Canada 'will stand up to a bully', says Mark Carney

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I would think so but don't really know from a legal standpoint

What's clear now is that a contract with the USA is not worth an "Elon's promise" so any current agreement is basically null and void

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That stigma was mostly created by Americans ... They just don't want it for themselves

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It's inevitable though on a long enough timeline. We all know that the entire western US is literally running out of water, and eventually they're gonna want ours. I'm sure conversations have been had about how to get it, and someday it's gonna happen. When that day comes, I just pray to baby Jebus that Trump isn't the one in charge so there might be a shred of hope for a diplomatic arrangement instead of a straight-up invasion for our resources.

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the NDP forced them into action

Yes, and I'm showing that the action they were forced into was so small as to be essentially meaningless. So, that undermines their accomplishments, wouldn't you say?

This is like the fifth time the NDP has managed to change all our lives

All our lives? Again, is this dental plan open to everyone?

There's a reason they're not even the opposition, and that's because they can barely even convince left-leaning Canadians to support them anymore.

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oh, you mean the LARPing fucktards who couldn't pull off the insurrection a few years back? yeah they seem really motivated and organized

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That likelihood has dropped a lot. Liberals are seeing a significant uptick in recent polls, and Carney has a very positive approval rating (+13 was the latest number I saw). He's a strong favourite to win the position, and he polls very well in hypothetical matchups against Pollievre right now.

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I really really hope they continue resisting. My biggest fear is everyone gives him what he wants and the idiots I’m surrounded by cheer his victory.

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the idiots I’m surrounded by cheer his victory.

That's kinda the American way, sadly.

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Not to mention the countless young adults and teenagers that still think of Canada as a saving grace, nearly utopia-esque place. Their healthcare, prison and education systems have profound impacts on the minds of young people. Or at least they did a few years ago when I was in school.

In any case, you've got a lot of people in America that would much rather fight for Canada

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The latest polls still show a blowout victory for the Conservatives:

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/

I don't think it's at all likely that the Liberals could win another majority, even another minority. That sucks because the conservatives always wreck stuff when they win. But there's this determined "things are bad, vote the current party out" mentality right now.

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It's not the current numbers in the polls you need to look at, it's the direction of the trend. Over the last few weeks if you compare numbers from the same pollsters you see a very rapid move away from the Conservatives. The polls still show a blowout for them, and even if current movements continue, they'll show a blowout for a while yet. FPTP voting systems produce very strong outcomes from very small differences, so it takes a while for trends in likely vote intention to translate into changes in seat counts. But if the current trends continue, you will see those seat counts change.

There are no guarantees of course, but also you need to keep in mind that Canadian politics are very different from US politics. Our polls tend to readjust strongly once an actual election is called. Polling outside of a campaign tends not to be as reliable an indicator of vote intention as it does in the US where they effectively have two year long elections.

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Ford is also an authoritarian, though, and he's putting up a fight. Or at least he says he's going to put up a fight. I'm worried that he's just making a show of things so that he can roll over after the election's over and we can't get rid of him.

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I'm in the US. Fucking make it hurt. Maybe it'll make the shitstains finally learn, or at least kill off enough that this shit won't be a worry in the near figure.

Is it gonna suck for me? Yup. But it is anyways, so instead of the frog in the pot lets flambe this shit.

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Good on Canada and Mexico for sticking to their guns and not rolling over for Trump. Show him that winning trade wars isn't as easy as he likes to think it is, and then force him into favorable terms when he implodes his own economy.

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I mean honestly, what's the alternative?

This is basic game theory as far as I can see.

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The moose cavalry will handle it.

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Yes. This.

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You don't quite get it, in those ME countries US can kill a lot of people outright and then deal with the fallout of hate towards them, and due to the value of life there perceived differently, there will be both hate and resistance.

I suggest you look at typical casualty numbers of guerilla wars, it's one against dozens. That's when one side is "white civilized people" and the other "some brownies", so the former side has advantage and no reservations.

In Canada, due to value of life being perceived differently, the resistance won't be as significant if they don't commit massive war crimes, and if they do, they'll likely succeed.

This would of course be a reputational suicide for the US, and also lead to a lot of internal confusion, and probably even yes, "be the end of the US". But not immediately.

About honor and betraying allies - for the love of God, where have you seen honor in that kind of things?

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"Savage" resistance, "terrorism" and "brutality" are kinda expected in an affair which is by definition a lot of people killing each other because of a disagreement.

Additionally, they are used to environmental hardships the average American grunt isnt prepared for.

That just means some time and effort to prepare the average American grunt.

The nation is massive and full of inhospitable wilderness to melt into.

You can see a dog from a satellite in all of that wilderness.

I know it's fantasy, I just get irritated by fairy tale talk about warfare when there are plenty of wars disproving such myths going on right now. Your myths are not very different from what people in other parts of the world have or had.

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