For real, who is it?
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We'll never, ever have one. Here's why.
Our Trump would truly love Canada and want what's best for ALL Canadians, not just Canadians in one region.
Every Canadian lives in one of said regions and every region believes it's being treated unfairly relative to the other regions. The more self-sufficient provinces want the government to let them keep more of their money - the prairies - and the dependent provinces want more gibmedats (or donnez-mois) even if they're getting WAY more than they put in, because a lot of votes come from there (without naming Quebec.)
Name a province that thinks it's doing fine. I'll wait.
You'd need someone able to either admit his province is taking too much, or to come off as an excuse-making loser pointing a finger at the real culprits. Long story short you'd need a politician with enough balls to stand up to Quebec while garnering enough support to not need its votes. Furthermore you'd need someone rich enough to fund his own campaign, but in a business that's not heavily protected by the government (such as telecommunications or transportation. No Rogers or Bombardier people.)
NOW, if we had some electoral reform, scrapped the requirement that Quebec must have a certain number of seats (there's Quebec again, fucking up the whole system) and put in some more realistic representation, a Trump might be able to emerge. Until then? No chance.
Yeah and because Quebec won't vote for someone who can't speak french, our pool of potential patriots is so much slimmer. 95% of people outside of Quebec probably cannot speak french, but you basically have to speak it to become PM, it's lunacy.