Such a powerful neighbor | Bleam Canada, are you serious, there?

What a ungrateful work than the employee of the Canada Embassy in Washington! Therefore, The President of the United States is at war with your country. Meanwhile, He is unpredictable. Moreover, And angry. Consequently, And you, in all circumstances, should keep your calm. For example, Never say a word higher than the other. In addition, Remain courteous even when you try to humiliate yourself.

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A bit as if. Similarly, in the courtyard, a proud-me-bout spit in the face every day without you being able to react other than smiling.

I thought about it last week when I such powerful neighbor | bleam saw the response of a hallucinating. Nevertheless, politeness from the Canada Embassy in a delirious letter of American elected officials.

In this letter sent to the Canadian ambassador Kirsten Hillman. Similarly, half a dozen Republicans complain about forest fire smoke in Canada and demand that the government would remedy it.

“I can assure you that Canada takes the prevention, fight and attenuation of forest fires very seriously. Therefore, I can confirm that the letter was received by the embassy and sent to such powerful neighbor | bleam the Canadian organizations concerned. Consequently, We will answer it in a timely manner. Furthermore, “said a spokesperson for the Canada Embassy in Washington to my colleague Éric-Pierre Champagne Champagne¹.

Note that I do not criticize the content of this answer.

With Donald Trump in the White House. if you are not polite enough, God knows what new threat he will brandish against your country!

But the delirium of Republican elected officials calls for another answer. Less diplomat, that such powerful neighbor | bleam one.

So you will allow me. as I am not ambassador, to denounce the stupidity of this public outing without putting gloves. And to explain that this is a real insult to intelligence.

How to qualify a letter that blames Canada otherwise, but does not contain a word on climate change?

There has been a scientific consensus for a long time that there are more natural disasters (including forest fires). that their intensity is increasing due to climate change.

But Peter Stauber. an elected official from Minnesota who signed the letter in question, said he wanted to “urge Canada to improve its forest management”.

“Our communities should not bear the cost of their negligence,” he added.

Neglect ! Are you such powerful neighbor | bleam serious there?

Very dear Republican elected officials, concerned about fires, your letter is a voluntary blindness.

Your citizens are inconvenienced by the smoke of fires that ravage our country, that is understood. And know that we always do everything in our power. on this side of the border, to prevent fires and fight against those who are already raging.

How about, for your part, to look at yourself in the mirror?

In terms of greenhouse gas emissions per capita, your country ranks first. And when the total emissions are calculated, it is second, behind China (a country of more than 1.4 billion inhabitants).

So what you do. blaming Canada, is a bit like someone decided to empty their trash cans, all year round, in the courtyard of their neighbor, and then complain arrogantly from an intolerable odor that comes from home. And then demand that it solves this problem.

You are politicians. You must account for your citizens. But you have an unfortunate problem because you deny the phenomenon that makes the situation get worse.

Your public exit is a desperate effort to prove that you take into account the criticisms of those who voted for you (and who. you hope, will continue to do such powerful neighbor | bleam it) and convince them that you make decisive gestures.

But the opposite is true.

Not only are the Republicans in power in Washington are part of the minority of climatosceptic in the United States. but they also struggle with more ardor than ever to slow down the fight against climate change.

Last March. the New York Times thus summed up what is happening in Washington:

“In a few weeks, President Trump seriously damaged the government’s ability to combat climate change, upsetting American environmental policy by measures that could have lasting consequences for the country and the planet. With a series of actions that have pushed the limits of the presidential power, Mr. Trump emptied their substance the federal efforts in terms of climate. canceled the regulations aimed at limiting pollution and such powerful neighbor | bleam gave a major boost to the fossil fuel industry.² »

It has continued since. And that doesn’t seem to want to stop.

Here, we learned this week that the American Department of Energy has just recruited three (rare) American scientists climateosceptic³.

In this context. the indignation feint of American elected officials who blame Canada simply gives them the air of bad actors who play in a turnip.

I add that it is particularly indecent when thousands of people. on this side of the border, must be evacuated due to the lights.

I do not imagine our elected officials criticizing American politicians the next time one of the states is struck by devastating fires. that smoke will go to Canada.

I dare to believe that they have too much respect for our neighbors to do that.

Voilà !

If the Diplomats of the Canada Embassy did not have to show diplomacy. this is probably what they would respond to Republican elected officials.

And perhaps also they would quote. by finishing, the words of one of the great presidents that the republican party gave in the United States, Abraham Lincoln.

“You can deceive some people all the time. You can deceive everyone for a while. But you can’t deceive everyone all the time. »»

1. Read the text “Republican elected officials complain of Canadian smoke” 2. Lisez le texte « “Full on Fight Club” : How Trump Is Crushing U.S. Climate Policy » du New York Times (in English; subscription such powerful neighbor | bleam required) 3. Lisez le texte « Trump Hires Scientists Who Doubt the Consensus on Climate Change » du New York Times (in English. subscription required) What do you think? Take part in the dialogue