If Trump sends Palin to Canada, what’s next?

For everyone who supports Canada’s open border policy for newcomers, it’s time to reassess.

Apparently we might get one individual that nobody else in the world wants.

The woman from Alaska whose most profound statement ever was that “only dead fish go with the flow” apparently is a candidate to become U.S. ambassador to Canada.

It’s no surprise that President Donald Trump is considering Sarah Palin for this job. She is uniquely qualified.

As a native of Alaska the bitter cold in Ottawa — that’s both outside and inside government buildings — should not cause her the grief a Mississippi native might suffer in the same job.

The possibility of Palin coming to Canada should prove to my critics how wrong they were when they suggested Canadians needn’t pay too much attention to Trump.

If he can unload Palin on us, who is next? Kellyanne Conway to negotiate trade?

Trump has to do something with Palin. Whether he wanted her support or not, she jumped on his bandwagon in last year’s presidential election. Even though her endorsement speech was the most cartoonish of a boatload of cartoonish speeches and comments from Trumpsters, the president owes her.

Here’s some of her most memorable lines: • “Right-wingin’, bitter-clingin’, proud clingers of our guns, our God, and our religions and our Constitution” • “Can I get a hallelujah?” • “They’ve been wearing this political correctness kind of like a suicide vest.” Palin, a former governor of Alaska and vice presidential candidate in the U.S., is known best for the aforementioned nonsense that spills from her mouth.

In fact, many of us are nostalgic for the days when Palin was the biggest looney tune in the U.S. government. She’s got endless competition now — right from the top.

She was a master of fake news long before it became a mantra from a president who embraces everything fake.

Here’s one of her most famous lines: “As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border.”

Palin was trying to explain that being in Alaska, so close to Russia, gave her foreign policy experience.

Even at his most oafish, Trump must know that he can’t send Palin anywhere that she can do real damage. But he can send her to Canada, knowing full well that we’re so polite and deferential we’ll take just about anybody.

A hunter, outdoorswoman and allround “one of the guys,” Palin will have to learn she can’t traipse along the Rideau Canal, carrying her moose-hunting rifle. Our restrictive gun laws are an issue she might want to bring up with the mandarins in the capital city.

Other Palin thoughts she would bring with her include the fact there’s a department of law in the White House (there isn’t); that God, not the people of the U.S., elect presidents (apparently not in 2016); TV news makes her sad, so she doesn’t watch it (me too, Sarah, since your buddy got elected); and she believes that patients had to go before death panels under Obamacare to determine if they qualified for treatment (utter nonsense).

Oh and this gem: “Obviously, we’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies.”

On the subject of immigration Palin wants everyone who isn’t in the U.S. legally booted out. She also wants everyone left to speak American.

So Justin, you better start practising your “Howdee” to greet the new ambassador at the airport.