Brennan Day, who serves in British Columbia’s Legislative Assembly as a member of the Conservative Party, said he received Martin’s letter and was not sure how many other officials received it.
“Honestly, I couldn’t believe it’s legitimate, but we reached out to [Martin’s] office,” Day told a Vancouver radio station. “It is a legitimate memo.”
Martin, who served his first term in the Maine Senate this year and is retired from a career in the international mineral extraction industry, did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday.
Day posted Aug. 6 to Facebook an open response to Martin’s letter that said it “reads like a recruitment brochure for a political ideology,” and Day told Martin “you are operating well outside of your lane sir, so allow me to operate well outside of mine.”
Day took offense to several parts of Martin’s letter, including the Maine senator’s reference to “Canadian political baggage” and how the provinces becoming states would feature no “British monarchism, no bilingual federal documents [and] no imported bureaucracies.”
If the provinces became U.S. states, Martin also wrote that for “millions of people currently frustrated by central authority, moral decay, and bureaucratic suffocation, that reward is liberty.”
Day told Martin he holds “deep respect” for the U.S. and its citizens, but the Canadian lawmaker said the letter “lands more as a manifesto of arrogance.”
“Your letter is a perfect example of what many Canadians find so deeply troubling about the American worldview — assuming that what works for you must be the solution for everyone else,” Day added.
If the provinces became U.S. states, Martin also wrote that for “millions of people currently frustrated by central authority, moral decay, and bureaucratic suffocation, that reward is liberty.”
Oh. Yeah, there’s no moral decay in the US.
You have a guy in the Epstein files as president, who was best buds with Epstein while he was sex trafficking, walked in on underage girls at his pageants, has taken bribes, convicted of fraud, found guilty of rape, using the office for billions of dollars in personal gains, etc.
And your “liberty” involves using the military as police and building concentration camps for your undesirables.
No, YOU have the problems with central authority as you quickly allow the president to exceed his constitutional authority. YOU have the problem of moral decay. YOU have the problem of bureaucratic suffocation as the big companies weaponize the legal system and the executive funds them and cracks down on anti trust.
I don’t want your version of liberty. It is everything but.
lib•er•ty l’libardē | noun (plural liberties)
the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views: compulsory retirement would interfere with individual liberty.
How’s that working out for your LGBTQ citizens? How about your minorities being fired for their race and sex from the pentagon and government roles? How about forced pregnancy and abortion rights? How about withholding aid from blue states due to their votes?
We certainly do have liberty here, whereas in the US only the billionaires who grovel at the president’s feet have any such right.
There is no moral decay in the US. I look at the federal government and see no semblance of morals of any kind. I don’t think the US has ever been a biome consistent with morals. Decay implies that something has once existed
“Your letter is a perfect example of what many Canadians find so deeply troubling about the American worldview — assuming that what works for you must be the solution for everyone else,”
Even describing what is happening in the USA as “working” is a helluva stretch.
How could anyone look at what’s happening in the US right now and think “count me in!”?
Fascists like fascists
Someone go find Danielle Smith. She can leave any time, but she doesn’t get the land.
I mean… Puerto Rico and Guam should be states if you ask me.
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I dunno, conservative politicians have been shit on a global scale through pretty much all of history, and yet we still vote for them… So, in sure people wish we’d join that shithole, too. Then they’d probably bitch about how much worse life got and blame the Liberals or NDP for it.
We (western provinces) won’t be allowed to keep our parties, any laws, or be called provinces. They will be us states with us politics. So ineffective dems or destructive repugnicans.
I really liked Charlie Angus’ reply: https://youtu.be/9BptD9K1Bu4
Amen.
This is 100% spot on.
I love Charlie Angus
Charlie is like Bernie Sanders and Bill Burr rolled into one. I love it. 😂
I was awful entertained by Todd Maffin’s response.
I didn’t think there was any possible way to make the prospect of becoming an American any less appealing, yet here this guy goes and does it.
Okay, how about this: Canada and the sane rational people of Maine team up to launch this bastard into space.
Can we send him one back asking for Maine?
Hell no. People there elected this moron.
We don’t want any part of that.
I once thought that we could do well to take a few states, cali, d.c. (not a state i know), washington, etc. but then I noticed that there is too much rot even in “blue” states. leave em to their rot, we don’t want any state, even if we would require what that pos senator laid out
The same propaganda networks that lead to 35% of California’s voters being republican are being promoted in canada. Facebook, am radio, Fox News, and now CBS, CNN, etc are being distributed in canada. You even had a guy who campaigned on a Maga platform running for pm. As long as the neoliberals allow those networks to keep spewing propaganda, canada is going to be next on the democratic chopping block.
Hopefully, with the stellar economic and trade situation in the us plus the military being deployed against citizens, they will finally see that conservatives are absolutely incompetent. Meanwhile I’ll be here turning blue from lack of oxygen.
I am praying for that.
But the neoliberals have been unwilling to move centre on any issue. And their market-based solutions do not allow for criminal penalties for promoting outright lies with clearly established harm to voters. I think the worst thing is that scum like poilievre want to do the reverse: destroy public media. The neolibs are the ones who forced public media to include corporate advertising. Which means they are only a half step away from the Maga party on public media. And both are very permissive to allowing propaganda to be disseminated on Canadian networks.
Not all of Maine. People with his world view are welcome to stay in their “liberated” country.
You chose to turn your country into a dumpster fire, we don’t want any part of it. We have enough fires to deal with already.
Is that Temu Phil Donahue?
That, or Wish Captain Kangaroo.
Here’s Brennan Day’s full response on fb … https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=122177188046462955&id=61563888661962
stay off of the book of faces; your eyeballs going onto that platform pays Facebook, Facebook in turn donates to Trump. I personally want Carney to bring back the DST, when trade negotiations inevitably fail. If Carney has the balls to do it retro actively as the plan was originally Facebook will be losing money rather than making money!
Your letter is a perfect example of what many Canadians find so deeply troubling about the American worldview; 'they do not have a clue what’s going on in their own country.
No bilingual federal documents? Did he also send that invitation to his neighbour Quebec?
