paxamericana

A few sip of true freedom usually straighten them out.

I would suggest you might be under a heavy dose of good ole american sarcasm. The phrase, "whatever it takes to get our friends to the north to like us" just screams out we don't really care. Personally, if Canada weren't around it'd be a pain to learn Spanish just so I can find another source of endless entertainment.

Not so much beef per say rather vast amounts of amusement. Its like having a disgruntled younger sibling that you can't help but provoke.

Lulululul....lul. what do you guys plan to do, apologize for hating on us?

This is the rabbit hole of intersectionality left. Their totem pole goes, women, minority, lgbtq, white male. In that condescending order. How can anyone who consider themselves a rational thinker ever embrace such train of thought. Intersectionality is the basis for reverse bigotry and evil. As I've said before if diversity is the goal, race is not a good metric of it. Also, we are a country of individuals not a collective so to categorize everyone into identity groups based on their perceived injustice is doing a huge disservice to the actual victim of injustice. https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/20/politics/harvard-admissions-affirmative-action-trial-money/index.html

Ya got us there, but i believe.... one day we will make canada great again.

Not really accurate. Immigrant from south america that your pm invited. We should charge canada a toll cost for inviting them to pass through.

Look, look, look, canada has a brain drain and that issue is real be it for economic or cultural reasons. Canadians who typically stay are more risk averse, placing a higher value in the familiar like family, friends, community. Not saying they are lesser for it, but it is definitely a choice and one that leads a decreased in available opportunities for other talented and more ambitious canadians who in turn migrate to the US.

Look at the hallmark of a "Canadian" identity out on display. Hate on america some more. If canada wants to be taken seriously on the international stage, canada should just admit it's dependence on big brother usa. Look at how many productive canadians move to the states for job leading to an ever increasing brain drain that is only filled by endless wave of immigration who in turn also leave canada. The ones that do stay are just victim of this hate on america psychosis thus creating a diseased population of leftover haters. I say this without the slightest animus.

Lmao, you've no idea how much fear mongering is done by the liberal media. Trump is a reality TV star but even he was outdone by Kanye West. Kanye makes Trump look like jeb bush when trump stands next to jeb. This Trump deraingment syndrome is hilarious to watch. Though the same was true when obama was elected. Look I didn't vote for trump probably for the same reason you all seem to be afraid about. But after viewing his policy they are quite good. At least for america anyhow. I do plan to vote for him in 2020 just because I like result and the opposition party has no real agenda to push except anti-white identity politics that is itself inherently racist. Race is not a good metric of diversity Canada, knowledge and experience from different walks of life is. Look nafta 2.0 looks exactly the same as the original nafta. Nothing has change Canada. Your identity still belong to us.

You're not wrong, most american do not care much about Canada because they just assume it is another state. Nothing special, no unique "Canadian" identity. In fact you'd be hard press when asking an American how are Canadians different from Americans. But whatever little we do think of you, you should know since you do care.

I was old enough to remember a time when the internet was not required to be a "safe space" for people's feelings.

Good the fascist can go to where they belong...in Canada.

I don't think you Canadians realized whatever little perception the average americans have of Canada is. We think it belongs to America like puerto rico. A majority of american view Canada as a another state. This notion of sovereignty doesn't really register.

Fact is it isn't. Though subject to change, their current policy of currency devaluation and import tariff reduces the consumer purchasing power thus reducing consumption.

You caught me, I am Ivan. Or maybe there is a real goal from global financial elite to put us under one world order and trump is the first anti-globalist president? BTW I'm quite aware of FSB subversion goals. Already read their manual remember... Trump speaking at the UN assembly " We will never surrender America’s sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable, global bureaucracy. America is governed by Americans. We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism. Around the world, responsible nations must defend against threats to sovereignty not just from global governance, but also from other, new forms of coercion and domination."

Not likely as they would see production of consumer goods move outside of china. Say to india ...

What about those of us who say no to your globalist agenda, those of us who says we can't get past cultural differences(imaginary), racial or other physical differences(real) not withstanding. I'm not on board with the globalist who think the entire world will get along and that no conflict will ever arise because we can get past our self imposed social construct. I'm not going to stand there and say every other country is unique and great, no, quite the opposite, the rest of the world are shit-hole because they chose to adopt terrible ideological social construct. I have no interest in respecting and/or adopting their views.

Quit pussy footing it and petition for statehood already. What possible benefit arise from being a semi independent country? Your economy and culture are already fully integrated with us. If universal healthcare is what you want then maintain it under state law. Its not like the federal government can change that.

Uh there is never a net loss of jobs, they just move somewhere else, somewhere more productive cough muricah. Production will eventually be automated and people need to move on to other jobs regardless of sentiment.

Because I disagree with liberal suicidal policies? I'm not about that welfare state. I think government should be limited not expanded. Healthcare is an individual responsibility, so is income, so is education, so is housing, so is life... er debatable, government is responsible for safe guarding life but shouldn't infringe on individual choices like abortion and assisted suicide. As for disgruntled canadians or anyone else who dislike american hegemony too bad, we won WWII so we get to make decisions for other countries.

I would argue against this part of the proposal. That's another form of apartheid and a time-bomb waiting to go off for future generations. That's why if we were to have an economic union might as well get a political union in place. Even if Canada get more liberal senate seats, gerrymandering is still in effect. The current system is pretty robust, look at how Trump got elected after loosing the popular vote.

As if the canadian diet is any different from americans... still going to need the same stuff we make here that are well priced and fda approved. If you eat steak, are you going to eat rare beef from argentina?

you're making me agreeee...keep pushing it and you're going to "SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE." Why not just petition for state hood; and not deal with this crap. You can keep all your pseudo groups under state jurisdiction. The feds can't do anything about. in fact i would argue the benefits outweigh any potential downside.

I would agree with you had that arguement not been used by various countries to cheat on trade. Time to take a stand. Might as well be over spilled milk.