What Scheer Will Do As PM - Crystal Ball

[Zeitgeist]

3 hours ago, Dougie93 said:

Oh, and on the economic side of things?   If you're feeling manipulated or whatever? 

It's quite simple; stop being an Economic Nationalist.

Economic Nationalism is for the rubes, businessmen don't operate like that, divest yourself personally from relying on Canadian protectionism and socialist handouts.

Because this ship is going to sink, so don't strap yourself to it with the unions and the media and the rest of these totalitarian Canadians.

You and the state are not one and the same.   The government will not save you.

Because most Canadians are raised by the socialist teachers unions, college academics and the CBC state propaganda arm to think the an economy is all about having a sob story and then getting a government handout, they are functionally illiterate when it comes to business and competing in a global market, and so they will blow themselves up in the end.

It's not the Americans who are screwing you, it's the Government of Canada and associated socialist entrenched interests who are dragging you down with them.

Canadians have a Soviet Union like attitude towards economics, they want a walled off quasi-communist economy, Cuba North.

Just like the Soviets, it is going to collapse eventually, but you don't have to go down with the ship.

You can actually profit mightily by shorting Canada as the moribund Canadian economy starts to crumble in the face of the information age.

Basically strip mine these dingbats and laugh all the way to the bank, don't feel bad for them, Canadians refuse to compete so they are bringing it on themselves. never mind that these are the folks who would send you to war in an Iltis to be blown up and not give a shit about it, so they are not a people who deserve any loyalty.

Don't shed any tears for Canada, because really, all "Canada" is now is a bunch of socialist parasites sucking the economic life out of you to feather their own nests.

Certainly don't get yourself blown up in an Iltis for these CBCelites, but don't be an Economic Nationalist to prop them up in their Ivory Towers neither.

Take the money and run, to Florida.  Or somewhere in the sun belt so you don't have to put up with shitty Canadian winter anymore.

Well I’ll go along with your frustration with the long Canadian winter, but the rest is a gross exaggeration.  Canadians work and pay taxes for what they have no different from Australians.  Is that a fake country too?  Last I checked our citizens vote freely in elections.  No doubt the relationship with our large US neighbor has a huge impact, but America is just an intensification of modern western civilization.  Put that many people together speaking the same language in the west and that’s what you get, and the whole frontiersman revolutionary aspect adds other problems and advantages.  We’re all in it together.  All nation states are human constructs.

Edited June 3, 2019 by Zeitgeist

[Dougie93]

Australia is certainly no more independent from the Americans than Canada is.

There was a supranational state created in the Second World War,  Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand essentially became American colonies for all intents and purposes.

Only the Hegemons  have foreign policies, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand don't actually. 

This is how Canada can get away with having no real military at all, you only need a military to back up a foreign policy, but since Canada's foreign policy is only rhetorical, there's nothing to have to back up.

The American foreign policy backs itself up, Canada just sends some token forces along once and awhile when they get pressure from Washington to pony something up just for appearances.

Edited June 3, 2019 by Dougie93

[Dougie93]

Bear in mind, it's not actually a bad thing that Canada is not really sovereign and doesn't really have a foreign policy, because if it did,  it would not be more rational than the Washington National Security Consensus, Canada would simply succumb to its humanitarian interventionist proclivities and just get itself into the trouble and then have to come to Washington to be extricated from the situation anyways.

[cannuck]

Dougie:

Thanks for the thoughtful reply.  It was elegant and I feel extremely accurate.  The end of the Army (etc.) happened long before your recollection, though.  I was unfortunate enough to experience it when Paul Hellyer stuck his whack-job nose into it (under PET with full approval no doubt of his Communist masters, of course).

I am a Canadian citizen, but most of my businesses are in the USA.  Have shifted lately to align more with China as that is where the real action is - without having to deal with an army of ambulance chasers and petitfoggers playing the LLL (Legal Liability Lottery).  I will always keep primary residence here, as our kids and grandkids are nearby, and I will continue to try to demonstrate to my family and my fellow countrymen how to add value and create wealth instead of merely redistributing wealth skimmed from our resources.  Not feeling like abandoning my country, even though as you say it would make far more sense.

[Dougie93]

13 hours ago, cannuck said:

Dougie:

Thanks for the thoughtful reply.  It was elegant and I feel extremely accurate.  The end of the Army (etc.) happened long before your recollection, though.  I was unfortunate enough to experience it when Paul Hellyer stuck his whack-job nose into it (under PET with full approval no doubt of his Communist masters, of course).

I am a Canadian citizen, but most of my businesses are in the USA.  Have shifted lately to align more with China as that is where the real action is - without having to deal with an army of ambulance chasers and petitfoggers playing the LLL (Legal Liability Lottery).  I will always keep primary residence here, as our kids and grandkids are nearby, and I will continue to try to demonstrate to my family and my fellow countrymen how to add value and create wealth instead of merely redistributing wealth skimmed from our resources.  Not feeling like abandoning my country, even though as you say it would make far more sense.

Indeed you are right, sir.  The Liberal Party of Canada erased Canadian history in the 1960's and replaced it with their own dogma, much as the Nazis did in 1930's Germany.

The Liberal Party of Canada flag and the Liberal Party of Canada song and the Liberal Party of Canada "Canadian Forces",  their own subservient party military.

Truth be told though, there never really was a Canadian Army, 1st Canadian Army was simply a formation of the British Army in the Second World War.

All Canada ever really had was the Permanent and Non-Permanent Militia, collapsing the Canadian military is actually just returning it to its original state.

In terms of abandoning your country, a closer examination of it might reveal that Canadian Confederation is not and never was a country at all.

I never served to "defend Canada", it was simply an opportunity to do my part in joining the Americans to defend the Free World writ large.

Frankly, Canada is simply in No Man's Land over the Pole, all that mattered was blocking the Soviets from reaching the Rhine and Ramstein AFB.

So long as the Soviets could not reach the Rhine in seven days, they could not win, and so would not try. 

Conventional deterrence to preclude having to invoke nuclear deterrence in the breach.

Canada was neither here nor there, the mission was to prevent World War Three from ever starting in the first place.

If anything, Canada was undermining to that mission, as you say, Liberal Party of Canada Communist sympathizing fifth column for Moscow.

At this juncture, the Liberal Party of Canada has become the Soviets.  Soviet Union Lite in North Cuba. A new Iron Curtain against American freedom.

Like you, I am bound here by family, my wife and her family, and we also have a nice property here in Upper Canada which we have no desire to sell.

Luckily, Canadian Confederation, not actually being a country at all, demands no fealty of me, other than I pay the taxes to the Liberal Party of Canada.

The Queen is the country, the rest is just a boondoggle for Eastern Elites to install themselves as a new aristocracy, pretenders to the throne.

God save the Queen, God bless America, vive le Quebec libre.

 

Edited June 4, 2019 by Dougie93