New poll says 27% of Canadians view the United States as an 'enemy' country
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It's kind of weird, but I'm not surprised. Mexico is exotic and just has a lot more historically going on IIRC.
Canada's history goes something like: The French start trading furs with the natives, the colonial British show up, the British take New France from
Napoleonthe French, they decide to shotgun-marry the two into a new country after the US civil war, and then the country slowly transitions from being in a geopolitics-free bubble run by the British to one run by the Americans (with a period of worrying about the two fighting each other).So, the big picture isn't exactly action-packed - in a way, we're having the most eventful period in the country's history now. (Of course, there's tons of other stuff if you want to look closer, including migrations, minor rebellions, the various schemes the British tried to thwart American expansion, constant flirtation with splitting apart again and Newfoundland joining)
Edit: Oh shit, I forgot the vikings. Yeah, they came and did viking stuff, and left some house foundations. Then all died out. And I should mention it had stuff happening the whole time before Europeans arrived, just no literate cultures to record it, so it's prehistory.
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What's more appalling is that 13% of Canadians have a favourable view of Trump. Do better Alberta. Do better.
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That's not funny. Grocery stores here are filled with people weeding out the American products, too.
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I mean, that leaves out the part where Charles III is our de jure (but not de facto) head of state.
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Yeah, that's like the one part of America that holds mystique for me too. I guess American Samoa has the weird timezone.
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I read this as Canada being the second head at first.
Which is actually appropriate, because we have a similar population, and would make sure the Republicans never win another election just like a second California (and besides the, y'know, French-tinged guerilla warfare).
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It's 1933 Germany at worst. Give them some credit. /s
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90% lol you can't even get 50% to vote
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but the person you are talking to didn't. That's the very premise of this conversation. Please find another justification, homie.
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Damn, you sure are good at getting people to rally around your point.
Keep it up, HOMIE. You’re really changing minds.
And by the way, since you’re so god damned self righteous, I didn’t vote for Trump OR Kamala. So what “uniparty” did I vote for? Fucking reactionary leftists destructing their own, that’s you.
Homie.
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The British took New France from France at the end of the seven years war with the treaty of Paris in 1763. Napoleon was born 7 years later.
Napoleon only sold Louisiana to the US in 1804 just because his plans were not working out with Haiti. -
Shit, wrong war between England and France! My bad, will fix.
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In name only. Canada is neither beholden or attached to Britain except by tradition,. Same as Australia, the Bahamas, Cameroon and 53 other nation states.
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De jure means the law as written, de facto means in practice.
Yes, in practice we're totally independent, but the fact our constitution says otherwise seems like a bigger deal than the cultural ties or whatever.
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Apart from the cost, logistics, finding a job…emigrating is terrifyingly huge.
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We give them no money, land or resources. We are not beholden to them to fight their wars or be involved in their treaties and our "Canadian Oath of Allegiance is a promise or declaration of fealty to the Canadian monarch—as personification of the Canadian state and its authority, rather than as an individual person". Source
We owe them nothing.
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I never said we did.
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They are compromised.
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That's because most Americans are ignorant to anything that isn't about them. I am an American, and I would definitely leave if I could. My passport ran out, and I will try to get another one, but I'm not hopeful anymore. I am eligible for a UK passport through ancestral means, but since I'm on disability, I can't afford the immigration fees. I have always felt like a second citizen in the US. My mother was from England, as well as half of my family. I have been there several times and I absolutely loved my time there. My ex-wife is from there as well. Not everyone in the US is a far-right cultist, some of us are just as pissed about the threats to you guys as you are. By the way, go Blue Jays, keep Vladdy in blue.
