Summary
A new Leger poll reveals that 27% of Canadians now consider the U.S. an “enemy” country, while 30% still see it as an ally.
The survey follows escalating tensions, including President Trump’s tariff threats and his suggestion that Canada should become a U.S. state.
Trump remains widely unpopular in Canada, with 74% viewing him unfavorably. Political affiliation influences perceptions, with Conservatives more likely to see the U.S. as an ally.
Liberals, NDP, and Bloc Québécois supporters view the U.S. more negatively.
What’s more appalling is that 13% of Canadians have a favourable view of Trump. Do better Alberta. Do better.
That’s not funny. Grocery stores here are filled with people weeding out the American products, too.
A little less than half of Americans are my enemy. This is also the same percentage of Canadians I consider to be my enemy.
The big, important difference being that in the US the naughty third is in control.
The new right, freedom convoys, AFD, and other far right movements are our common enemy.
I am a U.S. citizen (stuck in the U.S.) and I view the U.S. as an enemy country
How are you stuck in the US?
How am I stuck in the country?
My government won’t issue me a passport.
Aside from the extreme financial and planning difficulties involved with emigrating, It’s exceedingly difficult for trans individuals to get a passport right now. The department of state has been destroying identity documents of anyone who is currently or has previously requested an official gender change and they are not providing any recourse or remedy to the issue.
Just a “please leave or you will be arrested” when asked what can I do to get a passport…
Have you ever considered how expensive it is to emigrate to another nation? And then there’s the acceptance part, which anyone who has gone through it can tell you, is VERY difficult.
The uncertainty surrounding it is just far too much for most people.
I don’t have the financial wherewithal to pick up and move to another country. If I did I’d be out of here.
Don’t listen to that guy. Canadians know Americans, and we know some of you are fine. Hopefully it gets easier to come here soon enough.
you could go to vietnam probably
stay where you are.
You’ve fucked up enough countries.Oh yeah, because some dude working at a DeMoines McDonalds is really tearing other countries apart.
Get real, homie.
not your homie.
90+ percent of US votes for the uniparty and when it comes down to it they all support their imperial wars and profit from it.
They can go to hell.90% lol you can’t even get 50% to vote
Screw you. The peasant is not the imperialist.
@harsh From your values, sounds like I would welcome you to my country.
These libs now get a piece of their own medicine.
They wouldn’t give a shit about the rest of the world.
what is wrong with you
Oh, so there’s not another Country that’ll just pick up your tab and give you free food, a phone, a car, help you get a place to live and let you have one of their citizens jobs? Got it!
Historically Canada also feels that Americans don’t know much about us at all.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BhTZ_tgMUdo&t=331s&pp=2AHLApACAQ%3D%3D
You are correct, the only thing I know about Canada is your still part of the empire in some wierd way and you fought hard as fuck during WW2.
Kinda wierd I know more about Mexican history than yours
It’s kind of weird, but I’m not surprised. Mexico is exotic and just has a lot more historically going on IIRC.
Canada’s history goes something like: The French start trading furs with the natives, the colonial British show up, the British take New France from Napoleon, they decide to shotgun-marry the two into a new country after the US civil war, and then the country slowly transitions from being in a geopolitics-free bubble run by the British to one run by the Americans (with a period of worrying about the two fighting each other).
So, the big picture isn’t exactly action-packed - in a way, we’re having the most eventful period in the country’s history now. (Of course, there’s tons of other stuff if you want to look closer, including migrations, minor rebellions, the various schemes the British tried to thwart American expansion, constant flirtation with splitting apart again and Newfoundland joining)
Edit: Oh shit, I forgot the vikings. Yeah, they came and did viking stuff, and left some house foundations. Then all died out. And I should mention it had stuff happening the whole time before Europeans arrived, just no literate cultures to record it, so it’s prehistory.
The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed. They are connected through their use of the English language and historical-cultural ties. The chief institutions of the organisation are the Commonwealth Secretariat, which focuses on intergovernmental relations, and the Commonwealth Foundation, which focuses on non-governmental relations between member nations. Numerous organisations are associated with and operate within the Commonwealth. It is known colloquially as the British Commonwealth.
I mean, that leaves out the part where Charles III is our de jure (but not de facto) head of state.
I mean, they don’t. Their country is self-contained enough they don’t have to bother. I hear Chinese are the same way, if you can understand their language.
I would have thought this would be much higher than 1/3.
Wouldn’t say “enemy” exactly, but I think it’s fair to say there isn’t a Western democracy in the world that views the USA as a reliable ally right now. Because you’re a Russian asset.
Are they a frenemy then? A rival? A sibling that’s kinda strung out on drugs that you don’t know what to do with but still feel kinda responsible to make sure they don’t fuck up too bad?
As they should.
The poll is recent.
As a Canadian, this didn’t feel right so I actually opened the article and there you go it’s an online survey.
I think it’s telling that enemy and ally are closely matched…
Canadians likely have some nuance here… They don’t hate “us” the people, they hate “us” the country.
So 73% of Canadians don’t see the news?
Sir, we have Fox News in most cable bundles.
It’s all relative… Just like math.
The United States of America is the enemy of the free world
There isn’t really a free world but the USA is definitely an enemy
I personally would not be surprised if musk and trump will try to start a new Hitler era.
They’re already well on their way.
I think there’s a higher percentage of Americans that view the U.S. as an enemy country than Canadians.
We are Americans.
We are Americans, oh yeah!
We carry great big guns
'Cause we are Americans!
Oh yeah!We’re strong (we’re strong!)
And we’re free (we’re free!)
We are Coke, We are Pepsi
'Cause we are Americans
We are Americans.What we’d like to do for you right now,
is a short history of the United States of America.
First of all a short scene depicting the United States
of America, and their diplomacy.Hey pal, do whatever I tell ya!
No!
I got a really big gun here…
All right then.Yeah! Secondly a short scene depicting the United States
of America, and their economy, yeah!
Hey pal, gimme all your money.
No!
I got a really big gun here…
All right!And thirdly a short scene depicting the United States
of America, and I’m sure we all understand their foreign policy, yeah!
Hey pal, let’s go fight a war in Iraq.
Okay! Where’s Iraq?
Yeah!And finally a short scene depicting the United States of America, and the settlement,
the settlement of that great nation, we know and love as the USA, yeah.
Hey you Indian. Here’s a bunch of glass beads, gimme all your land.
No.
I got a great big gun here.
Nice beads!We are Americans
We are Americans, ah yeah!
We carry great big guns, yeah!
'Cause we are AmericansWe’re strong (we’re strong!)
And we’re free (we’re free!)
We are Coke, We are PepsiAnd we wear
Canadian flags
When we travel On our bags'Cause we are Americans (ah yeah!)
We are Americans (c’mon everybody, make like you’re at Woodstock, yeah!)
We are Americans
We are Americans
We are Americans, Here we go!
We are Americans
Everything I do… I do it for you.– Americans, Corky and the Juice Pigs [who were a Canadian musical comedy group]
