My friend and California Senator Adam Schiff, one of our greatest Americans and a very proud Jew, posts nightly 5-10 minute explanations of the distortions and dangers presented to American democracy and decency by the Trump Administration. This one (link below) is a message of gratitude to our Canadian neighbors, and I wanted you all to see it and remember that the vast majority of United States citizens do not take you for granted and that we are outraged by Trump’s disrespectful treatment of you as Canadians, our historic and ongoing friend, partner and neighbor.

Speaking personally, my mother was born in Canada, and she came with her mother and 9 brothers and sisters to Los Angeles in 1932 immediately after her father died. He had lost everything in the Great Depression and her older siblings believed they would have more opportunity to survive as a very large family in Southern California. I’ve been thinking that though I do not intend to leave the United States (I will fight in the best way I know how, through my writing, for the goodness of our nation, our pluralistic and Constitutional democracy), I may have the right to be a Canadian citizen because of my mother’s birth and life in Canada until the age of 15 years.  Who knows – perhaps one day I’ll live amongst you.

In friendship and gratitude for all the reasons Senator Schiff describes, and more.

Watch Senator Schiff here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcrL88Jwhsg