Recorded on Friday November 30th, 2068
Transcript of long interview with President Frida Sylvestre, part one.
Interviewer:
Madam President, let me first thank you for addressing us following your retirement, which was announced five months ago.
Frida Sylvestre:
Well, thank you for inviting me.
I:
Before anything, let me go over the defining early moments of your illustrious life and fruitful political career.
FS:
Of course.
I:
Your were born year 1992 in the city of Rimouski, then moved with your parents and family to Québec City area. Young adult, you relocated to Montréal and studied Political Sciences at UQAM, finally obtaining your PhD degree at age thirty three, after spending many years globetrotting as a digital nomad.
FS:
Yes.
I:
What were you thinking?
FS:
Well, I wanted to see the world, meet people from all places, get to know everyone and everything. My thirst for discoveries and adventures was limitless and couldn't suffer delays. Evidently, political studies were in the way and needed to be paused...
I:
So you got it your way, before coming back to your studies...
FS:
Considering the 2020 pandemic, yes. I was here visiting loved ones, finally enjoying winter time again, after many years abroad. I ended up staying too long, then got stuck here because the lockdown happened (laughs).
I:
So you stayed, even after the pandemic...
FS:
I did stay, didn't I?
I:
You did. So, after seeing the world, you got to contribute changing it.
FS:
Not quite. I was only in the right place at the right time. And I'm not being modest. I'm just saying we were mostly reacting to real pressing issues, we were fighting back, as we were individually and collectively facing perilous and potentially dire circumstances. We were under attack, we had to do something.
I:
We were indeed. And you became a central figure of the international response to what was becoming a global tragedy. Please, tell us about it all, from the beginning, as you never got to publicly share your personal account of those events.
FS:
Well, DD coming back as President south of the border started a global unravelling. From his first term, the world was already transiting from globalist to entrenched economies, from semi-openness to semi-closeness.
Not to say everything was perfect before his reign, far from it. World nations and economies were already nudged and pushed by many shadowy forces, as it has been for centuries. But what happened then, as we know now, was a totally made up crisis, initially fuelled by some dying industries, vigorously injecting widespread chaos turned organized bigotry.
From Secession War to WW2 to Born Again Christians to Tea Party to Brexit to DD 1 and DD 2XL, increasingly growing malevolent zombie hordes got to infiltrate, then ultimately destroy, all previously remaining world order semblance. Hell got to break loose and everything we knew then went down the drain.
I:
Which gave way to the massive changes you...
FS:
Not me, us all. The world ultimately came together, probably for the first time. As DD decided to kill all hope and suck Canada dry (no pun intended), we had to invent and engineer our way out. We were forced to. We had to respond to the mighty DD crunch play.
DD's seemingly improvised wrath against Canada led us to a cascade of nefarious events. First, DD forced arbitrary tariffs on the whole world, tariffs designed to specifically hurt us. Wave after wave of menacing rhetoric started to wear us down. Waves of tariff got to isolate us, putting us down. He wanted Canada to break, then fold. He lined up all possible measures and intrigues to ensure just that. He went all in against us.
I:
But why?
FS:
Because he needed to make an example. And it worked. I mean, he menaced, then got the EU, the UK and the BRICS to all turn their back on Canada, in exchange for less harm. He went as far as to refute all repeated Russian and Chinese incursions and raids in Nunavut and NWT as never happening fake news. This is when people here really started to suffer.
I:
We recall DD did everything to belittle and neuter Canada, first jokingly offering us to join the US as a 51st State, before unilaterally proclaiming our colonial status under US dominance.
FS:
These were real perilous times. People have to realize that before DD's 2027 failed coup in Ottawa, our group had already been active for two years. We started as a lobby group pushing for an alternate agenda, before becoming Canada's main force of resistance, against all possible odds.
The one thing we suggested as early as February 2025 was to bluntly call DD's bluff, so we could defuse all bogus annexation nonsense in the bud. We offered the following play-dead scenario: start a back-channel negotiation process with then administration on the basis of an unconditional transition for Canada's provinces and territories to be admitted together as a whole, as thirteen new states in the US. We were then convinced that such talks would have rendered the annexation balloon much less inflatable over a short period, while giving us a direct bilateral gateway for pushing an alternate agenda.
Our proposition was rejected by then Liberal government, and what followed is now history: over the next two years, we pulled out the biggest guns we had, which were like sling shot blows at the face of DD, unleashing a most brutal and vengeful response, which gave birth to our liberation movement, which led to the United Nations of Canada (UNC) we've seen blossoming over the last 36 years.
I:
DD, where does that come from anyway?
FS:
It started around 2026 mid-term elections. It became a way to name the bogeyman, without saying its name. What made DD stick was how it evolved all along. Just add one to his first name, or pick two: Darth, Dirty, Ducked, Dork, Dumb, Dick, Dodo, Done, Dying, Dead, etc. Very soon, everyone had its own preferred twist on DD.
I:
What was yours?
FS:
Ding-dong.
I:
Isn't a bit harsh? I mean, he was President, twice...
FS:
He was more a dictator that got elected, twice, than anything else. One may say the only genuinely authentic thing about this character was his surname.
I:
How was it while he reigned?
FS:
He ultimately showed us the very limits of democracy. By acting like a terrible two year old at every turn, by tirelessly pushing every boundary to the point of collapse, he made sure we could see the underlying pattern of every rule we once took for granted without questioning. Granted millions worldwide gave their lives for that to happen, but we could never get where we are without it. The process demanded that.
So at first, it was very entertaining, up to a point, then all became heart-breakingly disastrous. He was the simultaneous embodiment of a wannabe, a king, and a jester. Many things he ended up fighting against were downright societal cancers, zombie like status quo policies designed to trap people into nothingness. But his fixes were way, way worst, much like treating blindness with vinegar drops.
The shakedown that started with his second term was a pivotal moment in our history. He singled out Canada as a way to tell everyone else: look at what I can do, how I can single-handedly create my own martyr backyard, Canada as the next Ukraine, Taiwan or Gaza. He successfully turned us into the puppet scarecrow he needed so the rest of the world economic powers had no choice but to fall in line.
I:
Are you referring to Europe turning their back on us?
FS:
Yes but no. At the time, Europe, as for the US before them, was mostly falling for Moscow infused Neo-fascist rasputitsa. Any hope we might have entertained toward Europe was ultimately misplaced.
I:
Then Canada got to grow teeth and fight back.
FS:
We never really fought back at DD or anything of the sort. We only repurposed what was left of our country, then got carried away. We got lucky, too. Because let's face it, before DD's big bad move on us, we were just mostly sleepwalking through existence. Let's say we were never a real country, more like a vassal neighbour. We were still operating in colonial mode, from GB-UK to the US of A, from pre-industrial to post WW2 eras. And we were mostly existing as a remote mining colony more than anything else. While being presented with the choice between getting sucked dry or pushed to war, we got to grow a spine and invent a way out. It was a majestic moment in our history, as well as in world's history. It led us to Now, which is such a blessing.
I:
Please, tell us about your early days in politics.
FS:
As everyone knows, I came to politics as an anti-Trudeau the Second activist, joining Ottawa's trucker blockade during Covid pandemic. We had such great hopes for reforms, and we were truly in for a revolution, or something like it. But we couldn't comprehend the manipulative push behind all of it. Ultimately, it was entirely disheartening to wake up to the truth, that we were influenced by enemy powers, acting as unknowing puppet agents for a global SVR push on democracies. For us, the start of DD's second term was truly eye opening, and changed everything. We all have to remember how he, Moscow, Beijing, then Brussels, got to orchestrate the Global Remapping of 2026. It was brutal, as some places faced total wiping out, as other places experienced it. Kyiv ended up paying the highest toll, following Gaza, just before Taipei and us, just to name a few. These were the darkest days of our young history.
I:
Which was a few years before Central Ukraine joined us as fourteenth Free Land of UNC...
FS:
We all feel for Ukraine, even now, as we did during our darkest days, and let's face it, no other Free Land contributed more to the birth of the United Nations of Canada on the world stage. From there, our rise became unstoppable.