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 nicely 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 simply won’t all be on the identical facet, so I wish to be clear about this,” he continued. “It’s MY opinion, and I’m keen to danger my future US profession, to face up in opposition to issues immediately, and god keen, for ONLY one other 3 years.”
The Load Me Up rocker pointed to Canada’s cancellation of the digital companies tax on Canadian income of firms akin to Amazon, Google and Meta as a foremost issue within the determination. 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.
“Lately, it was introduced that after a yr of an imposed digital companies 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’ve our visas, we should be denied entry if we’ve one thing unfavorable to say in regards to the present GOP, and I find yourself in a scenario the place I’m biting my tongue, and dropping what credibility I needed to get up and say one thing.”
Good went on to say he’ll lose per week’s price of labor however “giving up 30% of our earnings to a withholding tax, strolling on eggshells on the border, and actively collaborating within the silencing of opinions, is a much bigger price to me personally.”
“I notice that I’ve roughly .00001% affect on issues general, as this was just some thousand tickets, however I can’t stand by and be quiet whereas our wonderful nation is bullied into strolling away from billions in wanted income, continually left questioning if we even have a companion 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 mentioned 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 help for the band Texas King, which might have joined him on the exhibits.
The Whats up Time Bomb singer additionally took to Instagram after Trump first made his feedback early within the new yr about wanting Canada to affix the USA because the 51st state.
“I didn’t ever assume that one thing of this troubling significance would ever happen in my lifetime,” he started. “Yesterday the Prime Minister resigned. At this time, the incoming President of the USA clearly admitted at a press convention that one in every of his targets is to annex Canada by using what can solely be termed as financial warfare.”
Good mentioned 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, the vast majority of us maintain this land pricey,” he wrote. “From Haida Gwaii to Halifax, we’re Canadians which have the power to share one of the best 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 a part of me in doing so,” Good concluded his publish.
— With information from The Canadian Press
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