MONTREAL — With Canadians – and even Quebecers – rallying around the flag in the face of threats from the Trump administration, the sovereigntist Parti Québécois is struggling to find its footing.
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We’ve been doing this already, as two separate sovereign nations. Assholes turned it against us. You know, you read the news.
Current red states are parasitic to US as a whole. Military budget and insurance industries too. Canada’s economy is controlled as a junior partner that gives US veto over resource project funding from China or other US geopolitical foes, and embarrassing copying of tariffs on China without even consulting China. Trump BS was happening on a slower basis anyway, and a bigger Canada means better resistance to US coercion.
Canadians would be taxed like crazy to help pay that off.
The US is on a clear path to collapse, just from this debt. That is bad for Canada too, but in a way the collapse just means defaulting on debt, and banks/insurance going bankrupt. The oligarchy in US means as the country collapses, the ones who are saved are banksters, weapon makers, and tech. Secession of states, and joining Canada, can make both existing Canada and those states stronger
What you’ve said is true, but I still insist that Canada is not an imperial or opportunist country that is looking to gobble up states, even if handed on a silver platter. It’s just not really what we do. You are severely overlooking the fact that it would require a supermajority of support in both the seceding state and Canada as a whole to admit a new province/territory into the confederation. That is simply unlikely.
If the US collapses USSR-style, it would likely just simply balkanize instead of being picked over by its neighbours. It would balkanize either by region, or completely by states. What is probably more likely is probably another civil war, with one side completely winning or a stalemate being met and two or more separate USAs existing. But honestly, there is literally no way to know what will happen to the US going forward.
Gun to my head, had to choose, I’d say that America just continues to be a flawed democracy and returns to its isolationism that it historically always does inbetween major wars, probably suffer a major recession, and then has a civil war.
Current red states are parasitic to US as a whole. Military budget and insurance industries too. Canada’s economy is controlled as a junior partner that gives US veto over resource project funding from China or other US geopolitical foes, and embarrassing copying of tariffs on China without even consulting China. Trump BS was happening on a slower basis anyway, and a bigger Canada means better resistance to US coercion.
The US is on a clear path to collapse, just from this debt. That is bad for Canada too, but in a way the collapse just means defaulting on debt, and banks/insurance going bankrupt. The oligarchy in US means as the country collapses, the ones who are saved are banksters, weapon makers, and tech. Secession of states, and joining Canada, can make both existing Canada and those states stronger
What you’ve said is true, but I still insist that Canada is not an imperial or opportunist country that is looking to gobble up states, even if handed on a silver platter. It’s just not really what we do. You are severely overlooking the fact that it would require a supermajority of support in both the seceding state and Canada as a whole to admit a new province/territory into the confederation. That is simply unlikely.
If the US collapses USSR-style, it would likely just simply balkanize instead of being picked over by its neighbours. It would balkanize either by region, or completely by states. What is probably more likely is probably another civil war, with one side completely winning or a stalemate being met and two or more separate USAs existing. But honestly, there is literally no way to know what will happen to the US going forward.
Gun to my head, had to choose, I’d say that America just continues to be a flawed democracy and returns to its isolationism that it historically always does inbetween major wars, probably suffer a major recession, and then has a civil war.