CFP:
The 49th Parallel is the longest undefended border in the world – 5,525 miles. And I have lived just below that for my entire life of more than a few decades.
Throughout that time, I have watched Canada (an absolutely wonderful country filled with some of the finest people on Earth) slowly lose a semblance of direction.
Canada’s rather puerile political status-quo
Since the second world war, Canada has developed unprecedented order and stability in a country of hugely expansive territory and immensely difficult and varied terrain.
Over the last several decades, it has become a country struggling to resolve critical issues. Instead, a type of thinking one can only describe as wish fulfillment has taken hold of Canada’s political establishment.
Canada’s rather puerile political status-quo denotes a type of wishful thinking that has been substituted for critical thought.
Here’s a classic example: To combat climate change, my friends to the North have unilaterally declared that global energy use should be radically restricted, despite the fact that billions of people depend on cheap and abundant energy, which renewables are nowhere near being able to provide.
Nature is unaffected by what we want to be true. The laws of physics are indifferent to our purposes, our wants and desires.
When we accept as truth what we want to be true, rather than what actually is, we become irrational, absent of sound reasoning. more
SEE ALSO: CBC reports Poilievre loses his longtime Ottawa-area seat
Who says a fix wasn’t in?
You have to remember that the US would be like Canada if not for the Electoral College. As a rough analogy, the parliamentary system would be similar to having the Speaker of the House as the leader of the government. The only people who cast votes for the Prime Minister are those in his or her riding (district). The Prime Minister is the merely the leader of the party that controls Parliament.
Many times, you know who will control the next government as soon as The Maritimes and Ontario have voted. Unless it is close, the votes from the rest of the country don’t mean a thing. Think the state government in California. There are many conservative areas in the state, but they can’t do much against the power of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Who knows, maybe Alberta will be begging to become the 51st state.
We all saw this coming, right?
Pretty sad for those of us that live along the border. Lots of friends up there – all from the west. They are just plain screwed. Canada will become a vassal state to the EU with Chicom overseers. Even though I’m a Trump supporter I think he went WAY too far on the 51st state stuff.
There’s a lot of similarities between the people Canuckistan and the people of Minnesotastan.
And we want to add to our burden of leftist idiots? No thanks.
I am Canadian and live in Saskatchewan – I hope Alberta and Saskatchewan, the only 2 “Have” provinces, vote to begin part of the United States (I like North Dakota and Montana). If not, I am 73 and hope to live another 8-10 years. Sadly, I must move to the “Belly of the Beast” AKA Ottawa, to be close to my daughter and nephew who are the executors of my estate.
I have heard Canadians call Pwah lee ehhvreh a “romney” or “mccain” so I guess I’m not surprised. Maybe the states will use this opportunity to separate.
Maybe if right and left spent less time trashing Trump and the US- and instead went after each other’s policies. Maybe the L and R are too similar in policy and they don’t want to piss off the chinese or the new ukranians.
JMM,
I totally agree. Alberta and Saskatchewan should be our 51st and 52nd states. If we could manage it, add the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, too.
Forget the rest of Canada!
Canadians-
Can the gov. call snap elections later on if the PM works their nerves?
Pretty damn funny really. Trump single handily destroys an entire nation of Libtards just by telling them he was going to make them our 51 state. I’ll bet he’s still laughing.
It’s no surprise that Sundance at the Conservative Treehouse has an interesting analysis of Trump / USA / Canada / Mexico / NAFTA / USMCA as related to international trade. Worth the time, IMO.
GREAT POINT, BRAD!!
THE TDS IS STRONG ABOVE THE 49TH PARALLEL, NOT SURE WE REALLY NEED CANADA FOR ANYTHING, CONSIDERING HOW THEY VOTE!!
Uncle Al
That is a good article. Trump wants “our” manufacturing back where it belongs. That Bi-lateral trade agreement protected Canada and prevented moving the bulk of manufacturing back. I wonder how long it will take that Canadian Libtard Government to figure out they got played. And it all started with Trump forcing the Princess Fairy Queen of the north to walk away.
MJA: an election has to be within five years. That is HAS to be held. If the Liberals really screw the pooch, there could be an election in a few months.
Thanks, RadioMattM.
A big problem is that the Canadian government operates as if they are in the world the way they want it to be instead of the world in the way it actually is.
Instead of annexing Canada, why not give them (free of charge) MN, WA. OR, Chicago, parts of ME, all of VT, and deport the denizens of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland to the upper reaches of Canada?
I’m thinking that the people were thinking, but that the fix was in and the vote was rigged.
I would have believed it was a relatively clean election, except for Poilievre and and Jagmeet losing their parliamentary seats. I guess the cheaters couldn’t resist. It’s an EU thing.
Early voting is too easily manipulated. All the restrictions against voter influencing at polling places on election day are out the window. People in Canada were shown heading to the polls in large groups to cast early votes. The Liberals were feeding group hysteria and then pushing them to vote while their minds were still spinning from TDS and a flair-up of the latent passive-aggressive, inferiority complex many Canadians seem to suffer.
The Liberals in Canada are finally reaping the benefits of their decades long open-border policies. Refugees were resettled to regional centers, farther from the border, like Edmonton, Calgary, Red Deer, Lethbridge, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, ostensibly to spread the impact of immigration. The underlying reason, the long game, was replacement. Those provinces were hotbeds of anti-federal sentiment. By putting their thumb on the scales with a massive influx of welfare cases to those provinces, they put them in play for the Left, while solidifying support in traditional leftist enclaves, like Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, pretty much all of Ontario within 50 miles of the US border, Vancouver and Victoria. (Obama’s handlers did the same in his 3rd term. They were sending multiple busloads and planeloads of illegals to red states and cities. I once counted 11 unmarked white buses full of illegals headed East on a rural highway in Utah, and that was only for the thirty minutes I was on that section. They should have utilized Amtrak, it being heavily subsidized already.)
I’m not sure Alberta wants to be the 51st state, but I’m sure something more autonomous could be worked out.