“Canadians have relatively few binding national myths, but one of the most pervasive and enduring is the conviction that the country is doomed” – Andrew Potter
This makes me realize, as an American, how little I know or understand re Canada’s history, and the dynamics behind it. Interesting, the part about bilingual bureaucrat elites, and the impressive Mr. P’s connections.
We don't want them. The most right wing Canadian is a socialist. Make the Canadian Provinces states, and the Democrats will have a veto proof majority in the Senate. It would also guarantee the net President would be AOC. No, thanks. We don't want them.
You people are absolutely nuts. We have no desire to be USians. We have driven you out every time you invaded. We burnt down the White House. We are indeed a multicultural nation, and that doesn't mean, as it does for you, that we have isolated pockets of different cultures and ethnicities; we are multicultural cities, multicultural neighbourhoods, multicultural, multi-racial marriages and families, That a disproportion number of "American" cultural headliners are in fact, Canadians, doesn't indicate that they are less Canadian, it merely indicates that they you are a bigger market. Half of Hollywood has homes in my part-time home of Vancouver. (We also have a home in Mexico, and the USA is just the place we fly over.) Since your tariff war, store shelves up here are stripped of American goods do to lack of demand, and a great many of us have no more affection or respect for the Democrats that we do for the Republicans: Biden, Harris, HRC, the Bush bunch, Trump (just another US president), who cares: none of them could be elected Dog Catcher in Moose Jaw.
Unfortunately I don't think annexing Canada and then embarking on a re-education/ deportation campaign there will be politically tenable for the foreseeable future
Why not? They're the dregs of society. Nobody will miss them. And I can think of one good thing that would come from a confederation/decentralized union: Free Movement of people, without the need for a passport.
"Free Movement of people, without the need for a passport."
The Biden administration tried that. That is how we wound up with Venezuelan gangsters. The Federal Court wing of the Deep State is blocking Trump's efforts to deport them. The Deep State sees those gangsters as Democrat voters of the future.
I don’t mean for illegal migrants, I mean only for citizens of each nation. Like the EU. Travel should be easier for citizens to go on vacation or visit family.
Why not? What a question. Don't know when due process stopped being the American Way. The Canadians can surely see a particular population of the US has become so against the concept of rights, even those that have defined our country since it birth, that there's really no wonder they want nothing to do with us. Really, our country has become so toxic because those who never liked what the US stood for have become too powerful. It's a tragedy to watch us sink to such horrible lows as this.
Illegal Immigrants aren’t citizens, so they don’t have the same rights. Illegal migrants broke the law crossing the border, so deport them. This should be common sense, but unfortunately we’re taught that “we all bleed red.” “We’re all one family.” Or whatever vague sentence you want.
Yes even illegal aliens have due process rights. Always have. Besides, those who rail against illegal aliens just want a scapegoat, nothing more. If they really wanted to do something about illegal aliens they would arrest those who hire them. That would fix the problem in no time, but it I won't hold my breath. If you'd rather spend bigly on masked mafiosi to run around snatching them off streets like we live in some third world banana republic, then going after the employers who want the sub-legal wages will never happen.
"The most right wing Canadian is a socialist." What a ridiculously false statement, showing how little you know about Canada. Canada actually has many people who are as conservative as anyone in the USA but are held down by an urban, liberal elite who dominate our politics and media. If Canada were to be absorbed by the USA, the politics of the former provinces would undoubtedly change, so it is not at all certain that they would all vote in Democratic senators. Politics is dynamic, not static, which means that those of Canada as a part of the USA would be substantially different than those that exist today.
Any country that could elect Mark Carney to any office, even Hog Reeve, is so left wing as to be hopeless.
Yes people can change. There are very few socialists in eastern Europe anymore, and Israelis who believe in a "two state solutions" are few and far between. But that kind of change is the work of brutal and bloody conflict.
I will stick with my prediction that if we make the Canadian provinces States we will have veto proof super majorities of leftists in both houses, AOC will be President, and I will spend the rest of my life in a DEI reeducation camp.
Met 5 Quebecois last year and 4 out of the 5 (the 5th was a 22yo woman and it never came up in conversation) wanted Quebec independence. One, was a former Sgt Major in the Canadian military who went into some big corporate job after doing 25 years in the forces. His main complaint about his company was that the upper echelons of management was totally dominated by 'Anglo-Saxons', as he put it. He was retired and had seemed to have had quite a successful career, but was a little bitter about a sort of glass ceiling in his former company.
He had voted for Quebec independence in the past and still yearned for it, but said it had become an impossibility due to mass immigration into Quebec of non-French speakers who had zero affiliation to Quebec, and would never vote for separation from 'Canada'.
It was interesting as I'd never met any Quebecois before so it was eye opening to hear their perspective. I now support Quebec independence from the Canadian regime.
An excellent essay. Thanks for writing it. One small point of correction: "Americans were also deeply involved in the push by the fur traders west as far as the Great Slave Lake in what is now central Alberta." The Great Slave Lake is in what continues to be the North-West Territories. The lake in central Alberta you're referring to is the Lesser Slave Lake, which is, I think, the largest lake entirely within Alberta (Lake Athabasca being split with Saskatchewan). But it is dwarfed by the Great Slave further north.
The best solution would be to annex English Canada and let the Quebecois be masters in their own house! That said, Canadians have this air and belief of superiority of themselves that is both hilarious and concerning. They truly believe that their sick care and right to die is somewhat acceptable and superior! English Canadians look at Americans with contempt the same way they look at Quebecois! No real identity sums up Canada except for Quebec. The 51st should be Alberta and Sask, the rest no thank you! As for Quebec, they are different and no doubt they could be on their own successfully! It's a shame we the US didn't jump on Bombardier when they were in trouble instead of watching Airbus take them over!
Pretty bad take on the weaknesses within the Canadian psyche vis-a-vis the American, which can be summed up by way of this such conclusion, in this transparently American-elitist self-serving article:
"The ill-thought out multiculturalism policy has borne its bitter fruit with large anti-Semitic marches, a proliferation of ethnic self-aggrandizement, and a collapse in Canadian patriotism."
I live in Edmonton, Alberta, of British Isles heritage, ... all branches of the family coming here to Alberta in the 1910's, from Hebrides Scotland, Ireland, and Northern England, except for one branch that also came here in the 1910's, of similar root stock (Irish & Scottish Hebrides) but by way of much earlier emigrations to Massachusetts/Pennsylvania/Nova Scotia.
The nature of the Canadian body politic allows for anti-Zionist opinion, which to my mind is very much warranted, as per any level-headed analysis of current geopolitics, whereas in America, each subsequent presidential administration, along with the your legislative branch, for decades now, have become more and more beholden to Zionist interests, which are rather rotten interests, at the expense of pretty much everyone else on earth. Current day America, as such, is a twisted perverted thing. Good thing not to be that. America has a civil war in its near future, as spawned by the Zionist subversion, now coming to head, as untenable. Good luck with that, I guess. Canada should not serve as a distraction to your own huge and unexamined Zionist-perversion problems, which have become the world's problems, because of the massive American geopolitical power. Looking at America from my vantage point, I see a great tragedy unfolding upon a nation that otherwise, should hold such continued great promise, for all and all nations. It now doesn't (and that has been a slow march, gaining more and more steam for a long time now, to this, the now awful current facts). It's an awful shame. Canada can not be annexed for this central reason, alone. We cannot agree to join given this Zionist subversion, apparent everywhere in the west, but oh so much more particularly in the U.S. At some point in the mid-future American patriots will be thanking their lucky stars, having a nation such of Canada, with its particular psyche, as best ally and neighbor, to be there for you, in your time of need, as thoroughly now confused.
Thank you for your post! It is quite astonishing how little grasp our neighbours to the south have of the differences between their culture and Canadian culture, or for that matter, between their culture and the rest of human culture. The offhand statement that we have "large anti-semitic marches" was one of dozens of absurd contentions that jumped off the page for me. (We do, to our credit, hold large anti-Zionist and anti-Genocide demonstrations.) Another oddity that struck me was that the discussion of language failed to grasp/acknowledge that over 40% of Canadians speak 2 or more languages — more than twice the percentage of Americans.
I think both countries (Canada and the US) are in a state that is beyond political fixes by the usual suspects. It's indeed laughable that the Canadian electorate are now considering re-electing the same mob of traitors and criminals who put the country in the current mess that it's in, and now headed by a career bureau(c)rat and globalist stooge.
Despite all the Trumpian bluster and hype about MAGA, the corruption and criminality is so firmly entrenched in the deep state, that the odds of him clearing it out are remote. It should be obvious to all by now, that the Ziocons have him firmly in hand, and they are the ones firmly entrenched and controlling of the deep state.
In addition, it seems to me that both nations are in the incipient stages of financial collapse, which I suspect will be quite severe. Any talk of the futility, or undesirability, of Canadian annexation is understandable. I have an inkling that Canada won't survive the collapse, as the predicament will soon turn to every many for himself, and the pieces will re-form (or not) according to their own best interests (and which won't include a federation from coast to coast, republican or otherwise).
Well written. I would note that during the War of 1812, in Michigan when Detroit was captured, a major component of their force were not Canadian nor British, they were allied with the forces of Tecumseh's confederacy who provided a larger share of the force than Canadians did
Yeah, that statement was particularly jarring. Anti-Semitism in Canada has never been inspired by the demos, much less publicly demonstrated for (the exception being perhaps elements of the Klan, which mostly had other priorities) so much as exercised by the oligarchic elements so skilfully referenced in this essay — exclusion from clubs being typical, and perhaps most notoriously evident in the “none is too many” attitude towards accepting refugees from the Nazis in the 1930s.
Glossing demonstrations against mistreatment of Palestinians (in some cases including participation of a considerable number of Jews themselves) as axiomatically “anti-Semitic” requires acceptance of a peculiarly American (embraced also by elements of the Israeli political spectrum) definition, one that bizarrely fails to grasp what “Semitic” means in the first place.
I agree with the second part but the first part is off from what I know of them, Tecumseh's confederacy had a singular purpose and it was based around 1) preventing further territorial loss from American expansion and 2) the regaining, if possible, of any territories they could that had already been lost (Michigan was a territory that a hefty portion of their constituent tribes had been forced from), so they by definition could not have sided with America
I’ve liked this because I learnt some stuff, but how do you explain the apparently overwhelming opposition to annexation in Canada today and the fact that anti-annexationist sentiment appears to have brought the Liberal party back from the brink of death? Is this compatible with the idea that Canada doesn’t have a national identity?
(Also: “The taxation of those resources beginning in 1974 ... The people of the prairie provinces correctly saw the programs initiated in Ontario with support of the eastern provinces as redistributing their fairly earned wealth”. Fairly earned wealth? Did they put the oil in the ground?)
It's ideological opposition to Trump & the Republicans, as well as sectional hatred for America. It has little to do with Canadian nationalism, a dead force since the 1960s. Support for the British Empire was replaced by support for the "international community" as a result of the breaking of the old British ties in the 1960s.
Don’t underestimate also simple revulsion for the death cult that is neoliberalism, a system which has gripped the US perhaps more desperately than any other western country (the UK being a close second) though most Canadians likely wouldn’t be able to identify the source of their discomfort, the propaganda on behalf of that hegemonic sociopolitical enterprise having been so overwhelmingly successful. A non-trivial number of Canadians cling to what scraps of our welfare state (most notably our system of socialized medicine as its totem) remain as evidence of some sort of signal, however attenuated, that we can choose a different path than our southern neighbours.
"The consequences of state multiculturalism and bilingualismwere difficult for the people in the 1960s and 1970s to imagine. Rhetoric leads to commitment, and commitment in time means the enactment of policies. Policies require bureaucracies, and those bureaucracies, in time, find reasons to expand their reach far beyond the initial intentions of activists and politicians."
- As so few English speakers bother learning a 2nd language, whilst English fluency is mandatory for any international commerce, does this mean in practice that the Canadian bureaucracy is relatively dominated by traitorous native Quebecois and African Francophone immigrants?
yes - the political class is far more closed than it is in the United States, where even ordinary people can enter politics quite late in life without much preparation
Alberta and Saskatchewan (to a lesser degree Manitoba) most resemble America, and could be admitted upon application. The other provinces should be kept out.
This makes me realize, as an American, how little I know or understand re Canada’s history, and the dynamics behind it. Interesting, the part about bilingual bureaucrat elites, and the impressive Mr. P’s connections.
I hope Canada makes it
We don't want them. The most right wing Canadian is a socialist. Make the Canadian Provinces states, and the Democrats will have a veto proof majority in the Senate. It would also guarantee the net President would be AOC. No, thanks. We don't want them.
The feeling is mutual my friend.
That’s why they won’t be made states right away, there would be deportations for migrants, and reeducation for the citizenry who are leftists.
You people are absolutely nuts. We have no desire to be USians. We have driven you out every time you invaded. We burnt down the White House. We are indeed a multicultural nation, and that doesn't mean, as it does for you, that we have isolated pockets of different cultures and ethnicities; we are multicultural cities, multicultural neighbourhoods, multicultural, multi-racial marriages and families, That a disproportion number of "American" cultural headliners are in fact, Canadians, doesn't indicate that they are less Canadian, it merely indicates that they you are a bigger market. Half of Hollywood has homes in my part-time home of Vancouver. (We also have a home in Mexico, and the USA is just the place we fly over.) Since your tariff war, store shelves up here are stripped of American goods do to lack of demand, and a great many of us have no more affection or respect for the Democrats that we do for the Republicans: Biden, Harris, HRC, the Bush bunch, Trump (just another US president), who cares: none of them could be elected Dog Catcher in Moose Jaw.
No, we didn't "burnt [sic] the White House." British armed forces did that, none of whom were from Upper or Lower Canada.
Unfortunately I don't think annexing Canada and then embarking on a re-education/ deportation campaign there will be politically tenable for the foreseeable future
Perhaps you’re right, this is all just speculation on my part and it would be decades in the making anyway. Peace ✌🏻
Deportations? We can't deport illegal alien gangsters. There is no upside in annexing Canada.
Why not? They're the dregs of society. Nobody will miss them. And I can think of one good thing that would come from a confederation/decentralized union: Free Movement of people, without the need for a passport.
Having done this Jeffy and clearly others haven’t;
There are existing in use sea and air routes from Russia into Canada which means the resources of Asia are available to any Canadian resistance.
Which means we 🇺🇸 can’t play around.
Which means we would have to be genocidal to any resistance.
Especially the whites who fight.
I respect their abilities, which is why I say genocide or leave it alone.
So no. Let Canada overthrow their wretched oligarchy.
Or not.
Fair enough.
Not being a dyck here, sorry .
We have to face some hard facts when we start thinking of war.
We have no exit here, nor given lines of logistics to Asia any room to be restrained with anyone fighting us.
At the end our blood stained selves would be sharing a shrinking, melting border with Russia and Asia. Less than ideal if bloodless - and it won’t be.
"Free Movement of people, without the need for a passport."
The Biden administration tried that. That is how we wound up with Venezuelan gangsters. The Federal Court wing of the Deep State is blocking Trump's efforts to deport them. The Deep State sees those gangsters as Democrat voters of the future.
I don’t mean for illegal migrants, I mean only for citizens of each nation. Like the EU. Travel should be easier for citizens to go on vacation or visit family.
Why not? What a question. Don't know when due process stopped being the American Way. The Canadians can surely see a particular population of the US has become so against the concept of rights, even those that have defined our country since it birth, that there's really no wonder they want nothing to do with us. Really, our country has become so toxic because those who never liked what the US stood for have become too powerful. It's a tragedy to watch us sink to such horrible lows as this.
Illegal Immigrants aren’t citizens, so they don’t have the same rights. Illegal migrants broke the law crossing the border, so deport them. This should be common sense, but unfortunately we’re taught that “we all bleed red.” “We’re all one family.” Or whatever vague sentence you want.
Yes even illegal aliens have due process rights. Always have. Besides, those who rail against illegal aliens just want a scapegoat, nothing more. If they really wanted to do something about illegal aliens they would arrest those who hire them. That would fix the problem in no time, but it I won't hold my breath. If you'd rather spend bigly on masked mafiosi to run around snatching them off streets like we live in some third world banana republic, then going after the employers who want the sub-legal wages will never happen.
"The most right wing Canadian is a socialist." What a ridiculously false statement, showing how little you know about Canada. Canada actually has many people who are as conservative as anyone in the USA but are held down by an urban, liberal elite who dominate our politics and media. If Canada were to be absorbed by the USA, the politics of the former provinces would undoubtedly change, so it is not at all certain that they would all vote in Democratic senators. Politics is dynamic, not static, which means that those of Canada as a part of the USA would be substantially different than those that exist today.
Any country that could elect Mark Carney to any office, even Hog Reeve, is so left wing as to be hopeless.
Yes people can change. There are very few socialists in eastern Europe anymore, and Israelis who believe in a "two state solutions" are few and far between. But that kind of change is the work of brutal and bloody conflict.
I will stick with my prediction that if we make the Canadian provinces States we will have veto proof super majorities of leftists in both houses, AOC will be President, and I will spend the rest of my life in a DEI reeducation camp.
Met 5 Quebecois last year and 4 out of the 5 (the 5th was a 22yo woman and it never came up in conversation) wanted Quebec independence. One, was a former Sgt Major in the Canadian military who went into some big corporate job after doing 25 years in the forces. His main complaint about his company was that the upper echelons of management was totally dominated by 'Anglo-Saxons', as he put it. He was retired and had seemed to have had quite a successful career, but was a little bitter about a sort of glass ceiling in his former company.
He had voted for Quebec independence in the past and still yearned for it, but said it had become an impossibility due to mass immigration into Quebec of non-French speakers who had zero affiliation to Quebec, and would never vote for separation from 'Canada'.
It was interesting as I'd never met any Quebecois before so it was eye opening to hear their perspective. I now support Quebec independence from the Canadian regime.
"Canada Delenda Est" - Donald the Elder (2026)
An excellent essay. Thanks for writing it. One small point of correction: "Americans were also deeply involved in the push by the fur traders west as far as the Great Slave Lake in what is now central Alberta." The Great Slave Lake is in what continues to be the North-West Territories. The lake in central Alberta you're referring to is the Lesser Slave Lake, which is, I think, the largest lake entirely within Alberta (Lake Athabasca being split with Saskatchewan). But it is dwarfed by the Great Slave further north.
The best solution would be to annex English Canada and let the Quebecois be masters in their own house! That said, Canadians have this air and belief of superiority of themselves that is both hilarious and concerning. They truly believe that their sick care and right to die is somewhat acceptable and superior! English Canadians look at Americans with contempt the same way they look at Quebecois! No real identity sums up Canada except for Quebec. The 51st should be Alberta and Sask, the rest no thank you! As for Quebec, they are different and no doubt they could be on their own successfully! It's a shame we the US didn't jump on Bombardier when they were in trouble instead of watching Airbus take them over!
Pretty bad take on the weaknesses within the Canadian psyche vis-a-vis the American, which can be summed up by way of this such conclusion, in this transparently American-elitist self-serving article:
"The ill-thought out multiculturalism policy has borne its bitter fruit with large anti-Semitic marches, a proliferation of ethnic self-aggrandizement, and a collapse in Canadian patriotism."
I live in Edmonton, Alberta, of British Isles heritage, ... all branches of the family coming here to Alberta in the 1910's, from Hebrides Scotland, Ireland, and Northern England, except for one branch that also came here in the 1910's, of similar root stock (Irish & Scottish Hebrides) but by way of much earlier emigrations to Massachusetts/Pennsylvania/Nova Scotia.
The nature of the Canadian body politic allows for anti-Zionist opinion, which to my mind is very much warranted, as per any level-headed analysis of current geopolitics, whereas in America, each subsequent presidential administration, along with the your legislative branch, for decades now, have become more and more beholden to Zionist interests, which are rather rotten interests, at the expense of pretty much everyone else on earth. Current day America, as such, is a twisted perverted thing. Good thing not to be that. America has a civil war in its near future, as spawned by the Zionist subversion, now coming to head, as untenable. Good luck with that, I guess. Canada should not serve as a distraction to your own huge and unexamined Zionist-perversion problems, which have become the world's problems, because of the massive American geopolitical power. Looking at America from my vantage point, I see a great tragedy unfolding upon a nation that otherwise, should hold such continued great promise, for all and all nations. It now doesn't (and that has been a slow march, gaining more and more steam for a long time now, to this, the now awful current facts). It's an awful shame. Canada can not be annexed for this central reason, alone. We cannot agree to join given this Zionist subversion, apparent everywhere in the west, but oh so much more particularly in the U.S. At some point in the mid-future American patriots will be thanking their lucky stars, having a nation such of Canada, with its particular psyche, as best ally and neighbor, to be there for you, in your time of need, as thoroughly now confused.
Thank you for your post! It is quite astonishing how little grasp our neighbours to the south have of the differences between their culture and Canadian culture, or for that matter, between their culture and the rest of human culture. The offhand statement that we have "large anti-semitic marches" was one of dozens of absurd contentions that jumped off the page for me. (We do, to our credit, hold large anti-Zionist and anti-Genocide demonstrations.) Another oddity that struck me was that the discussion of language failed to grasp/acknowledge that over 40% of Canadians speak 2 or more languages — more than twice the percentage of Americans.
From the title to the conclusion, that was much as I expected.
Apologia for imperialist fantasies, akin to Putin's flailing project.
https://peregrin11.substack.com/p/is-the-russian-federation-in-danger
You have yet to realise that people who aren't citizens of "great powers" have agency and capabilities too.
https://www.thelongmemo.com/p/invade-canada-only-if-were-looking
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-canada-officially-cuts-ties
https://plus.flux.community/p/trumps-maple-leaf-rag-sounds-increasingly
I think both countries (Canada and the US) are in a state that is beyond political fixes by the usual suspects. It's indeed laughable that the Canadian electorate are now considering re-electing the same mob of traitors and criminals who put the country in the current mess that it's in, and now headed by a career bureau(c)rat and globalist stooge.
Despite all the Trumpian bluster and hype about MAGA, the corruption and criminality is so firmly entrenched in the deep state, that the odds of him clearing it out are remote. It should be obvious to all by now, that the Ziocons have him firmly in hand, and they are the ones firmly entrenched and controlling of the deep state.
In addition, it seems to me that both nations are in the incipient stages of financial collapse, which I suspect will be quite severe. Any talk of the futility, or undesirability, of Canadian annexation is understandable. I have an inkling that Canada won't survive the collapse, as the predicament will soon turn to every many for himself, and the pieces will re-form (or not) according to their own best interests (and which won't include a federation from coast to coast, republican or otherwise).
Well written. I would note that during the War of 1812, in Michigan when Detroit was captured, a major component of their force were not Canadian nor British, they were allied with the forces of Tecumseh's confederacy who provided a larger share of the force than Canadians did
It was up to Tecumseh and his forces to determine which side was their side. and much of this essay in bunk, strained through a USian filter.
An example? We don't have "large anti semitic marches" — or even small ones — but we do have large, anti-genocide, pro-Palestinian marches.
Yeah, that statement was particularly jarring. Anti-Semitism in Canada has never been inspired by the demos, much less publicly demonstrated for (the exception being perhaps elements of the Klan, which mostly had other priorities) so much as exercised by the oligarchic elements so skilfully referenced in this essay — exclusion from clubs being typical, and perhaps most notoriously evident in the “none is too many” attitude towards accepting refugees from the Nazis in the 1930s.
Glossing demonstrations against mistreatment of Palestinians (in some cases including participation of a considerable number of Jews themselves) as axiomatically “anti-Semitic” requires acceptance of a peculiarly American (embraced also by elements of the Israeli political spectrum) definition, one that bizarrely fails to grasp what “Semitic” means in the first place.
I agree with the second part but the first part is off from what I know of them, Tecumseh's confederacy had a singular purpose and it was based around 1) preventing further territorial loss from American expansion and 2) the regaining, if possible, of any territories they could that had already been lost (Michigan was a territory that a hefty portion of their constituent tribes had been forced from), so they by definition could not have sided with America
I’ve liked this because I learnt some stuff, but how do you explain the apparently overwhelming opposition to annexation in Canada today and the fact that anti-annexationist sentiment appears to have brought the Liberal party back from the brink of death? Is this compatible with the idea that Canada doesn’t have a national identity?
(Also: “The taxation of those resources beginning in 1974 ... The people of the prairie provinces correctly saw the programs initiated in Ontario with support of the eastern provinces as redistributing their fairly earned wealth”. Fairly earned wealth? Did they put the oil in the ground?)
It's ideological opposition to Trump & the Republicans, as well as sectional hatred for America. It has little to do with Canadian nationalism, a dead force since the 1960s. Support for the British Empire was replaced by support for the "international community" as a result of the breaking of the old British ties in the 1960s.
Don’t underestimate also simple revulsion for the death cult that is neoliberalism, a system which has gripped the US perhaps more desperately than any other western country (the UK being a close second) though most Canadians likely wouldn’t be able to identify the source of their discomfort, the propaganda on behalf of that hegemonic sociopolitical enterprise having been so overwhelmingly successful. A non-trivial number of Canadians cling to what scraps of our welfare state (most notably our system of socialized medicine as its totem) remain as evidence of some sort of signal, however attenuated, that we can choose a different path than our southern neighbours.
Please bomb canada into the fucking ground, starting with Toronto and Ottawa.
"The consequences of state multiculturalism and bilingualismwere difficult for the people in the 1960s and 1970s to imagine. Rhetoric leads to commitment, and commitment in time means the enactment of policies. Policies require bureaucracies, and those bureaucracies, in time, find reasons to expand their reach far beyond the initial intentions of activists and politicians."
- As so few English speakers bother learning a 2nd language, whilst English fluency is mandatory for any international commerce, does this mean in practice that the Canadian bureaucracy is relatively dominated by traitorous native Quebecois and African Francophone immigrants?
yes - the political class is far more closed than it is in the United States, where even ordinary people can enter politics quite late in life without much preparation
Less than 1/5 Canadians are fluent in both.
Alberta and Saskatchewan are the only provinces as conservative as the US, but the territories of Canada can't hurt much because their populations are less than 50k https://redstatesecession.org/where-north-america-would-split-in-a-peaceful-national-divorce
https://redstatesecession.org/eastern-canada-is-leftist-we-shouldnt-annex-it/
You may be interested in my recent piece on this topic: https://surak.substack.com/p/should-canada-join-america
Alberta and Saskatchewan (to a lesser degree Manitoba) most resemble America, and could be admitted upon application. The other provinces should be kept out.
Surprised that Pierre Trudeau highlighted more? And the 60's cultural revolution.