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14 hours ago
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An American sent to Canada was shocked by how furious Canadians are at the U.S.
Canadians are well aware of the trade pressures and annexation talk from south of the border. But what do Americans think? New York magazine has devoted a sizeable portion of a recent issue — and its cover, featuring an angry beaver with a chokehold on a scrawny bald eagle — to the topic. Its headline: You Have No Idea How Furious the Canadians Are. Features writer Simon van Zuylen-Wood flew into the war zone that is Canadians' anti-American sentiment. He writes that he reoriented his algorithms to flood him with CanCon, turned on push notifications from Canadian news sources, 'and temporarily moved my family north of the border,' travelling with his wife and child, and making Toronto his new home for a month. 'I totally tried to Method-act and really put myself in the shoes of a Canadian,' he told National Post in an interview. 'To the extent that I was buying Canadian groceries and going to the Canadian LCBO. I tried to become one.' Van Zuylen-Wood said he and his editors hit on the idea for the article after the election of Prime Minister Mark Carney in March, which he described as 'an entire election … seemingly decided as a kind of referendum.' It solidified when Carney met with U.S. President Donald Trump two months later at the White House, during which Trump continued to talk about Canada becoming the 51st state. 'As I started to make phone calls from New York, it became clear that I wasn't fully aware, and Americans in general weren't fully aware, of the scale of the reaction against America and the depth of feeling behind that,' van Zuylen-Wood said. And so he got on a plane to Toronto. He'd been to Canada before, and had what he called 'a journalist's baseline awareness of global affairs with our northern neighbour (and) a little bit of of added know-how due to … extended family.' 'I know what the National Post is,' he said. 'I know what the Globe and Mail is. I know what the Toronto Star is. But nothing preparing me for what it's like to really live there, and to enter what I've been thinking about as a parallel universe.' 'Anti-American resistance was visible as soon as I landed,' he writes in his article of his time at Toronto's Pearson airport. 'At a news kiosk … the cover of Maclean's, the de facto national magazine, teased '20 Reasons to Eat Canadian.' Inside was a letter from the editor about canceling a vacation to Cape Cod.' When he picked up the following issue, it contained articles about 'Why Canada Will Never Be an American State,' 'How to Fight Back Against Trump's Tariffs' and 'Fear and Loathing in a Canadian Border Town.' In a grocery store he saw how 'Canada-affiliated products had been demarcated with red maple-leaf insignia — an official act of solidarity that complemented the consumer practice of flipping U.S. products upside down to make them easier to avoid.' He learned about apps like Maple Scan that identify Canadian products. He discovered that Premier Doug Ford — 'brother of the late Rob Ford, the scandal-plagued Toronto mayor' — had pulled U.S. booze from LCBO shelves. He even visited Grizzly Bar, a Canadian-themed Toronto watering hole serving cocktails with names like TVO Kids and Hadfield. It features a Wall of Heroes featuring framed photos of Ryan Reynolds, Leonard Cohen, Shania Twain, Margaret Atwood, Alex Trebek and more; and a map of the key battles of the War of 1812. Some of van Zuylen-Wood's finds were probably already known to many Americans, like Scarborough native Mike Myers' pro-Canadian appearances on Saturday Night Live. Others may have been news to New York-based readers of the piece, like the time that Jagmeet Singh 'was spotted attending a Kendrick Lamar concert' and 'groveled for forgiveness' from Lamar's Canadian nemesis Drake, claiming he had been there only to see the other headliner, SZA. Van Zuylen-Wood's article unpacks the shaky but incontrovertible Canadian patriotism even among some separatist-minded Quebecers, the well-timed speech to Parliament by Charles III, King of Canada, and the recent political gains made by the Liberal Party of Canada against the background of Trump's talk of tariffs and annexation. 'Part of the purpose of this story … was to bring news back,' he said, 'and to tell Americans that this place that you thought you understood and that you thought was this placid, easygoing place is not so placid and easygoing any more.' But in terms of, as he put it, 'rectifying that imbalance, reactions were what be deemed mixed. 'There was a reaction of raised-eyebrow surprise,' he said. 'The first reaction is, 'Oh my God I had no idea of the extent of it.' And I think a curiosity and an eagerness to learn more.' But beyond a sort of sombre head-shaking, and particularly from more right-leaning readers, there wasn't much sympathy. 'Certainly on social media I saw a lot of taunting reactions to my piece,' he said. 'Who cares? We don't need them. We're the big bad elephant in the room. That sort of thing. But it's not deeply felt, even among Trump supporters. No one is listing it as their top issue.' He reached out to political wonks and foreign policy types, 'and frankly they're thinking more about arctic security and critical minerals in Greenland than they are those issues in Canada. It was actually hard to find people who were thinking extremely seriously about this. It's not in the portfolio really deeply of anyone except Donald Trump it looks like.' And where does it go from here? 'I think it kind of depends a lot on Canadian sentiment,' van Zuylen-Wood said. 'My prediction, not that you should trust my predictions, is that it will reverse itself on the American side, in that I don't think there's a strategic game here that would go beyond Trump. Even a highly protectionist JD Vance administration I don't think would include anything about the annexation threat, and I don't think it would be quite as erratic and bullying.' That said, he spoke to some Canadians who claimed they were done with America. 'I talked to people who said, 'We don't care who the next president is. This relationship is over. We don't want to go. We don't feel welcome.' And I think a lot of people maybe mean it. For some people it'll thaw, especially if the next president is a Democrat. But my sense is it kind of depends on how Canadians feel.' True drinks strong and free: Toronto will soon have an all-Canadian bar Border bitterness is devastating cross-border tourism. But one Canadian city is bucking the trend Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark and sign up for our daily newsletter, Posted, here.
Yahoo
21 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
An American sent to Canada was shocked by how furious Canadians are at the U.S.
Canadians are well aware of the trade pressures and annexation talk from south of the border. But what do Americans think? New York magazine has devoted a sizeable portion of a recent issue — and its cover, featuring an angry beaver with a chokehold on a scrawny bald eagle — to the topic. Its headline: You Have No Idea How Furious the Canadians Are. Features writer Simon van Zuylen-Wood flew into the war zone that is Canadians' anti-American sentiment. He writes that he reoriented his algorithms to flood him with CanCon, turned on push notifications from Canadian news sources, 'and temporarily moved my family north of the border,' travelling with his wife and child, and making Toronto his new home for a month. 'I totally tried to Method-act and really put myself in the shoes of a Canadian,' he told National Post in an interview. 'To the extent that I was buying Canadian groceries and going to the Canadian LCBO. I tried to become one.' Van Zuylen-Wood said he and his editors hit on the idea for the article after the election of Prime Minister Mark Carney in March, which he described as 'an entire election … seemingly decided as a kind of referendum.' It solidified when Carney met with U.S. President Donald Trump two months later at the White House, during which Trump continued to talk about Canada becoming the 51st state. 'As I started to make phone calls from New York, it became clear that I wasn't fully aware, and Americans in general weren't fully aware, of the scale of the reaction against America and the depth of feeling behind that,' van Zuylen-Wood said. And so he got on a plane to Toronto. He'd been to Canada before, and had what he called 'a journalist's baseline awareness of global affairs with our northern neighbour (and) a little bit of of added know-how due to … extended family.' 'I know what the National Post is,' he said. 'I know what the Globe and Mail is. I know what the Toronto Star is. But nothing preparing me for what it's like to really live there, and to enter what I've been thinking about as a parallel universe.' 'Anti-American resistance was visible as soon as I landed,' he writes in his article of his time at Toronto's Pearson airport. 'At a news kiosk … the cover of Maclean's, the de facto national magazine, teased '20 Reasons to Eat Canadian.' Inside was a letter from the editor about canceling a vacation to Cape Cod.' When he picked up the following issue, it contained articles about 'Why Canada Will Never Be an American State,' 'How to Fight Back Against Trump's Tariffs' and 'Fear and Loathing in a Canadian Border Town.' In a grocery store he saw how 'Canada-affiliated products had been demarcated with red maple-leaf insignia — an official act of solidarity that complemented the consumer practice of flipping U.S. products upside down to make them easier to avoid.' He learned about apps like Maple Scan that identify Canadian products. He discovered that Premier Doug Ford — 'brother of the late Rob Ford, the scandal-plagued Toronto mayor' — had pulled U.S. booze from LCBO shelves. He even visited Grizzly Bar, a Canadian-themed Toronto watering hole serving cocktails with names like TVO Kids and Hadfield. It features a Wall of Heroes featuring framed photos of Ryan Reynolds, Leonard Cohen, Shania Twain, Margaret Atwood, Alex Trebek and more; and a map of the key battles of the War of 1812. Some of van Zuylen-Wood's finds were probably already known to many Americans, like Scarborough native Mike Myers' pro-Canadian appearances on Saturday Night Live. Others may have been news to New York-based readers of the piece, like the time that Jagmeet Singh 'was spotted attending a Kendrick Lamar concert' and 'groveled for forgiveness' from Lamar's Canadian nemesis Drake, claiming he had been there only to see the other headliner, SZA. Van Zuylen-Wood's article unpacks the shaky but incontrovertible Canadian patriotism even among some separatist-minded Quebecers, the well-timed speech to Parliament by Charles III, King of Canada, and the recent political gains made by the Liberal Party of Canada against the background of Trump's talk of tariffs and annexation. 'Part of the purpose of this story … was to bring news back,' he said, 'and to tell Americans that this place that you thought you understood and that you thought was this placid, easygoing place is not so placid and easygoing any more.' But in terms of, as he put it, 'rectifying that imbalance, reactions were what be deemed mixed. 'There was a reaction of raised-eyebrow surprise,' he said. 'The first reaction is, 'Oh my God I had no idea of the extent of it.' And I think a curiosity and an eagerness to learn more.' But beyond a sort of sombre head-shaking, and particularly from more right-leaning readers, there wasn't much sympathy. 'Certainly on social media I saw a lot of taunting reactions to my piece,' he said. 'Who cares? We don't need them. We're the big bad elephant in the room. That sort of thing. But it's not deeply felt, even among Trump supporters. No one is listing it as their top issue.' He reached out to political wonks and foreign policy types, 'and frankly they're thinking more about arctic security and critical minerals in Greenland than they are those issues in Canada. It was actually hard to find people who were thinking extremely seriously about this. It's not in the portfolio really deeply of anyone except Donald Trump it looks like.' And where does it go from here? 'I think it kind of depends a lot on Canadian sentiment,' van Zuylen-Wood said. 'My prediction, not that you should trust my predictions, is that it will reverse itself on the American side, in that I don't think there's a strategic game here that would go beyond Trump. Even a highly protectionist JD Vance administration I don't think would include anything about the annexation threat, and I don't think it would be quite as erratic and bullying.' That said, he spoke to some Canadians who claimed they were done with America. 'I talked to people who said, 'We don't care who the next president is. This relationship is over. We don't want to go. We don't feel welcome.' And I think a lot of people maybe mean it. For some people it'll thaw, especially if the next president is a Democrat. But my sense is it kind of depends on how Canadians feel.' True drinks strong and free: Toronto will soon have an all-Canadian bar Border bitterness is devastating cross-border tourism. But one Canadian city is bucking the trend Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark and sign up for our daily newsletter, Posted, here.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Would a new $150,000 limit be enough to protect Canadians' deposits in case of a bank failure?
The federal government's recent proposal to increase the insurance coverage for bank deposits in Canada to $150,000 aims to protect depositors in case of a bank failure. But would the new amount be enough? Financial Post explains who is protected, why the amount is changing and how likely a bank failure might be in Canada. What is the government proposing? Ottawa released a consultation paper on Tuesday aiming to get feedback from 'interested Canadians and stakeholders' on a range of proposals to do with deposit insurance. Currently, the amount of money that Canadians can get back if a bank shuts down is limited to $100,000 per category of deposit, such as a chequing account, a joint deposit or a registered retirement savings plan (RRSP), per member firm. This is guaranteed by the Canada Deposit Insurance Corp. (CDIC), a Crown corporation established in 1967. All large Canadian banks and many other financial institutions such as federal credit unions are insured by the CDIC, though deposit categories such as mutual funds, stocks, bonds or cryptocurrencies are not included. The government is now considering increasing the insured limit to $150,000 and providing even higher coverage for businesses and other non-retail investors. Why does Ottawa want to change the limit? The paper, released by the Department of Finance, mentions a number of reasons behind the proposed increases. For one, the last time the limit was increased was in 2005 and Ottawa wants to adjust the amount for inflation. It also noted that Canadians' saving patterns and changing demographics have increased the number of deposits that exceed the $100,000 limit, with fewer fully protected depositors. Uninsured eligible deposits, or deposits that are in excess of $100,000, grew by 594 per cent from 2005 to 2024 in Canada, while insured deposits grew by 183 per cent over the same time, the paper said. The proportion of deposits that are insured as a percentage of total eligible deposits has declined from 58 per cent in 2005, to 36 per cent in 2024. Increasing the deposits could boost confidence and potentially lower the risk of bank runs, the paper noted. It referred to the 2023 crisis in the United States when three banks had to be shut down. While Canada's financial sector was not affected by the fall of the Silicon Valley Bank and the other lenders in the U.S. in 2023, it was a reminder that large banks could experience runs that could quickly lead to their end and highlighted the important role of the federal deposit insurance, the Department of Finance said in the paper. What are the details? The paper mentions five proposals. Aside from increasing the insurance limit to $150,000, it also wants to explore whether non-retail depositors such as corporations, municipalities, universities, schools or hospitals should receive a higher deposit insurance of about $500,000 per category. The current insurance framework does not differentiate between individual depositors and non-retail depositors, but the needs of the latter group are different, the paper stated. 'Many non-retail depositors hold deposit accounts specifically for operational purposes, to fund their ongoing operations (e.g. transactional accounts to cover payroll, pay suppliers, etc.),' the paper said. 'Any delay or cessation in access to the funds in these accounts could be highly disruptive.' Mark Zelmer, a former deputy superintendent at Canada's top banking regulatory agency, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, and currently a Fellow-In-Residence at the C.D. Howe Institute, said he is not a fan of introducing different coverages for different groups of people. It further complicates the system and makes it easier for people to 'game' it. 'Let's say somebody manages their personal savings through a Trust, as opposed to themselves. Is that trust suddenly going to be a non-retail deposit versus a retail deposit,' he said. The paper is also proposes an insurance limit of $1 million for 'temporary high balances,' for a brief period of time. The payments that fall in this category include large sums that depositors hold for a limited amount of time, such as an inheritance, an insurance payout, a divorce settlement, or the proceeds from the sale of a home. Canada's aging population may increase the circumstances leading to temporary high balances, it said. Ottawa has also proposed asking banks to provide its customers with 'tailored information explaining the amount of insured deposits that are held' in order to strengthen depositor confidence. 'Recent financial market turbulence in the United States highlighted the impact that social media can have during a financial crisis,' the paper said. 'The speed with which negative information (whether true or false) about a financial institution and deposit insurance can reach depositors is faster than ever before.' CDIC members are currently required to provide depositors with general information about the insurance framework and about the CDIC itself. But they are not required to inform them about the actual deposit insurance coverage applicable to the funds they hold at the institution, the paper said. The additional disclosure could 'support financial stability,' the paper said. Can increasing the deposit insurance prevent bank runs? While the paper suggests a higher insurance coverage could mean that depositors are less likely to withdraw funds in times of stress and reduce the risk of bank runs, Zelmer 'doesn't buy it,' he said. 'If somebody reads in the newspaper or on social media that there are some questions about the strength of their institution, they're going to run,' he said. 'You run first and ask questions later. We saw that with Silicon Valley Bank. They lost most of their deposit base within a day. The insured depositors ran too.' Cristian Bravo Roman, a professor at Western University who is also the Canada Research Chair in Banking and Insurance Analytics, said funds today are more fluid and easy to to take out of a bank. As such, increasing the deposit insurance may not prevent a bank run in a single institution, but what it can do is potentially prevent the fear from spreading to other banks, he said. If the banking system of a country is perceived safe as a result of the protections, this would avoid an 'overall run' in the system. 'If a small retailer bank is having issues, people won't run to one of the Big Six to get their money out thinking that the entire system is crumbling,' he said. Increasing the coverage could help boost competitiveness in the banking sector, which is overly reliant on a few lenders, Zelmer said. If it increased the public's confidence in smaller financial players, it may provide them with more options. The bigger players are already considered safe, he said. But the benefit would depend upon how much premium CDIC members would have to pay. The government would consider the fact that any increase in the scope and level of coverage could lead to additional premiums paid by CDIC members and affect the cost of financial services to consumers, the paper said. This could decrease competitiveness, Roman said, if smaller institutions had to pay higher premiums and either charge customers more or earn less profit. The proposal did not discuss how increasing coverage would affect the premiums banks are paying, he said. How likely is a bank failure in Canada? Canadian big banks follow guidelines that are stricter than their global peers when it comes to ensuring they have sufficient capital on hand, so a major bank failure is generally deemed an unlikely event. There has not been a deposit insurance payout in almost 30 years. However, questions were raised about the deposit insurance in Canada in 2023 after the collapse of a few U.S. banks and whether a limit of up to $100,000 was enough. Some analysts urged the need to increase it back then, saying that the U.S. limit of US$250,000 was much higher. Ottawa considers hiking bank deposit insurance limit to $150,000 Canadians are finally getting choice in their banking, but will it last? Amir Barnea, an associate professor of finance at HEC Montreal, for instance, said at the time that the number needed a 'serious update.' He said that the number in 2023 should be 42 per cent higher just to keep up with inflation. In 2023, the finance minister temporarily received the authority, upon the Governor in Council's approval, to increase the deposit insurance limit, but it wasn't used and the limit remained unchanged. • Email: bcousins@
Vancouver Sun
a day ago
- Politics
- Vancouver Sun
An American sent to Canada was shocked by how furious Canadians are at the U.S.
Canadians are well aware of the trade pressures and annexation talk from south of the border. But what do Americans think? New York magazine has devoted a sizeable portion of a recent issue — and its cover, featuring an angry beaver with a chokehold on a scrawny bald eagle — to the topic. Its headline: You Have No Idea How Furious the Canadians Are. Features writer Simon van Zuylen-Wood flew into the war zone that is Canadians' anti-American sentiment. He writes that he reoriented his algorithms to flood him with CanCon, turned on push notifications from Canadian news sources, 'and temporarily moved my family north of the border,' travelling with his wife and child, and making Toronto his new home for a month. 'I totally tried to Method-act and really put myself in the shoes of a Canadian,' he told National Post in an interview. 'To the extent that I was buying Canadian groceries and going to the Canadian LCBO. I tried to become one.' Get top headlines and gossip from the world of celebrity and entertainment. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sun Spots will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. Van Zuylen-Wood said he and his editors hit on the idea for the article after the election of Prime Minister Mark Carney in March, which he described as 'an entire election … seemingly decided as a kind of referendum.' It solidified when Carney met with U.S. President Donald Trump two months later at the White House, during which Trump continued to talk about Canada becoming the 51st state. 'As I started to make phone calls from New York, it became clear that I wasn't fully aware, and Americans in general weren't fully aware, of the scale of the reaction against America and the depth of feeling behind that,' van Zuylen-Wood said. And so he got on a plane to Toronto. He'd been to Canada before, and had what he called 'a journalist's baseline awareness of global affairs with our northern neighbour (and) a little bit of of added know-how due to … extended family.' 'I know what the National Post is,' he said. 'I know what the Globe and Mail is. I know what the Toronto Star is. But nothing preparing me for what it's like to really live there, and to enter what I've been thinking about as a parallel universe.' 'Anti-American resistance was visible as soon as I landed,' he writes in his article of his time at Toronto's Pearson airport. 'At a news kiosk … the cover of Maclean's, the de facto national magazine, teased '20 Reasons to Eat Canadian.' Inside was a letter from the editor about canceling a vacation to Cape Cod.' When he picked up the following issue, it contained articles about 'Why Canada Will Never Be an American State,' 'How to Fight Back Against Trump's Tariffs' and 'Fear and Loathing in a Canadian Border Town.' In a grocery store he saw how 'Canada-affiliated products had been demarcated with red maple-leaf insignia — an official act of solidarity that complemented the consumer practice of flipping U.S. products upside down to make them easier to avoid.' He learned about apps like Maple Scan that identify Canadian products. He discovered that Premier Doug Ford — 'brother of the late Rob Ford, the scandal-plagued Toronto mayor' — had pulled U.S. booze from LCBO shelves. He even visited Grizzly Bar , a Canadian-themed Toronto watering hole serving cocktails with names like TVO Kids and Hadfield. It features a Wall of Heroes featuring framed photos of Ryan Reynolds, Leonard Cohen, Shania Twain, Margaret Atwood, Alex Trebek and more; and a map of the key battles of the War of 1812. Some of van Zuylen-Wood's finds were probably already known to many Americans, like Scarborough native Mike Myers' pro-Canadian appearances on Saturday Night Live . Others may have been news to New York-based readers of the piece, like the time that Jagmeet Singh 'was spotted attending a Kendrick Lamar concert' and 'groveled for forgiveness' from Lamar's Canadian nemesis Drake, claiming he had been there only to see the other headliner, SZA. Van Zuylen-Wood's article unpacks the shaky but incontrovertible Canadian patriotism even among some separatist-minded Quebecers, the well-timed speech to Parliament by Charles III, King of Canada, and the recent political gains made by the Liberal Party of Canada against the background of Trump's talk of tariffs and annexation. 'Part of the purpose of this story … was to bring news back,' he said, 'and to tell Americans that this place that you thought you understood and that you thought was this placid, easygoing place is not so placid and easygoing any more.' But in terms of, as he put it, 'rectifying that imbalance, reactions were what be deemed mixed. 'There was a reaction of raised-eyebrow surprise,' he said. 'The first reaction is, 'Oh my God I had no idea of the extent of it.' And I think a curiosity and an eagerness to learn more.' But beyond a sort of sombre head-shaking, and particularly from more right-leaning readers, there wasn't much sympathy. 'Certainly on social media I saw a lot of taunting reactions to my piece,' he said. 'Who cares? We don't need them. We're the big bad elephant in the room. That sort of thing. But it's not deeply felt, even among Trump supporters. No one is listing it as their top issue.' He reached out to political wonks and foreign policy types, 'and frankly they're thinking more about arctic security and critical minerals in Greenland than they are those issues in Canada. It was actually hard to find people who were thinking extremely seriously about this. It's not in the portfolio really deeply of anyone except Donald Trump it looks like.' And where does it go from here? 'I think it kind of depends a lot on Canadian sentiment,' van Zuylen-Wood said. 'My prediction, not that you should trust my predictions, is that it will reverse itself on the American side, in that I don't think there's a strategic game here that would go beyond Trump. Even a highly protectionist JD Vance administration I don't think would include anything about the annexation threat, and I don't think it would be quite as erratic and bullying.' That said, he spoke to some Canadians who claimed they were done with America. 'I talked to people who said, 'We don't care who the next president is. This relationship is over. We don't want to go. We don't feel welcome.' And I think a lot of people maybe mean it. For some people it'll thaw, especially if the next president is a Democrat. But my sense is it kind of depends on how Canadians feel.' Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark and sign up for our daily newsletter, Posted, here .
Edmonton Journal
a day ago
- Politics
- Edmonton Journal
An American sent to Canada was shocked by how furious Canadians are at the U.S.
Article content Canadians are well aware of the trade pressures and annexation talk from south of the border. But what do Americans think? New York magazine has devoted a sizeable portion of a recent issue — and its cover, featuring an angry beaver with a chokehold on a scrawny bald eagle — to the topic. Its headline: You Have No Idea How Furious the Canadians Are. Article content Features writer Simon van Zuylen-Wood flew into the war zone that is Canadians' anti-American sentiment. He writes that he reoriented his algorithms to flood him with CanCon, turned on push notifications from Canadian news sources, 'and temporarily moved my family north of the border,' travelling with his wife and child, and making Toronto his new home for a month. Article content Article content Article content 'I totally tried to Method-act and really put myself in the shoes of a Canadian,' he told National Post in an interview. 'To the extent that I was buying Canadian groceries and going to the Canadian LCBO. I tried to become one.' Article content Van Zuylen-Wood said he and his editors hit on the idea for the article after the election of Prime Minister Mark Carney in March, which he described as 'an entire election … seemingly decided as a kind of referendum.' It solidified when Carney met with U.S. President Donald Trump two months later at the White House, during which Trump continued to talk about Canada becoming the 51st state. Article content 'As I started to make phone calls from New York, it became clear that I wasn't fully aware, and Americans in general weren't fully aware, of the scale of the reaction against America and the depth of feeling behind that,' van Zuylen-Wood said. Article content Article content And so he got on a plane to Toronto. He'd been to Canada before, and had what he called 'a journalist's baseline awareness of global affairs with our northern neighbour (and) a little bit of of added know-how due to … extended family.' Article content Article content 'I know what the National Post is,' he said. 'I know what the Globe and Mail is. I know what the Toronto Star is. But nothing preparing me for what it's like to really live there, and to enter what I've been thinking about as a parallel universe.' Article content 'Anti-American resistance was visible as soon as I landed,' he writes in his article of his time at Toronto's Pearson airport. 'At a news kiosk … the cover of Maclean's, the de facto national magazine, teased '20 Reasons to Eat Canadian.' Inside was a letter from the editor about canceling a vacation to Cape Cod.' When he picked up the following issue, it contained articles about 'Why Canada Will Never Be an American State,' 'How to Fight Back Against Trump's Tariffs' and 'Fear and Loathing in a Canadian Border Town.'
