<div dir="ltr">Ken,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for sharing your perspective from Canada. This is a strange and serious predicament for sure. It and the vast array of other actions from this Administration.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, also, for sharing Thurber's "Owl" story.</div><div><br></div><div>Blessings to you and yours,</div><div>Sharon Fisher (formerly Robertson)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM Ken Fisher via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>Most of you on this Listserv are American.</div><div><br></div><div>With 16 years in the O:E with so many of you, a decade of which was served in United States, my interior dialogue continues to be profoundly influenced by you and America.</div><div><br></div><div>Since America’s economic war on Canada has not been mentioned on this List, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I ask for the following to be included in your context.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></div><div><br></div><div>Since December, President Trump has been referring to my country as the 51st State, and my Prime Minister and Governor.</div><div><br></div><div>Since taking office, along with the coup d’état of your own country by Musk et al, he has launched a tariff war on Canada with the objective of destabilizing our economy to the point of collapse, which would then allow the United States to annex Canada.</div><div><br></div><div>Because we have become impolite about this prosect, he has likened our ingratitude to that of Ukraine’s.</div><div><br></div><div>In that President Trump’s behaviour is that of Russia’s, and that both countries border Canada, the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">following</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>headline bears your attention. We are a sovereign nation. We have allies that will help us defend that. As not experienced in years, young folks are enlisting.</div><div><br></div><div>How crazy is this? It is most real.</div><div><br></div><div>While it is true that in relation to the rest of the world, like United States, Canada is complicit in issues like Palestine, in the context of our two countries, this active attempt to destabilize Canada for the sake of American expansion - Greenland, Panama, Gaza - is utterly crazy.</div><div><br></div><div>With love for y’all and love for America,</div><div><br></div><div>Ken</div><div><br></div><div></div></div><div><div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><br><div>
<div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;border-spacing:0px"><div><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;border-spacing:0px"><div><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;border-spacing:0px"><div><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;border-spacing:0px"><div><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;border-spacing:0px"><div><div><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><div><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial">Ken Fisher</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial">1070 Elizabeth Street - </font></span></font><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial">Box 75</font></span></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial">Sharbot Lake ON  </font></span></font><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial">K0H 2P0</font></span></div></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial">Canada</font></span></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;text-align:-webkit-auto">613.203.0180</span></div></div><div><font face="Arial"><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial"><a href="mailto:kenfisher1942@gmail.com" target="_blank">kenfisher1942@gmail.com</a></font></span></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial">Ken Fisher @KandPtrail</font></span></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial"><br></font></span></div><div>Written in 1940 by American humorist, James Thurber.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"></div></font></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;border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