It is Tuesday, July 1st. This is the warning.

Happy Canada Day. Every American should feel the deepest shame for Donald Trump's

misconduct and mistreatment of America's most important and closest ally.

The Canadian nation shares the longest, undefended border and world history with the United States.

It is a providential blessing for both peoples who are intertwined by faith, by family, by sacrifice,

by the deepest of connections rooted in shared values around liberty, tolerance, freedom,

pluralism, democracy.

Canada is a light unto the world.

Canada is a place of safe haven for the refugee.

And it was a place of liberty for the escaping American slave moving

north on the underground railroad. Canada is a country when the world was enslaved

sent its young men to free it. One of the three that stormed the beaches in Normandy

on D-Day, one of the stakeholders of the modern world,

one of the architects of the creation of 80 years of globalization and stability, of 80 years

of Franklin Roosevelt's Titanic Vision of Peace that has crumbled to dust within months

of the 47th presidency of the United States taking power. In this moment when mass federal

agents feel a license to abuse people, when there is no accountability, it seems.

When government officials assert what they will do to the people without worry about

what the people will do in the next election, then something clearly has gone off the rails.

What is it that we should think about this very specific moment?

When, as the minority dissenting justices on the Supreme Court have pointed out,

no American right is safe from a lawless Donald Trump executive order.

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