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Writing this on Boxing Day in the afterglow of last night's traditional family dinner, I can't help but think about the hundreds of thousands of refugees and displaced people for whom this is a season of abject fear in Donald Trump's USA. I was inspired by the lyrics...

Until the event of the past year, any Canadian who warned of a possible takeover by our closest ally would have been deemed to be mentally deranged.  Now, not only is that a real-world possibility, but its probability is impossible to estimate with any degree of confidence. This threat to Canadian sovereignty motivates the Standing with Canada resistance movement.

While recent polls have reported that 85% of Canadians say they’re tired of hearing about Donald Trump, history has proven that burying one’s head in the proverbial sand in the face of a developing fascist dictatorship has always has disastrous consequences. We must remain vigilant.

Until the event of the past year, any Canadian who warned of a possible takeover by our closest ally would have been deemed to be mentally deranged.  Now, not only is that a real-world possibility, but its probability is impossible to estimate with any degree of confidence. This threat to Canadian sovereignty motivates the Standing with Canada resistance movement.

In standing up for Canadian sovereignty in the face of Mr. Trump’s stated intent to annex our country, let’s remember that it is their current leadership which we despise, not our many American friends. Kingston Stands with Canada involves Kingstonians coming together to organize public events and provide wearables for all of us who seek to keep Canada free. If you wish to be involved, please click on the Volunteer button on this page.

I asked the Google AI for a list of defining characteristics of a state devolving into fascism. It returned a list of 16 such characteristics. Disturbingly, the Trump Administration is already so far advanced on nearly all of them that no impartial observer could consider them to be anything but fascist.