Almost from the beginning of the second term of office in the White House, Donald Trump is seeking about Connecting Canada to the United States. Many times, in a rather perverse way, he spoke about the country, calling him “51.”, As if he were part of America.
He was reacted to his words by the prime minister of Canada until recently Justin Trudeau. One of his entries met with a spraying answer from Elon Musk. “Girl, you are no longer a governor of Canada, so It doesn't matter what you say” – he wrote.
On February 24, in a post that has already been removed, he stated that “Canada is not a real country“.
Joshua Haldeman. Who was Elon Musk's grandfather?
One might wonder how the words of Elon Musk and Donald Trump's allied with him would react the billionaire's grandfather in the distortion, Joshua Haldeman. At some point in his life he got involved with politics.
Born in 1902, a man in Minnesota He settled in Canadawhere he worked in chiropractics and agriculture for years.
Over the years, he began to get deeper and interested in social life, which resulted in, among others conducting two Canadian political partiesone of which was the founder.
In the context of the views of his grandson, however, Haldeman's activity from the early 1940s seems to be the most interesting. The man was fascinated by American technocrat movementwhich he led Howard Scott. The leader postulated the plan of the economy ruled by experts, not politicians, which he took the young ideop.
Grandfather Muska sought the sovereignty of Canada and Greenland
Enthusiasm towards movement However, it did not take longand soon Haldeman became his fierce opponent.
As the son of a politician argued, disappointment was the result of the belief that technocrats ceased to oppose communism and supported the idea of ”total economic and military cooperation with Russia“.
In 1945, Grandfather Muska compared technocrat to “scientific Frankenstein”. He also stated that the organization It hits the sovereignty, among others Canada and Greenland through the demands of taking over their areas by the United States.
According to Haldeman, the US would do it “either through purchase or negotiations, or using armed force.” He warned that they were exposed primarily to the attack Quebec and areas Mexico.
He supported his arguments with quotes from Howard Scott himself, who claimed that “these foreign cultures on the continent of North America They should be annihilated“However, his goal has never been achieved.
Joshua Haldeman died in an air disaster in 1974, at the age of 72. His grandson was only three years old.