Canadian musician Matthew Good has introduced that he’s cancelling his U.S. tour dates in protest of U.S. President Donald Trump’s authorities and its ongoing tariffs coverage.
Good, 54, made the announcement Saturday on Fb, telling his U.S. followers that he can not “in good conscience perform my dates this summer time in your nation.”
“This isn’t honest to you, and I’m very properly conscious of that, however the fact is, each week that goes by, I’ve a deeper disdain for what’s occurring there politically,” the four-time Juno winner wrote.
“My world has all the time focussed [sic] on political consciousness, and I do know that you just won’t all be on the identical aspect, so I need to be clear about this,” he continued. “It’s MY opinion, and I’m keen to threat my future US profession, to face up in opposition to issues at present, and god keen, for ONLY one other 3 years.”
The Load Me Up rocker pointed to Canada’s cancellation of the digital providers tax on Canadian income of firms comparable to Amazon, Google and Meta as a important issue within the resolution. Prime Minister Mark Carney introduced late final month that Canada would cancel the deliberate tax as a situation of resuming commerce talks with the U.S.
“Not too long ago, it was introduced that after a 12 months of an imposed digital providers tax, we (Canada) are backing down from that, to appease Mr. Trump’s authorities,” Good wrote. “This was roughly 2 billion {dollars} in income that has been accumulating, and we’re strolling away from that,” Good wrote.
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“Add to that, the large enhance in visa prices, the concern mongering that even after we have now our visas, we should still be denied entry if we have now one thing detrimental to say concerning the present GOP, and I find yourself in a scenario the place I’m biting my tongue, and shedding what credibility I needed to arise and say one thing.”
Good went on to say he’ll lose every week’s value of labor however “giving up 30% of our earnings to a withholding tax, strolling on eggshells on the border, and actively taking part within the silencing of opinions, is an even bigger price to me personally.”
“I understand that I’ve roughly .00001% impression on issues total, as this was only a few thousand tickets, however I can’t stand by and be quiet whereas our superb nation is bullied into strolling away from billions in wanted income, consistently left questioning if we even have a accomplice or an enemy to the south, and equally as tragic, supporting somebody who has utterly bastardized the establishment of artwork and tradition within the US.”
Good additionally stated he would “invite different artists to affix me” however is aware of that’s “unfair.”
Good was scheduled to carry out in Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Buffalo within the coming days. He’s nonetheless encouraging followers to indicate their assist for the band Texas King, which might have joined him on the reveals.
The Hiya Time Bomb singer additionally took to Instagram after Trump first made his feedback early within the new 12 months about wanting Canada to affix the US because the 51st state.
“I didn’t ever suppose that one thing of this troubling significance would ever happen in my lifetime,” he started. “Yesterday the Prime Minister resigned. Immediately, the incoming President of the US clearly admitted at a press convention that considered one of his targets is to annex Canada by the usage of what can solely be termed as financial warfare.”
Good stated that his household fought within the Second World Warfare “for the freedoms and sovereignty of this nation, Canada.”
“I’ve travelled this nation extra occasions coast to coast than most ever will. And I can let you know with out hesitation that regardless of these petty divisions some try to advertise, nearly all of us maintain this land pricey,” he wrote. “From Haida Gwaii to Halifax, we’re Canadians which have the power to share the perfect of ourselves with others. And we do.”
“In all of this, there’ll come a time to face up and refuse to desert this nation and what it means to really be Canadian. I hope when that point comes, you’ll be part of me in doing so,” Good concluded his put up.
— With recordsdata from The Canadian Press
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