A Commentary by Niagara At Large reporter/publisher Doug Draper
Posted March 14th, 2025 on Niagara At Large
Marco Rubio, Trump’s Secretary of State and long-time lap boy was doing his dear leader’s bidding in Canada this March 13th and 14th.
When Marco Rubio, Trump’s recently anointed secretary of state with a long record of kissing the orange man’s ring while he was a U.S. senator, came to Canada this past March 13th to represent this country in a G7 meeting, he said that Trump’s repeated threat to make Canada a “51st state” was not going to be part of the meeting’s agenda.
Then, this March 14th, when entertaining questions from the media following the end of the Quebec meeting between representatives of the G7 countries, including Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom, Rubio – or “Little Marco” as Trump used to call him – what did he do?
He dredged up Trump’s offensive view that that Canada would so much “ better off” if it became a 51st state of United States.
Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly, who also attended the G7 meeting, told reporters that “what I said to the secretary (Rubio) is Canada’s sovereignty is not up to debate. …There’s no argument, there’s no conversation about it, there’s no need to talk about it.”
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly had to remind Marco Rubio that he was a guest in another country.
“You’re here (in our country of Canada)” Joly reminded Rubio. “You respect us, you respect our sovereignty, you’re in our country, you respect our people. Period.”
It’s pretty damn shameful that a high-level government representative of the United State administration, while he is a guest in any other country – in this case Canada, a country that the United States was once so friendly with, needs to be told not to echo something that is so offensive to most, if not all Canadian people.
It seems to me that being a good guest when you are visiting the home of an old friend is something ‘Little Marco’ should have been taught by his parents when he was four or five years old.
Marco Rubio, on the right, sits there like a zombie while Trump and U.S. vice-president J.D. Vance dump all over Ukraine’s president in the White House in late February of this year.
But then this is the same Marco Rubio who sat there in the Oval Office a few weeks ago, looking like a zombie while Trump and his vice-president J.D. Vance hurled one insult after another at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky while he came hoping for the continued support of the United States in the illegal war Putin’s Russia is waging against his country.
And it is the same Marco Rubio who came to the G7 meeting in Quebec this past March 13th saying that Trump’s repeated threat to take over Canada by economic force and turn it into a “51st state” of the United States was not on the meeting’s agenda.
At the same time that Rubio was saying that, there was Trump back in the White House, ranting once again about Canada having nothing to offer the U.S. outside of giving up its sovereignty to him.
To watch that rant, click on the screen below –
Given all of this, one has to wonder if our canadian leaders should waste any more time and ours travelling to Washington D.C. to try to reason with Trump and his stooges.
Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford, just as one example, was down in Washington, D.C. again, trying to talk some sense in to U.S. representatives about how damaging a tariff war is to people in both countries around the same time Trump let loose with the rant above. So much for that.
What has Ontario Premier Doug Ford and other Canadian political leaders really gained by going to Washington, D.C. and trying to talk Trump and his gang to stop the tariff war? Wouldn’t it be better to stay home and hit the U.S. as hard as possible with boycotts and counter charges on U.S. products?
Wouldn’t it be better for our governments in Canada and for we, the Canadian people, to spend that time inflicting as much pain as possible on the United States by slapping as many counter tariffs on that country, by boycotting all products mande in the U.S.A. and by cancelling all visits to the United States until there is so much economic suffering south of the border that the wing nut in the White House finally cuts it out.
In the meantime, if Trump is going to threaten Canada, Mexico, countries in Europe and other regions of the free and democratic world with damaging tariffs and worse, why not throw the United States out of the G7, just as Putin’s Russia was kicked out after it used force to annex Crimea, an Eastern European peninsula bordering Ukraine, a decade ago.
Trump appears to get along better with Russian strongman Putin than he does with old friends and allies of the United States like Canada.
Let the United States do all its business with the likes of Russia, China and North Korea, three totalitarian nations with brutal strongmen that Trump seems to admire and get along so much better with than he does with old friends and allies of his country like Canada.
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Doug Draper, Niagara At Large
For more on this, click on the following – Joly tells Marco Rubio ‘Canada’s sovereignty is not up to debate, period’ | CBC News
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