there might be, they have this tendency to get drowned out by the loud discourse happening south of the border, often regarding issues that we can鈥檛 actually relate to in Canada.
This tendency has only gotten worse in the past four years, as the loudest, most obnoxious person they could find became President, and the result is we are at the point where it鈥檚 possible to find a Canadian who is intimately familiar with the machinations of American politics, but couldn鈥檛 tell the difference between Justin Trudeau and Trudeau branded silicone bakeware.
This is especially a problem in Saskatchewan, where we, much like our southern neighbors, also have to vote in the fall, but any talk of the relative merits of Scott Moe and Ryan Meili are 小蓝视频 drowned out by whatever disaster is happening this week. The disasters pile up so fast down there I genuinely don鈥檛 know what the disaster will be as this goes to print. There are so many scandals that it鈥檚 hard to keep track, while the issues in this province are more important to us and our families we spend a lot of time ignoring them because they鈥檙e relatively uneventful.
As residents of this province, we should be grateful that whatever differences of opinion we have with Moe or Meili, they still conduct themselves like sensible adults and you would be very surprised to see either of them go on an all-caps tirade on social media about a tire manufacturer not allowing employees to wear their hats. May all politicians going forward achieve that low bar of maturity.
Right now, as regular citizens, we can鈥檛 go south of the border. We might have to conduct business with people in America, but since trade agreements are in constant flux and nobody knows what is going to happen from one day to the next, that鈥檚 getting increasingly difficult.
I propose that all of us do what we can to just ignore America.
Not forever, of course, because they鈥檙e still our neighbors and we still care about them, at least a little. But for now, we need to find a way to pretend they don鈥檛 exist.
While American scandal is alluring and sensational, we have our own, less dramatic problems we shouldn鈥檛 ignore. We have local issues that directly affect our daily lives, whether on a municipal or provincial level. There are two elections this fall, with the possibility of a third if the federal Liberal party really screws something up. That鈥檚 a lot of Canadian problems we have to take a close look at! And that鈥檚 difficult to do when you鈥檝e got whatever is going on with the United States Post Office monopolizing your time.
Right now, we need to focus on Yorkton issues, Saskatchewan issues and potentially Canada issues. None of them involve whatever disaster is going on in the United States of America this week. With the two countries 小蓝视频 the most isolated from each other they have ever been, it鈥檚 time for us to just turn off the feed from south of the border and focus on ourselves. Relax, save your sanity, and switch off everything coming in over the border. Let鈥檚 focus on ourselves for the next few months, and hopefully when we look back to our southern neighbors in 2021 they aren鈥檛 all on fire.
