It’s by no means a strange thing for a nation to commemorate influential inspirational people on their currency and their postage products like stamps.
Every time you touch money, or every time you post a letter, you’ve been hands-on with this idea. Honestly, if your picture makes a currency denomination or a postage stamp, then you’re a big deal, and almost always in a good way.
That’s why I’m absolutely convinced that Donald Trump will be commemorated on a national postage stamp.
I just happen to believe that the postage stamp in question will be Canadian.
Nobody in recent memory has done more for Canadian unity than the American president. Nobody has done as much to prod Canada into purchasing its military hardware elsewhere if not making it themselves. Nobody I can think of has pushed Canadian power-brokers into adopting an economy less reliant on American imports, and making it less essential to export most of our export products to the United States. Sure, there’s always going to be Alberta, but Canada isn’t found on the set of Yellowstone, and the rest of us seem to be coming together quite nicely, and in a manner impossible to consider prior to his inauguration.
Hell, he may be the reason we didn’t elect Pierre Poilievre as prime minister, and that right there gets you a stamp in my estimation.
His popularity is beyond doubt.
I sit in my fair share of coffee shops and waiting rooms, and I hear his name mentioned all the time, seemingly on the top of every Canadian’s mind and at the tip of every Canadian’s tongue.
I’m telling you, this guy is a de-facto Canadian hero.
Surely we can find a spot for such a man on some of our postage.
So move over Charles III. Step aside Terry Fox. Take a slide Norman Bethune.
It’s time to make way for The Donald.
I could only award him the five-cent stamp. Didn’t want to totally lose my mind and give him the dime.
NEWSMAGRENFREW 