Dougie93

but that is not what Trump has threatened to do all Trump has said is that America is going to start competing with Canada, as America does with foreign countries and if Canada handle that, then Trump has offered to accept Canada into the Union as a solution Canadians are getting knee jerk hysterical about a threat that was never made

reflexive Canadian conformist collectivism it is not socially acceptable in Canada to go against the collective because that is invoking American freedom, which terrifies Canadians

but Canada is in essence a lefty Liberal Marxist institution Canada is a centrally planned socialist nanny state which views Christianity as being the "opiate of the masses" I know that socialist Canadians fear & loathe Republican Evangelicals but I don't understand why you would fear & loathe Republican Evangelicals yourself

but what would you even be fighting for ? practically nobody in Canada believes in Canada's constitution and system of governance anymore why would you want to kill & die for ; ideological speech banning, arbitrary property confiscation & broken socialist healthcare ? what else is there ? Fear, loathing & resentment of America is not much of a cause to rally around I don't like Quebec and I wouldn't want to live in that nanny state on steroids none the less, the Separatists have it right ; Canada doesn't really serve a purpose anymore you could easily live the lifestyle of a contemporary Canadian in an American Blue State Massachusetts is more like Canada used to be than Canada is now whatever bank people are making in Toronto, they'd be making twice that much in Boston what Canadians call "middle class" now, the Americans call that poverty meanwhile Toronto has a higher violent crime rate and more gun play now than Boston does warfighting is a young mans game yet if they could have American citizenship, the young men would be evacuating to the USA Canada would be hollowing out like Newfoundland writ large sure, the Boomers in Canada are outraged by Donald Trump but the Zoomers just shrug, they couldn't tell you what the point of Canada is the Zoomers are already Americans by default ; since they live their entire lives on their smartphones by American social media to Zoomers, Canada is like the Iron Curtain, keeping them from escaping the Boomer socialist nanny state which needs to be propped up

Chief office worker around the water cooler in Ottawa / shrugs

but the Liberals will call you the Quisling, and they are half the population at least Canada is like a giant Ulster therein on one side are the Unionists let's say, not Orange Order anymore, but Old Stock Canadians as Stephen Harper said on the other side is the French & Indian Republicans ; the Post National State this is diametric opposition, effectively a civil war already in progress and just like in Northern Ireland, the American Fenians are now throwing gasoline on the fire

do you really think that you are part of Canadian society, as a devout Evangelical Protestant ? you are more of a stranger in this land than I am ; you are treated with either derision or as a fool in Canada MAGA Republicans are literally the only people left in this world whom would embrace you

not about the fate of Canadian Confederation I view Canada as being a failed state already I've moved on from wanting to save Canada from itself therein

you weren't a SAR Tech you were service support, swanning about in an air force love camp, followed by working in an office at NDHQ

they would have been better served if it was done by a civilian agency a non combat capable de facto civilian SAR service embedded in the military results in less SAR not more

full commitment to being on permanent coffee break at luxurious air force bases in Canada / shrugs

it's more accurate to say that the world is moving on without Canada, inciting Canada into an existential crisis but I welcome that actually ; with crisis comes opportunity

I really don't care anymore my Canada was the British North America Act 1867 the Canada Act 1982 which replaced that is a contradictory bastardized failed state mind you, according to the letter of the law, if you actively attempt to make Canada into a republic that's technically treason by Section 46 of the Criminal Code I am absolutely loyal to His Majesty The King, unto death as necessary but I acknowledge that I am the last of a dying breed therein ; a stranger in my own land

I don't actually suffer from Trudeau Derangement Syndrome he is an annoying & ridiculous fop but I don't blame Trudeau for the structural downfall of Canada which has been decades in the making I actually blame Pierre Trudeau and the Canada Act 1982 I was born under the British North America Act 1867 the Canada Act 1982 replaced my country with a new country, which has turned out to be a basket case and the poison pills are all written into the Constitution Act of this new country, the Post National State

why would the Russians be paying me to be a pro-NATO, pro-Ukraine, Loyalist to the British Crown ? at this point I would actually advocate for NATO to enter the war on the side of Ukraine engage the Russians head to head, even at the risk of nuclear war if the Kremlin wanted to throw me some cash for saying that ; I wouldn't turn it down

in broad strokes, Section 46 of the Criminal Code defines treason as attempting to overthrow the monarchy but how many Canadians actually defend & uphold the monarchy now ? the Canadian populace is at this juncture totally alienated from its own Constitution

I don't distrust Poilievre in the sense that he doesn't believe in what he says I just wouldn't trust the Conservative party in general to follow through on radical transformation to try to make all of Canada adhere to what Alberta wants ; that's totally unrealistic the better option for Alberta is to cede from Confederation and join the United States

Eastern Canadians are only blaming Trudeau Trudeau is viewed as being the problem once you get rid of Trudeau ; problem solved otherwise, the Woke Progressive Kool Aid that the Liberals sell ; Eastern Canadians still adhere to that quasi religion you're talking multiple generations now which have been indoctrinated by the public education system

the Liberals just have to ride the anti-Trump wave, promising to spend whatever it takes to prop Canada up shoot for a minority government if the Conservatives only have a minority, that government won't last long in a crisis

exactly. all elections in Canada are decided in the Greater Toronto Area and this is not Prairie Populist land round here the GTA is the PC stronghold Doug Ford does not like nor get along with PP at all Doug Ford would rather work with the Liberals

Americans don't care what government is running Canada Americans barely take any notice of Canada at all in terms of Donald Trump, I would say he actually prefers Trudeau, since Trudeau is the perfect foil for MAGA there really is no affinity between Republicans and the Conservative Party of Canada to Republicans, Canadian "Conservatives" are also big government nanny state socialists

why not ? the Liberals are the nationalist party in Canada and in a crisis, what are the Normies actually going to be clambering for ? massive big government intervention ; which is what the Liberals are all about

Canadians drink the Liberal Party of Canada Kool-Aid Trudeau was a ridiculous fop whom came to be despised for it but that doesn't mean that Canada has actually shifted to the right with Trudeau out of the way, just watch Canadians go back to their affinity for the socialist nanny state Alberta should just get out while it has the chance it's not realitic for all of Canada to join America but Alberta could do it, Alberta could be the 51st State

it's not Canada's industry the oil companies own the industry, international shareholders decide in terms of MAGA ; MAGA is not hostile to Canadian oil it's President Trump who just said he would restart the Keystone XL pipeline which the Democrats blocked but for Canada to have an east west pipeline to avoid Texas ? you're not going to find any oil companies willing to invest in that

it's not the government which builds pipelines the problem for Canada goes beyond the oil companies not wanting to invest in Canada's hostile market the Brent crude price is only $75 USD a barrel which means Canadian crude is only worth $60 USD a barrel which means its not even profitable for oil companies to invest in new pipelines in Canada and with America going big on fracking, the oil price is not going to go up, it's going to keep going down so there really isn't a business case for investing in Canadian oil