“Before labelling me a traitor,” he writes in his “Pastor’s Blog,” be assured that “I am a patriotic Canadian, loyal to Canada’s historic constitutional order, but I am also awake to the fact that that order has been largely destroyed.”

The constitutional order whose death Reaume mourns supposedly lives instead, today, in the United States of America. “South of the border, Americans have maintained their right to bear arms, have found recourse in the courts for the COVID violations against business and churches, and are much more encouraging of the free market. Meanwhile, our homeland is being flooded with immigrants.”

Reaume, who earned his divinity degree at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, offers his flock an autocratic hero to match his politics. “If we appealed to Donald Trump to restore our social and constitutional order by annexing Canada, we would not be too far out of line with our own constitutional heritage.”

But what about the problem that Canada is further “left” than the United States? “Only those former Canadians and their offspring who clearly demonstrate loyalty to American ideals would be permitted to vote,” writes Reaume. “The other families could exist as disenfranchised persons on the North American continent.”