Bellingham resident has message for B.C. and indignant Canadians | Daily Hive

Lots of parents within the States are speaking after elevated tensions between Canada and the U.S. flared over the previous week, and that features our buddies simply south of B.C. down in Bellingham.

We love speaking about Bellingham as a result of, as a lot because it pains residents, there’s nonetheless an affinity between the 2 areas.

Since U.S. President Donald Trump got here into energy and, extra particularly, when he began to say embarrassing issues about Canada, like making it the 51st state and imposing tariffs, journey to the U.S. has dropped dramatically.

It hasn’t stopped. This week, after it appeared hopeful {that a} commerce deal between the 2 nations could be struck, it collapsed, and Trump made one other daring transfer, signing an order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America.

That didn’t go over properly, and even Americans had been pushing again towards it.

What Bellingham residents are saying now

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Earlier this week, we shared a narrative about how Bellingham residents had been responding to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s tariff response.

In a separate submit on the Bellingham subreddit, somebody had a message for “angry Canadian friends,” and it elicited fairly a response from the neighborhood.

The unique poster wrote, “When you look south, beyond the rolling hills south of the Fraser River, I know many of you clench your jaw and can’t help but think of recent events. Most of you are I am sure tempted to point to the behaviour of the worst of our country’s people and ask, ‘What the actual f**k?’ I ask that question every goddamn day, to be honest, not at anyone in particular.”

“Many of us in Bellingham have very direct, intimate ties to Canada. Family bonds. Decades of friendships and gatherings across borders. Mutual love and respect of the rugged environment [on] the Pacific coast and coastal mountains,” they added.

They went on to say that they had been additionally enraged when the American “feds” started attacking Canada.

The Bellingham resident shared that many residents of the Washington area might simply as simply be B.C. residents.

“Many of us who live here in Bellingham and surrounding areas near the border are here simply because of work or school circumstances and could have just as easily ended up living in Surrey, Abbotsford, Burnaby, PoCo, etc.,” they mentioned.

The unique poster provided solidarity with Canada, saying, “My family and I are all elbows up. Always have been, always will be. The line on the map means nothing to my family’s devotion to the community.”

In response to the submit, most agreed, and several other commenters apologized on behalf of the U.S. and its loudest and angriest Americans.

“I’m still supporting our local USA family businesses, because well you are family,” a Canadian shared in response.

“We hate hate hate everything going on, the rampant destruction of good people’s lives every day by the very worst most repugnant of humans who should never be allowed to manage a crosswalk section for school kids, let alone the wheels of this country,” one other Washingtonian responded, including, “We miss you.”

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It’s value testing the post and seeing a number of the feedback, however you might want a tissue, as there’s clearly a variety of emotion between our two areas.

Canadians are feeling sentimental too. In response to one in every of our current tales, a Vancouver reader mentioned, “We should not let Trump divide us from our good neighbours.”

Canadian love at an American Taco Time

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While many Canadians have stopped travelling to the States and locations like Bellingham, together with B.C. residents who’ve instructed Daily Hive they won’t return whereas the orange man is in energy, some are nonetheless travelling over, together with lovers of American teriyaki.

In a separate post, somebody shared a touching expertise that they had at a Bellingham Taco Time, of all locations.

According to the Bellingham resident, they had been at a Taco Time the place they ordered $15 value of meals.

“I found out that the car ahead of me paid for my order, and the employee said that it was the ‘Canadian Kia Soul’ who did it. They have pretty flower decals on their rear window. So if that was you, thank you!!”

The Bellinghamster shared that they had been in a tough patch, and that the type Canadian actually lifted their spirits and temper.