The World Series pennant: If not today – then tomorrow.

By Pepper Parr

October 31^st, 2025

BURLINGTON, ON

Will he have another temper tantrum?

Is this the day Canadians show the Americans what the country is about?

We have a public health system that is world-class – Americans often end up declaring personal bankruptcy when they are hit with huge medical expenses.

Canada has a banking system that works incredibly well – when there are serious economic strains, the banks are required to add to their reserves to cover loan losses.

We have a system of provincially led Ministries of Education that few have..

We have police services that “Serve and Protect”. Police wearing masks is not something you will see in this country.

The population of Canada is now very diverse.  We don’t have governments that work hard at deporting their citizens.

Everyone wants to see the Blue Jays win the World Series baseball pennant at the game tonight.

Trey Yesavage: A truly remarkable baseball pitcher.

We probably won’t see a repeat of game 5 when the first batter up smacked the ball into the stands for a home run.   Then the second batter did the same thing – this before many of the spectators were in their seats.

It could happen.  Should it happen?  Of course.

The President of the United States is behaving like the predator he is; doing anything to destroy the Canadian automotive industry – telling us that we are going to have to get used to a second-place automotive industry –  get used to it.

Will it be a different pennant statement this time?

Then the American Ambassador to Canada has the temerity to use foul language, addressing business leaders.  Several weeks earlier, he said he didn’t understand why Canadians didn’t like Americans all that much.  Talk about dense!

Winning the pennant tonight won’t make any difference to our tariff problems but most of us will go to bed feeling a lot better.  We did it!

If not today – then tomorrow.