We will never surrender: Canada

Canadians are, increasingly, up for a unified, targeted resistance. We will fight in the grocery aisles, we will fight in the liquor stores, we will cancel our trips south: we will never surrender!

Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump. Canadians continue, by and large, to support Carney’s approach, as do most premiers. But patience is running out after a number of government concessions—on the digital tax, the Gordie Howe Bridge, our disgraceful support for the war on Iran—have not changed a thing. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade and photograph courtesy of the White House/Daniel Torok

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

July 27, 2026

CHELSEA, QUE.—Rage, fear, contempt: an incomplete list, but it captures this country’s overall reaction to United States President Donald Trump, easily the most aggressively-ignorant, narcissistic, emotionally-damaged bully to lead that country in living memory.

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