Dougie93

Republicans mass murdered over 300,000 fellow Americans in the Civil War, just think what they'd do to Canada

the Liberals are the Natural Governing Party in Canada, it was really only Justin Trudeau whom discredited them,

while leaving Canada exposed to being set upon by the Russians and more significantly the Chinese, Pyrrhic Victory

bingo. the leftists would of course be outraged if the power of the Crown was employed against them in this fashion, but they are perfectly happy to employ any means available to them to silence their critics, this is what happens if you don't have a First Amendment to the threshold of Brandenburg v. Ohio

I don't recognize the Canadian Prime Minister as my leader ; merely a glorified civil servant

it's not an American Presidential Election, this being Canada, I vote by Westminster Parliamentary Supremacy, which is for whichever MP I think will serve me best, regardless of party affiliation, let that local affiliation writ large determine whom forms HM Government, otherwise, you might as well just become the 51st State ; in for a penny in for a pound I don't rely upon Canadian industry for my prosperity, so I will just go with market forces wherever they lead me as you say ; free trader

but it's not just tariffs in a vacuum, it's tariffs, plus deregulation, plus tax cuts, even just the threat of tariffs has brought all investment in Canada to a halt, this war is only a month old, America hasn't even started to drop its bombs yet, and already Canada is reeling

the threat of tariffs alone is not enough to break Canada, but when you combine the threat of tariffs, with widespread deregulation, and tax cuts, Woke Trans Green Canada is royally screwed

Canada can go down in flames to help the Chinese therein, while America eats Canada's economic lunch,

sticking it to the Libbies in Canada, since it's just another reason companies will move from Canada to the USA,

the mechanism being employed here is actually the British Crown, constitutionally, Canada is a British Monarchy, so your free speech in Canada can be overridden by what is called the "King's Peace" therein, in essence, if the majority is going to get up in arms about something, someone has offended the state religion, the minority can be silenced under the auspices of "keeping the peace", anybody deemed to be a troublemaker can at any time be charged with a "breach of the peace", literally this is what the Founding Fathers revolted against first and foremost,

once this is designated as Domestic Terrorism, the PATRIOT Act can be invoked to employ NSA levels of surveillance, to hunt the lefties down and put them in the Super Max and/or Gitmo Billy Sherman knows

it's not just the government, all institutions in Canada, public & private, have converted to the Woke Progressive religion now, by way of the University indoctrinated Professional Managerial ruling class

Woke Progressive Canada elevating minority groups into Sacred Cows whom cannot be criticized in any way, is in essence the Canadian state religion now, superseding even the constitution itself

Canadians are for the most part knee jerk authoritarians, it originates in Canada's 19th century Victorian society, but then in the 1960's, Anglo Canada lost its British identity, replacing it with American Academic Woke Progressivism as Canada's new identity,

just wait for Canadians to overthrow their own system of governance, already in progress, a people without a history are easy to control, nary a shot fired

young Canadians were raised with "No Pride In Genocide" and they are broke as well, so almost half of them are ready to become Americans right now, where they would make twice as much for doing the same work they do in Canada 33% of Canadian Conservatives say they would consider being the 51st State if the Liberals win another majority America doesn't need to subjugate a Canada which cuts its own economic throat, while denigrating its own colours to its own youth America just needs to sit back and wait for disenfranchised Canadians to come to her, manifest destiny ; slowly but surely

Europe is relying on the Ukrainians & Poles to defend them, Eastern Europe as the bulwark for Western Europe, that doesn't do much for Canada in the Arctic tho

but since Canada would have to give up its parochialism and picayune socialism to do that, it's not actually going to happen, Canada is not British North America anymore, Canada is no longer the Shock Troops of the Empire, rather Canada is a soft as warm baby shit Cosmopolitan society now, Woke Progressivism as the state religion culture is destiny

Article V doesn't obligate any member of NATO to go to war for you, Article V only stipulates ; that member states contribute what they "deem necessary" in the event of it being invoked the Europeans could easily fulfill their Article V obligations simply by sending a strongly worded letter of protest even in the Cold War, NATO was never an ironclad agreement, it all relied on America to "deem it necessary" for America to go to war for Western Europe so it's back to going to Washington with cap in hand therein, Canada ; good luck with that

so here we come to the truth, "elbows up" Canada is in fact bluffing, Canada will remain an American protectorate by default, negating the need for America to actually invade, since America can simply blockade Canada to gain compliance at her leisure therein

I don't actually look to Canada for answers, again ; not part of the Canadian conformist collective anymore, like Mark Carney, I own a dream home on a dream property in Canada, but also like Mark Carney, I'm not otherwise significantly invested in Canada Globalist Free Trade FTW ; you can't have it both ways, Canada ; are you up for that or not ?

without America backing Canada up, I seriously doubt Canada would open fire in anger against Russia nor China if I was the Chinese, I would just call Canada's bluff and sail right through the Northwest Passage with impunity Freedom of Navigation in International Waters ; suck it, Canada

it's not a major order, out of 3,500 F-35's on order, Canada has ordered 88 if Canada wants to cancel the F-35 all over again, go right ahead, just another reason why America should not cut Canada any slack at all, that wouldn't come close to undoing the decades of Canada under funding its military, another 0.6% is not going to result in a capable Canadian military

the standard Canadian line, as if Canadian socialist healthcare was some sort of panacea, sure, Canada has more socialism, but Americans are twice as rich as Canadians, I don't think Americans would actually trade their economic power for the privilege of lining up for OHIP bullshit, there's plenty of lawlessness in Canadian governance and Canada does not in anyway uphold its treaty obligations