When is hockey game more than hockey game? When a president holds a pregem call out To pump players, a Prime Minister Postgame provides commentaryAnd monuments like Empire State Building and Toronto’s CN Tower Burned in national colors For competition.
Team Canada and Team USA had a brilliant hockey game of 4 NHL’s 4 nations in Boston on Thursday night, which can be a 3–2 victory by Canadian people suddenly in the time of death. But beyond great hockey, the game served as a dangerous will for the state of Canadian-American relations.
We have hit a snowy low. Canadian injury, and no mistake, Canadian injury will eventually be from the US and California.
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Any on-Ice Montreal does not imitate more off-iME than the initial-a-day game between two teams a week ago in Montreal. Angry Canadian crowd Glimpse American Olympic Figure Skating Medalist Michelle Quan and Noise “the star Spangled Banner.” Then three American players pushed it forward by raising three quarrels in the first nine seconds of the game as they “”Had to send a message,
Poor blood is on a spectacular trade war between the widespread apprehensions of the new US administration of both countries and Canadians.
Goons fight with words as well as fist. Final day, White House press secretary Karolin Levitt Said The team was ready for the USA “We will soon beat the 51st state, Canada.” Meanwhile, Canadian columnists are, “scaredOf the United States; One, Vancouver Sun Pete McMartin, recently wrote“Goodbye US. “
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Not since Wayne Greatzaki Hat -trick In the 1993 Stanley Cup final, Kings had such implications for California in a hockey game. Canada and California, who have almost identical population, exchanged about $ 30 billion Two-way trade In 2020, when Canadian Consulate at La reported that 774 Canadian-owned businesses appointed more than 76,000 California. Millions of Canadian passengers spend billions of dollars in California every year.
But Canada and California do not just share commerce; Hollywood is a great creative partner in our northern neighbor. “Titanic,” “The Revenant,” “Deadpool” and “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” were hits Filmed in Canada. And the golden era of television will not sleep without Canada: “The Handmads Tail” (based on the book of Canadian Writer Margaret Atwood), “Shits Creek” (Canadian Eugene and Daniel Levie) and even “Property Brothers The show is “Canadian.
It is appropriate that a game once echoed the Cold War of America with the Soviet Union, now reflects a newborn trade war with Canada. Di, we are talking about economic rather than nuclear destruction. And yet the phrase “mutually assurance destruction” still applies. A business war – it is like a hockey battle in which everyone loses with a long -time colleague instead of an opponent. The only question is how badly.
Take goons fighting in Montreal. Instead of playing his hearts for his country, he deliberately put himself in a penalty box. all pain No Gain. But this is what goons do. They select the performance on the performance, the spectacle on the contribution, I was the opposite of what the legendary gold-foot winner of the American Olympic hockey team of -1980 on us. All About this,
Goons never really win because they are all about pulling others down. Of the six fought in Montreal, No score,
This happens when we give our sports and governments to goons. Canada and California have too much to lose this stand, not at least at the intersection of economy and sports. 2026 World Cup – A joint venture of the United States, Canada and Mexico – features Seven games At the Sophie Stadium in English. We cannot allow the world’s longest favorable boundary to make hostile – to make a militaryization Limit 34 more than Korean DMZS.
So how can we get puck from where it is where we want it?
We need good people and girls to take out the goons out and deny ridiculous in favor of rationalist. Canada 51st state will never be formed Because Canadians do not want it, and it will give the Democratic party a Callie-shaped election. And remember the 2018 steel tariff that the first Trump administration imposed against Canada (among others)? You can’t, because they went inside Less than a yearWon the rationality.
Good people and galls can also help here in the National Hockey League and other cross-border sports events. If they cannot guarantee mutual respect for our national anthem, let’s find other areas of common land.
Try a moment of silence for our emergency personnel. The two countries have sent firefighters to respond to each other’s disastrous fire. past few years“Good neighbors are always for each other,” Alberta Minister of Forestry Said As he sent firefighters to Los Angeles last month, returned to the favor to 2023, when “California’s firefighters supported Alberta at the time of excellent needs.”
No matter how bad things look, no matter what the words are spoken, no matter how much fist is thrown, we are neighbors and friends, and will win good people and galls of Canada and California. We just need to speak them.
Now there will be a good time.
ML is the co-founder of the modern war institute at the ML Kavanugh West Point and can be more than before. ” @Mlcavanah
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