U.S. President Donald Trump’s talk of a 51st state has upset some Canadian snowbirds who are either choosing to migrate farther south or stay in Canada year-round instead.
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Now they’re spending summers in Baja California, Mexico, where they say there’s other Canadians, and some Americans. Politics is a prickly subject among the visitors, but Sharel said she feels for her American friends.
“It’s hard to see those people in a country that’s doing what it’s doing. These are kind, giving, generous people. They have a government that has no rules,” she said, adding that she’s “having a hard time matching the people that I know that are Americans to the country they are now living in.”
“How did these people get to that place to have leadership like that?”
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Muzechka claims she started to feel less safe living in Florida as tensions between Canada and the U.S. grew, saying Americans who moved into the neighbourhood “didn’t like us Canadians very much.”
She said that the attitudes of her neighbours became more hostile in recent years and that she no longer felt welcome in her community.
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As part of his job Parg would travel internationally, and he began to notice how international clients changed their attitudes towards Americans. “U.S. executives openly defending Donald Trump in front of European clients—invoking Hillary Clinton’s emails while ignoring behavior that made the U.S. appear unserious,” Parg wrote in an email to CTV News.
“The U.S. brand is destroyed,” he said in the interview, “and its destroyed for generations.”
He said that he doesn’t think it will recover in his lifetime.