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Alberta invokes Sovereignty Act
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Canada: Use of Emergency Powers was Unconstitutional
« Reply #153 on: January 23, 2024, 02:33:50 PM »
Canada’s Use of Emergency Powers to End Trucker Protests Was Unconstitutional, Judge Rules
Liberal government plans appeal of ruling on use of extraordinary powers to halt demonstrations over Covid-19 vaccine mandates
By Paul Vieira
Jan. 23, 2024 3:33 pm ET

OTTAWA—A Canadian judge ruled Tuesday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau violated the country’s constitution when he invoked extraordinary powers in 2022 to end a weekslong protest in the capital against Covid-19 vaccine mandates.

The Federal Court of Canada ruling marks the latest setback for Trudeau’s Liberal government, which is struggling in public-opinion polls with an election over a year away. The protests in Ottawa were led by the so-called Freedom Convoy, a group of truck drivers and tens of thousands of other individuals who said they were fed up with the social restrictions and vaccine mandates meant to contain the spread of Covid-19. The protest in the capital spawned copycat demonstrations at certain U.S.-Canada border crossings in the provinces of Alberta and Ontario, and abroad, like in New Zealand.

Canadian officials said Tuesday they would appeal the ruling from Justice Richard Mosley. Legal watchers say the case likely ends up with the Supreme Court of Canada, which may have to decide that either the Trudeau government’s use of the Emergencies Act was justified, or if not what limits future governments face in trying to invoke such powers.

Justice Mosley said the Trudeau’s government use of the federal Emergencies Act “does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness—justification, transparency and intelligibility—and was not justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints that were required to be taken into consideration.” He said the use of emergency powers “infringed” on provisions in the constitution. 

The judge said the Trudeau government argued emergency powers were required because of a national-security threat prevalent across Canada. Protesters sympathetic to the Freedom Convoy cause popped up in Coutts, Alberta, and Windsor, Ontario, to temporarily thwart commercial and passenger transit between Canada and the U.S. Police in those jurisdictions eventually removed the protesters.

Judge Mosley said the government’s characterization of the security threat “was, in my view, an overstatement of the situation known.” While the Trudeau administration was worried about the threat of other protests at border crossings, the judge said “the evidence available to cabinet was that these were being dealt with by local and provincial authorities, through arrests and superior court injunctions, aside from the impasse which remained in Ottawa.”

At the time, critics of the use of emergency powers said the government unnecessarily usurped people’s rights for what was essentially a policing issue contained to one city, Ottawa. Among the measures temporarily invoked was the freezing of bank accounts and other assets belonging to convoy protesters.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association, one of the plaintiffs challenging the use of emergency powers, said the federal court decision “sets a clear and critical precedent for every future government” seeking to use the Emergencies Act.

Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters in Montreal that, at the time the emergency powers were invoked, “our national security, which includes our national economic security, was under threat. We were convinced at the time, and I was convinced at the time, it was the right thing to do.” She said an appeal was forthcoming.

Last year, a judicial inquiry said that the Freedom Convoy protest was the result of simmering social, economic and political grievances exacerbated by the pandemic. In the end, the inquiry concluded, Trudeau was justified in invoking emergency powers because senior officials had information about threats “of serious violence,” adding a series of local policing mistakes “contributed to a situation that spun out of control.”

Write to Paul Vieira at paul.vieira@wsj.com

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Because Eventually a Competent Despot Will Come Along
« Reply #154 on: January 24, 2024, 09:21:31 PM »
Hmm, not sure if this is the best place for this, but a Canadian court finds Trudeau’s handling of the truck strike was illegal.

https://www.cato.org/blog/canadian-court-trudeaus-use-emergency-powers-crush-protests-was-illegal

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #155 on: January 25, 2024, 04:54:20 AM »
Yes, this is a good place for that-- witness my post prior to yours  :-D

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #156 on: January 25, 2024, 05:11:34 AM »
Yes, this is a good place for that-- witness my post prior to yours  :-D

Yeah, but I didn’t see much in the way of “US” in these pieces (besides mirrored authoritarian predilections in some political circles) and hence hesitated.

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #157 on: January 25, 2024, 05:17:37 AM »
Ah.

I realize that we have quite a few threads here and so I look for opportunities to minimize that.

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #159 on: January 28, 2024, 04:54:02 AM »
And one of the ways the truckers were cut down was by shutting down their bank accounts.

Let us beware of banking laws and regs that under the name of preventing laundering, enable such totalitarian power.

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Jew Hatred in Canada
« Reply #160 on: March 24, 2024, 07:52:24 AM »

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Canada: I've been muzzled
« Reply #161 on: September 19, 2024, 04:03:00 PM »

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GPF: Serious Canada-India accusations
« Reply #162 on: October 15, 2024, 08:30:50 AM »


Ottawa made serious accusations against the Indian government.
By: Geopolitical Futures

Widening rift. Canada expelled six Indian diplomats, including India’s high commissioner to Ottawa, after identifying them as persons of interest in the murder in Canada of a Sikh activist last year. The Canadian government also alleged that Indian officials were passing on information about other Canadian citizens to organized crime groups to target them for attacks. Canada’s foreign minister said New Delhi refused a request to cooperate in the investigation. The Indian government denied the allegations and expelled six Canadian diplomats in response.

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Castro’s Comeback Kid?
« Reply #163 on: October 22, 2024, 09:54:20 PM »
Sounds like they are growing as tired of “Progressive” politics north of the border as many are in the US:

Gloves Off: Justin Trudeau’s Fight to Stay in Power

The Beacon / by Francis Crescia / Oct 22, 2024 at 3:17 PM

In every politician’s career, there comes a time when one must decide how ambitious one wants to be and if one is ready to go after more power and greater glory—for Justin Trudeau, that moment occurred in 2012 with the “Thrilla on the Hilla” boxing charity event.

The evening’s boxing match featured a muscular Patrick “Brass Knuckles” Brazeau, a black belt in karate and a veteran of the Canadian navy, four years younger and the heavy favorite versus a tall, lean, pampered young man accused of riding his father’s coattails to win a seat in the House of Commons. Brazeau came out with a ton of aggression, looking for a quick knockout. Trudeau absorbed several shots and demonstrated he could take a hit. After the first round, Brazeau was breathing hard. For the rest of the three-round fight, Trudeau utilized his jab, and when Brazeau was stuck against the ropes, he pounced and finished him off with a flurry of effective blows. Brazeau’s career in the Conservative party ended shortly thereafter and Trudeau would use the victory to define himself as a fighter. “Never underestimate the power of symbols in today’s world,” Trudeau said.

After nine years of the Trudeau Liberals in power, the country will take years to regain economic stability and international credibility. With scandals too numerous to list, a stagnant economy with little growth, a declining standard of living, increasing crime, and sky-high debt Trudeau has doubled from $600,000 billion to $1.24 trillion. As a result, most Canadians want him to step down and 47 percent are demanding an election now, but he remains defiant, refusing to give up power.

With his combative spirit in high gear, Trudeau declares: “I am not going to lose to Poilievre.” Insiders say that Trudeau sees himself as the comeback kid, a fighter who can beat the odds, and that he refuses to accept that there is widespread dissatisfaction with his government.

With his administration on the ropes and mayhem all around him, as his advisors and MPs resigned and two Liberal strongholds were lost in by-elections, he has turned to Marc Carney as his new economic czar. He has brought Carney on board not only to provide ideas about how to kick-start a moribund economy over-reliant on government spending, but likely to enhance his image and give his base a reason to vote for him.

The former Bank of England governor presents many conflicts of interest as he continues to advise the British government, sits on a plethora of corporate boards, and is Chairman at Brookfield Asset Management. He is also the U.N.’s Envoy on Climate and a World Economic Forum board member. “Mark’s unique ideas and perspective will play a vital role in shaping the next steps in our plan to continue to grow our economy and strengthen the middle class,” Trudeau stated. According to pollster Nik Nanos, “There is no one on the bench for him that he has confidence in, and Trudeau believes he can turn this around by himself.”

Carney is already fast at work, as Brookfield Asset Management, which he chairs, has pitched the Canadian government a proposal to create a $50 billion investment fund seeded with $10 billion in taxpayer money. The question of whose interests Carney serves is practically transparent; it certainly is not the interests of the Canadian people.

The last time the Trudeau government appointed an advisory council to promote economic growth, it brought in global consulting firm McKinsey & Co. McKinsey, which controversially recommended open-door immigration and the removal of restrictions on temporary foreign workers, was awarded $200 million in new contracts by the Liberal government.

During the question period in the House of Commons, Trudeau no longer looks like an energetic fighter but appears tired and worn like a veteran boxer on his last legs. He and his fellow liberals often repeat the same old lines, accusing the Conservatives of wanting to cut social programs and claiming that if elected they will destroy democracy. This is the quality of allegation from a government whose immigration vetting process is so incompetent that in July the R.C.M.P. arrested a father and son for allegedly being “in the advanced stages of planning a serious violent attack in Toronto.” The father received his Canadian citizenship right before his arrest and may have appeared in a 2015 ISIS propaganda video.

Like other parts of the government, the House of Commons has become dysfunctional. Trudeau resorted to profanity to describe his opponents, and NDP leader Singh crossed the aisle challenging Pierre Poilievre to a fight. The Bloc, whose interest is to separate from Canada, is exploiting its dysfunction to demand more money from the Liberals in exchange for its support.

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is pushing hard for an election, stood up in the House and nailed it:

He can try to call himself Rocky Balboa and play fight songs to aggrandize himself as the Star, but the people lined up at food banks, 2 million of them every month, know better. The people who are living in the 1800 Ontario tent encampments know better. The 35 homeless encampments and Halifax, the people there know better. They know that we need to fire this costly carbon tax coalition so we can elect a commonsense government that will bring it home for them.

An election can clear the air and restack the deck with new leadership. But the opposition Conservative party faces an uphill battle as the NDP and Bloc Quebecois continue to prop up the Liberal government. The question remains whether the opposition parties will take the necessary steps to initiate an election. Time will tell.

The post Gloves Off: Justin Trudeau’s Fight to Stay in Power appeared first on The Beacon.

https://blog.independent.org/2024/10/22/gloves-off-justin-trudeaus-fight-to-stay-in-power/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gloves-off-justin-trudeaus-fight-to-stay-in-power

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Trudeau reminds me of this guy
« Reply #164 on: November 24, 2024, 08:39:04 AM »

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NO term limits for Canadian politicians
« Reply #165 on: December 05, 2024, 06:23:20 AM »
how cozy

I was wondering how long we have to suffer with Trudeau there.
If they keep voting him in it could be for life:

https://www.newsweek.com/canada-prime-minister-maximum-term-1631062


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Trudeau in trouble ?
« Reply #167 on: December 17, 2024, 06:51:43 AM »
No sooner did I post that Trudeau could be there for life then headlines he is in real trouble.

Like buying a stock and holding then selling the day before it skyrockets.

Some conflict over how to handle Trump tarrifs.

Could this be another win for Trump even before he starts?


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Oh Canada, Pierre Poilievre
« Reply #168 on: December 18, 2024, 06:41:52 AM »
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/canada-conservative-likely-to-unseat-trudeau-has-trump-like-tendencies/ar-AA1w3qy7?ocid=BingNewsVerp
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https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/12/oh-canada-2.php
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Trump has been calling it the "state" of Canada and calling him "Governor" Trudeau. I guess the talks didn't go that well...
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Oh Canada continued, Justin Trudeau - has got to go
« Reply #169 on: December 19, 2024, 08:39:09 AM »
Beautiful song.
"Justin Trudeau has got to go,
He never played hockey.
Justin Trudeau has got to go,
Get someone who played hockey."

https://youtu.be/XwiAT96iO6Y?si=DUl2I07ARhF_fLNW

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Michael Yon: Kanada
« Reply #170 on: December 19, 2024, 09:25:28 AM »

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #173 on: January 07, 2025, 07:13:01 AM »
"The problem with Trudeau’s government is not the name at the top of the ticket. The problem is bad ideas, strongly held."

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GPF: Canada's unusually bad situation
« Reply #174 on: January 14, 2025, 04:59:44 AM »
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Canada’s Unusually Bad Situation
The country is much less stable now than it was during Trump’s first term.
By: Allison Fedirka

From a geopolitical perspective, the U.S.-Canadian relationship is enviable. The two countries lack the dramatic historical, cultural and religious differences that often lead to conflict between neighbors – especially prosperous ones. Relative to most other countries, they both enjoy a high degree of physical protection from potential enemies, thanks to the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and have managed to maintain, by global standards, a peaceful, secure border.

Through treaties and trade agreements, they have avoided conflict and have integrated their economies such that stability for one is stability for both. For example, Canada provides just over half of petroleum imports to the U.S., and since imports account for 37 percent of total U.S. petroleum consumption (as of 2023), Canada is responsible for nearly 20 percent of total U.S. consumption. The U.S. also relies on Canada to supply critical materials such as potash, uranium and lumber, and the two share highly integrated production chains in major economic sectors such as the automotive industry – all of which reduces vulnerabilities within the U.S. economy.

Put simply, Canada is crucial to the United States’ ability to project power, because when Washington doesn’t have to attend to its own backyard, it has more time and resources to spend elsewhere.

But even under ideal circumstances, stability is never guaranteed. The government in Ottawa is in the throes of a political crisis brought on by economic and social pressure. Early last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation from an office he held for nearly a decade. His departure comes alongside a dramatic rise in the Conservative Party’s popularity. By all accounts, the ruling Liberal Party is poised to lose power in the upcoming federal election, with polls showing the Conservatives with a strong lead. Elections were initially slated for Oct. 20, but Trudeau’s resignation will likely result in an earlier date as the opposition is expected to call for a confidence vote shortly after the resumption of Parliament on March 24.

The crisis was long in the making. The rising cost of living, labor shortages, immigration tensions and an affordable housing crisis have compelled the government to engage in major policy overhauls. Many of these changes have yet to yield the desired results. Canada’s inflation peaked at 8.1 percent in June 2022 and trended downward to 1.9 percent in November 2024. Though inflation has slowed, the price of essential goods remains high for consumers. Community Food Centers Canada estimates one in four Canadians face some level of food insecurity. These numbers started to climb in 2019, impacting not only those living in poverty but also some 15 percent of people not living in poverty. Wages initially lagged behind inflation after the pandemic but have since recovered. But higher wages drive up the cost of services and labor at a time when economic growth lags slightly behind inflation.

The government has struggled to design a policy that allows it to successfully address labor shortages in critical areas without relying too much on immigration. Since the pandemic, Canada has experienced major demographic shifts. Fertility rates are at record lows (1.33 births per woman in 2022), and millennials now outnumber baby boomers. Population movement between provinces has increased to its highest levels since the 1990s, resulting, broadly speaking, in people leaving urban areas for more rural settings. In recent years, the government has relied on immigration to compensate for Canada’s population problems. Last year, the country’s total population stood at 40 million, and population growth was the highest it had been in almost 70 years (3.2 percent). Immigration now accounts for nearly all (97.6 percent) population growth in the country, with temporary residents accounting for 6.2 percent of the total population.

Canada uses a points system to award immigration status that, in the past, rewarded white-collar, highly educated individuals. However, many of those who gained entrance to Canada could not find jobs consistent with their skill sets. This was due to a mismatch of skills in the labor force and jobs and the economy failing to create jobs at pace with population growth. In 2021, the government loosened immigration measures to make working-class jobs more attractive. Two years later, the government loosened regulations to allow more immigrants to work in the country. This included increased immigrant quotas, requirements to apply for work permits once already in the country and allowing international students to work up to 20 hours a week.

These measures failed to offset the labor shortages. Demand for skilled work still outpaces the available supply of tradespeople and blue-collar workers, especially in construction, trades, agriculture, transportation and health care. In turn, this has increased the cost of labor, created delays in services and strained quality control standards. There are concerns that the shortages will persist: Some 700,000 of Canada’s 4 million trade workers are set to retire by 2030, putting even more pressure on labor scarcity.

Socio-economic pressures have forced the government to change course on how it plans to deal with immigration. Unemployment slowly began to rise in 2024. Immigrants living in Canada for less than five years had nearly double the unemployment rate (12.6 percent) in July as the national average (6.4 percent). The uptick in joblessness has made social welfare services both more expensive and less able to meet the population’s growing needs. In late 2024, the government announced it would reduce the annual allotment of permanent residents, which came to 500,000 in 2024, to 365,000 by 2027. It also removed some of the looser regulations introduced in 2023. The moves aim to reduce the share of temporary residents to 5 percent of Canada’s population by the end of 2026. (In theory, the measures will still allow for workers to participate in key labor markets such as health care and trades.)

Labor shortages, slow economic recovery and the government’s immigration policy are seen as major contributors to Canada’s housing crisis. From 2000 to 2021, housing prices in Canada rose by 355 percent while median nominal income rose by only 113 percent. Lower inflation and lower interest rates have failed to reverse the trend. Increased immigration and labor shortages in construction and trades have put upward pressure on prices and slowed growth in supply of available homes. Market indicators such as pre-construction sales and new condo sales continued to fall in 2024, suggesting the problem will persist in the near term. Market analysts estimate that, in the best-case scenario, it will take at least five or six years for supply to catch up with demand.

Academics and some market analysts have also noted structural shifts in homeownership as part of the problem. Fifty or so years ago, Canada had more government programs in place to fund social housing programs. These programs were reduced or eliminated in the 1990s. Experts also point out that housing financialization intensified after the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation shifted from building homes to insuring mortgages. As a consequence, they argue, housing came to be seen more as a wealth-building tool rather than a basic social need. The rise in prominence of short-term rentals, like Airbnbs, has also contributed to the problem. Approximately 20 percent of residential properties in British Columbia and Ontario (two provinces with some of the most severe affordability problems) are owned by investors.

Government efforts to ease pressure on housing prices seem to have failed. More than 50 percent of Canadians worry about their ability to pay their mortgage or rent, and a similar number say they could lose their homes if their financial situation were to worsen. Two-thirds of Canadians with mortgages reportedly already have trouble meeting their financial commitments. In the spring of 2024, a new housing plan was launched to “unlock” 3.87 million new homes by 2031. The challenge here will once again be the strain of having to fund such extensive federal programs to meet the population’s socio-economic needs.

Unsurprisingly these economic problems have created social unrest. Citizens and longer-term permanent residents find themselves competing with new immigrants and temporary residents for government funds. The influx of immigrants has also been difficult for Canadian society to absorb, resulting in a lack of assimilation among the different immigrant groups that often remain concentrated in semi-isolated communities and more marginal positions, similar to what we see in many European countries.

All this is to say that Canada is not as socially or economically stable as it was during President-elect Donald Trump’s first presidency. Some warn that Canada's slow economic growth and structural issues leave it ill-suited to absorb shocks such as new tariffs from the United States. Economists estimate that, if Trump were to follow through with his blanket 25 percent tariffs, it would reduce the size of the Canadian economy by 2.6-3.8 percent. Retaliatory measures from Canada could push that figure as high as 5.6 percent, according to economists from Scotiabank. That kind of decline would trigger greater instability in Canada and could have knock-on effects for the U.S. This could easily result in greater undocumented migration, more cross-border smuggling of goods and other security concerns. In this sense, when the U.S. designs trade policy for Canada, it must consider how it would affect U.S. consumers.

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Our Northern Neighbor: A Democratic Party Blueprint?
« Reply #175 on: February 01, 2025, 11:27:21 AM »
I can’t help but suspect there is some hyperbole incorporated into this piece—“60” shows up as a percentage in many of the wretched circumstances cited too often—but even if some of the stats are too round and convenient this piece is a damning indictment of Canada under the current regime, serves as a warning where globalists, environmentalists, immigrants, special interests, & investment bankers are concerned, and indeed demonstrates the bullet Trump is helping the US dodge or presages where a Harris win would have taken us: 

https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/canada-is-a-failed-state-and-mark?r=2k0c5&triedRedirect=true

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This too is Canada
« Reply #177 on: February 01, 2025, 04:57:04 PM »

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Canada-US, Trudeau should have averted trade War
« Reply #178 on: February 02, 2025, 10:53:38 AM »
https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/us-news/shopify-ceo-defends-trump-tariff-demands-slams-trudeau/

These are not crazy demands Trump is making.

CEO of Canada's Shopify speaks out.

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when are we going to be rid of Justine
« Reply #179 on: February 02, 2025, 01:18:34 PM »
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-resigns-trump-tariffs-what-happens-now-1.7424288

But alas looks like all the replacements are libs

indeed libs dominate the parties except for one right of center to right one the Conservatives:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_parties_in_Canada

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #180 on: February 03, 2025, 01:52:13 PM »
Justin Trudeau, x.com
( I'll wait for verification, Babylon Bee couldn't have said it better)

"I just had a good call with President Trump. Canada is implementing our $1.3 billion border plan — reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl. Nearly 10,000 frontline personnel are and will be working on protecting the border.

In addition, Canada is making new commitments to appoint a Fentanyl Czar, we will list cartels as terrorists, ensure 24/7 eyes on the border, launch a Canada- U.S. Joint Strike Force to combat organized crime, fentanyl and money laundering. I have also signed a new intelligence directive on organized crime and fentanyl and we will be backing it with $200 million.

Proposed tariffs will be paused for at least 30 days while we work together."
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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #182 on: February 04, 2025, 12:21:53 PM »
Agreed that the article engages with one of the ways that Trump frames this, one which in economic terms can resonably be argued to be unsound.

The other way Trump frames this is a matter of national security.   In addition to the fenanyl, there is also the matter (I think I have this right) that more people on the terror watch list and their ilk come in through Canada than Mexico.

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #183 on: February 04, 2025, 12:29:03 PM »
Right. I approve of his use of tariffs as a lever to change behavior, gain cooperation and tear down their barriers.  I disapprove of them as a long term economic policy.

His rhetoric of loving tariffs could very well be part of his negotiating strategy.

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Re: Canada-US
« Reply #184 on: February 04, 2025, 01:41:45 PM »
He prepares for Xi.

Remember how he bombed Russia in Syria between the main course and desert while hosting Xi at Mar al Lago?


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Consolidation of the New Colossus by Canadian Colour Revolution
« Reply #188 on: February 16, 2025, 05:02:20 AM »
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/maple-maidan


Maple Maidan
Consolidation of the New Colossus by Canadian colour revolution
John Carter
Feb 15, 2025

This one is a bit long (okay, they’re all a bit long). I’ve divided it into three main parts. The first describes the problem Canada has turned into, both for its own people, and for its Southern neighbour. The second explains the motivation behind what is apparently the new president’s favoured solution: annexation. The third part lays out how this might be accomplished relatively bloodlessly by precipitating a colour revolution.

I. A nasty problem on America’s northern frontier
Canada and the US have been frenemies for most of the last two hundred years. With the exception of some spats in the 19th century, they’ve fought on the same side in all major wars, and haven’t taken up arms against one another. At the same time, Canada has from the very beginning fiercely guarded its independence. Through the 1950s, this came from Canada’s self-conception as an outpost of sober, orderly British traditionalism, in stark contrast to the chaotic liberal revolutionaries across the border. Following the Liberal Party’s cultural revolution in the 1960s, Canada increasingly came to see itself as different from the US primarily in that it was more liberal, in the modern sense, than it’s Bible-thumping, gun-toting redneck cousins – which is to say more socialist, leftist, multicultural, gay-friendly, internationalist, feminist, and so forth. In fairness to Canada, the British government, having long-since fallen under the sway of the Labour party, had followed the same ideological trajectory, so Canada was really just taking its cue from Mother England as it always had. In further fairness to Canada, all of this has been aggressively pushed by Blue America, which has been running American culture (and therefore everyone else’s) until about five minutes ago.

Despite these differences, the US could always rely on Canada being a stable, competently run, prosperous, and happy neighbour – perhaps a bit on the prickly side, given the inferiority complex, but much less of a headache than the entropic narcostate to the south that keeps sending its masses of illiterate campesinos flooding over the banks of the Rio Grande. Canada might be annoying sometimes, but it didn’t cause problems. To the contrary, Canada and the US have maintained one the world’s most productive trading relationships for years: America gets Canadian oil, minerals, lumber, and Canada gets US dollars, technology, and culture.

Now, however, Canada has become a problem for America. Not yet, perhaps, the biggest problem – America has a very large number of extremely pressing problems – but a significant one nonetheless, with the potential to become quite acute in the near future.

The problem is that Canada has become a security threat.

Canada is not a security threat in the military sense. Indeed, that’s part of the problem. The Canadian Armed Forces has become so demoralized, weak, and enfaggoted by decades of systematic underfunding and leftist social engineering that what was once, man for man, one of the toughest armed forces on the planet is now a shambolic collection of obese CAFamites under the command of schoolmarms with pronoun hair. If the US wanted to conquer Canada by armed force, it could do so in a day – send a tank battalion to cut off the highway connections between Toronto and Montreal, drop some Green Berets into Ottawa to take parliament into custody, and that would be that. The problem is that Canada’s weak military also means that it cannot defend the arctic against Russian or Chinese incursions, thereby dropping the defence of North America’s northern frontier into the overstretched arms of the US military.

It does not stop at a weak military. Canada’s government has also been deeply penetrated by foreign adversaries, China and India in particular. An intelligence report found that numerous Canadian members of parliament are acting as de facto agents of foreign influence, both in terms of participation in election meddling by foreign powers, and in terms of feeding those powers intelligence. The names of these traitors have not been released, probably because none of them are actually Canadians. Naturally, the Canadian government investigated itself, and as it invariably does, found itself to be quite spotlessly clean, which is quite reassuring. It just isn’t reassuring to Canada’s nominal allies, who have become leery of intelligence sharing with Canada.

The next security problem is the border, an issue which Trump has repeatedly stressed as a justification for tariffs. The 49th Parallel is famously the longest undefended border on the planet. It is much longer than the Southern border; there are no barbed wire border fences; most of the terrain is easily traversed – forest, lake, or prairie – in contrast to the punishing desert running across the US-Mexico border. Militarizing the US-Mexico border is already a huge, costly undertaking. Doing the same on the Canadian border would be vastly more challenging.

Canada’s extraordinarily lax immigration policy has, in recent years, led to a much higher encounter rate at border crossings with suspects on the terrorism watch list. These people come into Canada legally, part of the millions of immigrants Ottawa has been importing, every year, for the last few years. When you’re bringing in over one percent of your country’s population every single year, it is simply not possible to properly vet them, and it seems that Ottawa barely even bothers to try. Given that not every such person of interest will get stopped at the border, and that not every terrorist is on a watch list, one wonders how many enemies have already slipped across into the US by way of Canadian airports.


RCMP officers with their haul from a fentanyl superlab. Only one person was arrested.
The second border problem is fentanyl. Like the US, Canada has a raging opiod epidemic. We’ve got tent cities, zombies in the streets, needles in the parks, and this is not limited to the big cities – it spills out into the small towns, as well. Like Mexico, Canada has fentanyl laboratories. Precursor chemicals are imported from China by triads, turned into chemical weapons in Canadian labs, and then distributed within Canadian and American markets by predominantly Indian truckers. The occasional busts have turned up vast quantities of the stuff, but have resulted in very few arrests. The proceeds are then laundered through casinos or fake colleges, with the laundered cash then parked in Canadian real estate. There are estimates that the volume of fentanyl money flowing through Canada’s housing markets is significant enough to be a major factor (immigration is certainly the main factor) distorting real estate prices – keeping the housing bubble inflated, propping up Canada’s sagging economy, and pricing young Canadians out of any hope of owning a home or, for that matter, even renting an apartment without a roommate or three.

It’s generally understood, though essentially never acknowledged at official levels, that poisoning North America with opiods is deliberate Chinese policy, both as revenge for the Opium Wars of the 19th century, and as one element in their strategy of unrestricted warfare i.e. the covert but systematic weaponization of every point of contact – economic, industrial, cultural, etc. – between Chinese and Western societies. By allowing the fentanyl trade to continue, the Canadian government is complicit in an act of covert war being waged by a foreign power, one whose casualties include the Canadian government’s own population.


This brings us to the penultimate, and really the crucial, problem, which is that the Canadian political system is in the hands of America’s enemies. This characterization is not confined to Justin Trudeau, or even to the Liberal Party of which he is no longer leader (though for now he remains prime minister). It is a universal across Canada’s political class. The leader of the New Democratic Party, Canada’s socialists, is a Sikh, and a Khalistani nationalist. The Greens are, as Greens everywhere, watermelons – environmental conservationists on the outside, communists on the inside. Even the Conservative Party are committed neoliberal globalists with a deep and abiding affection for mass third world immigration.

Canada’s political class share all of the enthusiasms of Blue America, as do the ‘presidents’ and ‘prime ministers’ of the various European satrapies. They are all are essentially the branch managers for the local franchises of the worldwide socioeconomic engineering project generally understood by its detractors as ‘globalism’. Globalism is the enemy of America specifically, and the West more broadly. MAGA – which is essentially the loose coalition of Americans who for various reasons prefer not to destroy the West more broadly, and America specifically – has recently staged a hostile takeover of the political nerve centre of globalism within the USA, but the globalists remain entrenched throughout the imperial provinces. Very much including Canada.

It should be stressed that none of this is working out at all well for Canadian citizens. They’ve endured a lost decade of wage growth under the Trudeau regime, which has occurred at the same time that housing prices have skyrocketed due to the aforementioned money laundering as well as what may be the world’s highest rate of immigration (recently reaching a few percent of the population, annually), leaving Canadians one of the most indebted population’s on the planet.


The birth rate has cratered, reaching a total fertility rate of 1.2 live births per woman, even lower than Europe; the number is almost certainly even worse if only native births are considered, as immigrants tend to have larger families. This fertility collapse is due to wages flattened by immigrant labour, unaffordable housing, and also a sex ratio which is suddenly one of the most skewed in the world, with an excess male population of about 10% (that excess being entirely composed of imports). This excellent essay at Aporia presents these problems in more detail:


Aporia
The Canadian Question
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As a result of these multitudinous troubles, Canada’s governing class is not popular. For years now, all across the country Canadians have defiantly hoisted the black flag of Fuck Trudeau as precursor to their intent to start slitting political throats the next time they’re allowed to vote. Such vulgarity is unheard of in Canadian politics. It takes a great deal for Canadians to be impolite.


However, this widespread dissatisfaction has so far failed to coalesce into any meaningful populist insurgency opposing the Laurentian elite. Until recently, the leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre, was coasting towards an easy electoral landslide on the back of this simmering popular anger, with his primary and indeed only selling point being that he is not Justin Trudeau. That is not to say that he is terribly different from Justin Trudeau. For American readers, Poilievre can be best described as vaguely reminiscent of Pete Buttigieg, with politics a hair to the right of the left of the right of Buttigieg’s left.


Pierre Poilievre, who’s selling point is that he isn’t Justin Trudeau
On a policy level the Conservatives are practically identical to the liberals; indeed, on immigration, after the LPC was forced by overwhelming weight of public opinion to slightly reduce the rate at which they lavished student visas and temporary foreign worker visas on their clients, Poilievre’s Conservatives essentially allowed the Liberals to outflank them to the right on the immigration issue, despite mass deportations being a very clear electoral winner.


Only very recently did Poilievre finally pledge to reduce immigration to ‘only’ a quarter of a million a year ... still a far cry from the clear necessity to reverse the flood that Trudeau and the rest of his World Economic Forum Young Global Leader alumni unleashed on the country.

It now appears likely that Trudeau will be replaced as head of the Liberal Party by Mark Carney, a central banker and committed globalist. It also appears quite plausible that the Conservatives will squander their electoral lead, possibly resulting in Carney winning the next election1.


Compilation of various polling results. Note the abrupt spike in Liberal numbers in the last month, and the matching drop in Conservative popularity.
The closest Canada has to a populist anti-immigration movement is Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party of Canada. Bernier was a close favourite to win the Conservative leadership contest about a decade ago, but was sidelined by shady party shenanigans in favour of some ineffectual nonentity no one remembers now. Rather than accept the humiliation, he left the party and started his own, with blackjack and hookers.


People’s Party of Canada Leader “Mad” Max Bernier (2017, colourized)
Okay I’m joking about the hookers (although Mad Max’s ex-girlfriend was apparently connected to the Hell’s Angels). In any case, the People’s Party’s strongly libertarian leanings have completely failed to connect with voters. To date, the PPC has not taken a single seat in parliament, and have not cracked low single digits in polling, as can be seen in the graph above. This despite the PPC being the only party to take a firm – and extremely popular – anti-immigration stance. The party’s novelty doesn’t fully explain this. It’s been around longer than Britain’s Reform Party, for example, which snapped up several seats in the last UK general. I suspect the PPC languishes because most conservative voters assume – very incorrectly – that the CPC will solve the immigration problem. Indeed I’ve had several conversations in which my interlocutor hallucinated that the CPC had taken a strong stance against immigration.

The PPC is of course also subjected to the same relentless demonization – racist, xenophobic, far-right, Nazi, you all know the litany – that every populist party faces. In Canada this bites deeper than it does in other countries, because the Canadian media is probably one of the most controlled in the formerly free world, and the Canadian people deeply brainwashed. The legacy media is directly subsidized by the federal government, meaning that even the so-called ‘free’ press is essentially state-controlled media. This gives the Canadian establishment a considerable edge in sidelining opposition. Personally, I suspect the main reason that the PPC has so far failed to make a dent in the Canadian political landscape is that libertarianism simply doesn’t connect with Canadian voters. Canadians are not libertarians; they are instinctively authoritarian, and always have been.

Regardless of the reason, as it stands there’s no realistic possibility of a populist insurgency forming a majority – or even a minority – government in a reasonable time-frame. It is all but assured that control of the Canadian government will pass from the grubby hands of one group of tawdry little globalists to the clutching paws of another, which will happen whether the Liberals or the Conservatives win the next election.

For America, for MAGA, for Trump, this is a pressing strategic concern. They are engaged in nothing short of a revolutionary overthrow of the managerial regime that has subverted, gaslit, and plundered the United States since FDR, and for their project to succeed it is utterly crucial that the enemy’s power centres, both internal and external, be neutralized. Canada is a particularly high priority due to the expansive undefended border, and the vast volume of trade that crosses it. While America could probably weather interruption of the flow of natural resources coming down from the Canadian north, it would be a complicating factor, and a coven of globalist stooges wielding Canada’s trade goods as a weapon is not a complication the new regime wants.

America needs, as a minimum condition, a trustworthy and stable ally guarding its northern frontier. As things stand, it does not have that. Nor is it likely to get that any time soon.

So, wat do?

II. Manifest Destiny and the Monroe Doctrine
If Canada needs regime change, and Canada cannot achieve regime change internally, the obvious answer is to impose regime change. Either circulate the elites, such that a friendly albeit still nominally independent regime comes to power, or simply annex the country outright.

Annexation is far more complex than just bullying Ottawa into becoming a compliant, well-behaved vassal state again. But it is also a unified application of two core American principles: Manifest Destiny, and the Monroe Doctrine.


The Monroe Doctrine holds that no foreign power can be allowed to gain a foothold in the Western hemisphere, which must remain the exclusive imperial backyard of the United States. This was what motivated the steady expulsion of the Spanish and Portuguese empires from Latin America and Brazil, and what motivated the US to gradually peel Canada away from the influence of its OG nemesis the British Empire. By deliberately turning itself into the catspaw of China and India, Canada places itself in direct violation of the Monroe Doctrine.


American Progress, John Gast, 1872
Manifest Destiny is the notion that white Americans had been given North America by Providence, and that it was both a historical inevitability and sacred duty to settle the entirety of the continent, establishing an Anglo Empire spanning from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Gulf of Mexico America to the Arctic Ocean. Inspired by this sense of divine mission, once unleashed from the restraining hand of London, Americans broke free from their confines on the East Coast and sent waves of settlers rushing west to push all the way to the Pacific in a few short, tumultuous decades.

Canada has been an obstacle to Manifest Destiny from the very beginning, but after a short-lived attempt to seize British North America by force in the War of 1812, Washington decided to let well enough be. Canada might not be formally part of the American Empire, but it is – or was – overwhelmingly settled by Anglos virtually indistinguishable from Americans. “Close enough,” the Americans shrugged, and carried on with the second phase of their empire-building, evolving from an inland tellurocracy to a global maritime imperium, recapitulating in two hundred years an evolution that took their Anglo-Saxon forebears a thousand.

Just because Washington was mostly satisfied with the status quo does not mean that the old ambition of a single, unified, continental Anglo fortress-state was dead. And indeed, it seems that Trump has pulled Manifest Destiny out of the back drawer, blown the dust off of the Monroe Doctrine, and thrown them both down on the desk in the Oval Office.

Considered dispassionately, the United States has never had a better opportunity to annex Canada, and such an opportunity may never come again. Canada is broke and defenceless. The Canadian people are angry and demoralized. The weak Canadian government elicits contempt from every Canadian who does not work for it. Culturally, the country is completely deracinated, thanks entirely to the Canadian government’s own deliberate policy, which has for sixty years been to systematically erase Canadian identity. Indeed, sixty years ago to the very day that this is being published, the Red Ensign flag that bore the coat of arms displaying Canada’s ethnic heritage was replaced with the empty corporate logo of the maple leaf; in that sense, February 15th can be seen as the grim anniversary of the beginning of Canada’s end. Never before has Canada been so helpless; never before have Canadians been so disenchanted; never before have Canadians had less to fight for; never before has the Great White North been more ripe for the plucking.

Thus Trump, gloryhound that he is, with a nose for weakness and a taste for opportunity, has decided to pluck the prize that has been all but tossed at his feet. If he does so, not only does he shore up American national security, but he becomes the president who finally completed the grand project of Manifest Destiny by consolidating the entirety of North America under one flag. That’s the kind of thing they carve your face onto mountains for.


What follows is neither prediction nor prophecy. Nor, I emphasize, is it advocacy. It is simply what I would do, if I was America, and faced with both the necessity of solving the Canada problem, and offered the opportunity that problem presents on a silver platter. Obviously this is all speculation. I don’t know for sure that this is what the Trump administration is doing. However, it seems very clear that they are doing something – that there is a plan unfolding. Perhaps this is what that plan looks like.

Before we get to the fun part, I’m going to interrupt the flow of this essay to remind you that it was written by an actual human being, whose primary source of income is the generosity of his readers. You don’t have to pay to read this, I put all of my essays out there for free, because after all I want people to read them. That’s sort of the point. But still, things like food and a roof over my head are, you know, nice to have. So if you can’t pay or really, really just don’t want to, that’s fine, you know, I won’t hold it against you. Only a very tiny fraction of my readers chip in to become supporters. It’s an exclusive club, which comes with the profound emotional benefit of knowing that you, the aristocratic patron, are making it possible for the people in the cheap seats to enjoy the show.


III. Maple Maidan
Step 0: The Opening Act

This is where we are now. It’s setting the scene, preparing the mark. Trump throws around apparently outrageous and seemingly lunatic statements about making Canada the 51st state, and threatens the country with crippling tariffs. This immediately gets everyone’s attention – most especially that of the Laurentian elite, who know full well that Canadian annexation would mean the end of their cozy little abusive relationship with the captive people they’re smothering to death with imported scab labour and real estate scams. The Laurentian elite get baited into beating their chests with the Canadian flag that only a short time before they flew at half mast in performative paroxysms of ethnomasochistic shame over their made-up story about the evidence-free genocide at the residential schools, proclaiming their eternal patriotic loyalty for a post-national economic zone with no core identity, and promising retaliatory tariffs that will further impoverish the already immiserated Canadian people.

In short, the Canadian political class are made to look quite ridiculous.

Initially of course the Canadian people – propagandized for generations to hate Americans, because post-national Canadians only really define themselves as being Not-Americans – will eat it right up, but after all, they have to say they’re not interested in Trump’s offer. It’s the old joke about the difference between a politician and a lady: if a politician says yes he means maybe, if he says maybe he means no, and if he says no he’s no politician; if a lady says no she means maybe, if she says maybe she means yes, and if she says yes she’s no lady.

So as we open the game, the Canadian public are vociferously opposed to political union with their ancient southern frenemy. Three quarters of young Canadians ‘would never vote to become part of the United States’.


But take a closer look at those numbers. The bottom question, in particular, is revealing. Sweeten the deal by letting Canadians transfer all of their loonie-denominated assets into greenbacks on a one-for-one basis, and the 23% of young Canadians who would vote to join the US in the first question almost doubles to 43%. From Trump’s perspective, that says it all. We’re just playing hard to get; we are haggling, as the old joke has it, over the price. What’s that line of Trump’s? Something about grabbing them by the beaver?

Step 1: Imposition of Tariffs

The tariffs put immediate and devastating stress on Canada’s already shaky economy. The weak Canadian dollar drops, making imports more expensive. Canadian exports to the US all but cease, producing mild economic distress in the US but catastrophically hollowing out the Canadian economy.

In the short run, this produces a wave of intensified anti-American sentiment, which is capitalized upon by Canadian political leaders seeking to get the Canadian population to rally around the flag. With luck, Canadian politicians can be baited into deploying counter-tariffs on US imports, which will have very little impact on the American economy, but further devastate the Canadian economy by driving prices even higher.

Step 2: Psychological Operations
This isn’t so much a sequential step as a second, and crucial, prong of the attack (indeed it starts before the tariffs even kick in). Trump formally offers Canada entry into the US as one (or perhaps multiple) states, with full voting rights, US passports, protection of the US constitution, maybe even conversion of assets, etc.

This is of course rejected out of hand by Canadian political leaders, who have a good thing going, and it is initially rejected by a majority of Canadians, who have only bad things going, but have their pride to consider.

However, the economic crisis is powerful argument. Canadians are defaulting on their mortgages, homelessness is increasing, people are going hungry. Therefore, alternative proposals are put forward in the Canadian media, such as closer trading ties with China, or even joining the EU ... an idea which was floated last month by the Economist.


Why giving up Canada’s sovereignty to the unelected European Commission across the ocean in Brussels should be preferable to giving up its sovereignty to the United States is not, of course, immediately obvious, and the very fact that this option is being publicly considered undermines the case being made by Canada’s no-core-identitarian post-nationalists that they really care about Canadian sovereignty, man.

While Ottawa flounders about and makes itself look silly, the US launches a full-spectrum propaganda assault, principally via social media platforms. This assault proceeds across multiple narrative attack vectors, with the goal of delegitimizing the Canadian state by emphasizing its multiple failures to safeguard the interests of the Canadian people, e.g. the policy of replacement migration, the housing crisis, the deplorable state of the military, the rampant corruption, the high taxes, the failure to properly develop resources, infiltration of the government by hostile foreign adversaries, and so on (they’re really spoiled for choice here). The overall message is that the Laurentian elite are corrupt, lazy, and even traitorous; that they are holding the Canadian people hostage; that they are the tools of foreign powers. “Why do your leaders tell you to hate us, your brothers, and instead make common cause with aliens from distant lands, with whom you have nothing in common? Whose side are they really on?”

The anti-government messaging is reinforced by a ‘cyber-attack’ upon Canadian government archives, which subjects large parts of them to an AI-driven network-tracing audit which uncovers unmistakable signs of extensive corruption. Think DOGE without enforcement powers, engaged in purely as a propaganda exercise.

The blistering attack upon the Laurentian elite’s legitimacy is accompanied by a clearly articulated positive vision: the opportunities that will open to Canadians as American citizens, the possibilities for development that come with an integrated North American fortress state, the settlement of the northern frontier, etc. Once again, this leaves the Laurentian elite flatfooted, as their only vision for Canada is the ‘Canada 2100’ plan: a largely Indian population of 100 million by the year 2100, living like cockroaches in megacities huddling up against the American border for warmth, presided over by a total state that swallows the sclerotic economy and micromanages every detail of everyone’s miserable daily urban peasant life. Not that they’ve bothered to articulate this vision to the Canadian people, many of whom don’t even know about it ... but this unspeakable horror really is all they have. And of course, this will be pointed out, too.

Step 3: Boiling Over
A ‘spontaneous’ call for a referendum on joining the US emerges on social media. This is taken up enthusiastically by many Canadians, but also of course rejected out of hand by the Canadian government and its domestic supporters.

The Canadian population, stressed by the economic crisis, splits down the middle. Some – particularly older Canadians, and those who work for the government – blame the Americans, and consider those who blame Ottawa to be traitors to the Canadian state; others blame Ottawa, who they consider traitors to the Canadian people.

It does not go unnoticed that the factions have a definite racial valence. Pro-union and anti-government forces are overwhelmingly heritage Canadians, for whom the government’s immigration policies are the major secondary issue, only recently (post-tariffs) eclipsed by the economy. Pro-government factions consist of both white Canadians and immigrant populations. The latter do not care so much one way or the other about Canadian sovereignty, as they are in no way Canadian; they simply want to keep immigration high and to maintain the existing DEI ethnic preference structure, and they intuit that the new sheriff in Washington will not be so accommodating as their existing patrons in Ottawa. The alliance between immigrant and pro-government white Canadians is additional fuel for the pro-union white Canadians to consider their opponents traitors, as they manifestly prefer allegiance with hostile foreigners over friendship with their brothers. Pro-government forces, by contrast, characterize union supporters as retrograde racists who are also traitors working for a foreign power.

Until recently filled to bursting, Toronto begins to empty out. Many recent arrivals abandon the uncertain turmoil gripping Canada for their home countries, collapsing the real estate market in the process. With them go the last tattered shreds of plausibility clinging to the long-standing official narrative that new Canadians are just as Canadian as everyone else.

Rallies and counter-rallies for one faction or another begin to pop off in cities all over the country. The government, panicking, tries shutting down Xwitter and other social media; it freezes the bank accounts of dissidents; anti-government protests are attacked by both riot police and pro-government factions, to whom the police turn a blind eye.

Inevitably, and essentially instantaneously, footage of the Canadian government’s heavy-handed tactics reaches the Internet. American popular opinion is galvanized: their Canadian brothers and sisters are being held hostage by a tyrannical, abusive regime, and they need to be liberated as a matter of urgent moral necessity. Republican senators begin to make noises about military intervention, to a chorus of great enthusiasm on social media, further panicking Ottawa. Volunteer militias begin spontaneously forming in the US, heading up to assist their beleaguered pro-union brethren; the Canadian government of course tries to prevent their entrance, leading to standoffs and clashes on the border.

Step 5: Fragmentation
The divided Canadian body politic begins to crack along long-standing geocultural fault-lines.

Alberta, which has for decades felt that it was being plundered by Ontario and Quebec, declares its independence, and applies to the US for membership.

Annoyed that Alberta beat it to the punch, Quebec splits away soon after, declaring itself to be a sovereign republic.

Now geographically severed from Canada, never too fond of Eastern Canada at the best of times, but not well-disposed towards the US, either, British Colombia opens negotiations with Alberta, proposing the alternative of joining them as a new country rather than becoming a state. Simultaneously a movement begins in Vancouver to declare itself as an independent city-state, similar to Hong Kong (from which many of its residents originate) or Singapore.

Cut off from Ontario by Quebec’s secession, and with no prospect of forming a viable country of their own, the maritime provinces also announce their intent to apply for statehood.

In the mood of mass hysteria sweeping the country, these separatist movements are widely seen as illegitimate and treacherous, but the Canadian state’s thinly stretched human resources are not capable of doing anything to prevent the provinces leaving, particularly after 1) Alberta’s application is readily accepted, and American military forces move in to cement the state of Alberta’s new status, and 2) the entirety of the francophone military and police services in Quebec defects to the new Republic of Quebec.

Step 6: Maple Maidan
At this point, Canada has effectively been reduced to Ontario, the geographically extensive but largely unpopulated provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and the empty northern territories.

Ontario is deeply divided. Loyalist forces are heavily concentrated in Toronto, Ottawa, and a few of the other big cities, where the more liberal and socialist populations regard takeover by what they see as fascist American imperialism with horror. In the rural areas, the mood is bitter and vengeful. Annexation is no more popular there, but it is widely regarded as an inevitability at this point, a least-bad-option, and their anger is reserved solely for the corrupt and incompetent elite in Ottawa whose feckless mismanagement brought the country to this dreadful pass.

An officially unsanctioned nation-wide referendum is ‘spontaneously’ organized over social media, using cryptographic ID verification to ensure that only Canadian citizens vote, and they only vote once. The pro-union vote carries the day. Ottawa refuses to recognize it, claiming that the vote was unsecured, illegitimate, and certainly rigged. Unionists retort that the process was entirely open and secure, that every single participant was a verified Canadian citizen, and that the Canadian people have made their choice.

Unionist forces converge on Ottawa for a massive rally in order to force parliament to accept the referendum results, essentially placing the city under occupation. Ottawa responds by freezing the assets of all identifiable organizers and supporters, arresting everyone they can, and charging them with sedition. Unlike in the case of the 2022 Freedom Convoy, however, this time the people fight back. The streets of Ottawa become a de facto war zone, with riot police and the Canadian military clashing with Unionist protesters equipped with improvised weapons.

Step 6: Annexation
Appalled by footage of the brutal repressive measures being used by the Canadian government, US domestic public opinion is now firmly on the side of annexation. The US intervenes. There is only token resistance from the Canadian Armed Forces when the US military crosses the border into Ontario; most units simply surrender on the spot. A day later Ottawa has been surrounded, and American troops move in demanding that Canadian government forces lay down their arms. It’s all over in a day.

Step 7: Aftermath
The international community (i.e. Europe) is appalled by what they call naked American aggression, with comparisons being made to Russia’s annexation of the Crimea. This ends with an sharp exchange on X, in which Vance responds “We don’t really care, Ursula,” while Trump posts “Maybe Putin was onto something” on Truth social, following up with an AI-generated image of Trump staring across the ocean at an EU flag.

There is intense political wrangling over the precise terms under which Canada will join the US. The Canadian provinces in general want individual statehood. Since each new state adds two senators, and there is widespread apprehension that this would effectively add 20 Democratic senators to Congress, this is bitterly resisted by Congressional Republicans, who instead push for statehood to apply to Canada as a whole, suggesting that Canada could join the US in a similar fashion to Scotland’s union with Great Britain: retaining its parliament and its own internal political structure, but with Ottawa subordinated to Washington. The western provinces and Quebec are completely opposed to this, as they want no part of Ottawa.

In the end, a compromise is reached: British Colombia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba join the new state of Alberta, for practical matters of geographic proximity and in recognition of Alberta having been the first province to apply. Alberta is now, by far, the largest state in the union. Likewise the maritime provinces, all of which are consolidated into Nova Scotia (which Newfoundland is particularly unhappy about, but it’s Newfoundland, and no one cares). Ontario and Quebec also remain separate. For now Quebec elects to remain as an independent country, although talks are ongoing to bring Quebec into the union under similar terms as Texas, e.g. with the right to secede at will. The short-lived attempt at an independent Vancouver is squashed after it becomes clear that this movement is being driven by Chinese intelligence.

Canadian government archives are opened up for inspection, and decades of mismanagement and fraud come to light. Numerous government officials face charges for a variety of scandals involving corruption and espionage. A comprehensive de-globalisation program ensues. Adherents of globalist organizations such as the WEF are barred from holding office and, in some cases, prosecuted.

At the same time, steps are taken to cleanse Canada of foreign influence. This begins with mass deportations of immigrants residing in the country under temporary visas, which are declared no longer valid, as the country that issued them no longer exists. Permanent residency permits are also placed under careful review, as are citizenships granted within the previous decade, on the grounds that the regime granting these documents did not carry out proper vetting procedures.

The emotional tenor of the country remains tense for some time. There are numerous Canadian irredentists who consider the new government to be an occupying power, and see those who voted for union as traitors. A radical underground forms, which receives a certain degree of funding and other support from external powers which hope to foster terrorist activity to harass the US and bog it down in pacification of its new northern possession, and indeed there are sporadic incidents of sabotage, assassination, and IEDs, along with anti-union protests and graffiti. Nevertheless, the almost immediate economic relief provided by the end of tariffs, the massive reduction of taxes, the dramatically increased trade volume, and a housing market that has been deflated by the simultaneous reduction in the number of foreign residents and curtailment of money laundering, all contribute to a general improvement in the national mood, with many Canadians readily admitting that life is simply much better than it has been in a long time.

Canadian industry immediately benefits from unhampered American investment. With continental tariffs protecting domestic industry, manufacturing returns to Canada as part of the general re-shoring. Resource development picks up dramatically. Employment is suddenly available in abundance, both in the revitalized industrial centres of the Great Lakes, and in booming northern resource towns.

Hollywood abruptly discovers Canadian military history, and begins mining it as a rich source of narrative novelty. A blockbuster is released about the Seven Year’s War, following a young George Washington, Major-General James Wolfe, and Louis-Joseph Montcalm as stand-ins for the American, British, and French factions in the conflict, depicting each as heroic if flawed men, and reconciling the factions at the end with the climactic scene of the storming of Quebec City.

The Canadian Armed Forces, now incorporated into the American force structure under terms somewhat similar to the National Guard, but uniquely permitted to retain its old traditions, dress uniforms, rank structure, and territorial organization, immediately benefits from a massive infusion of American defence spending. Its officer corps is almost entirely purged, with the political appointees of the old regime removed and, in some cases, court martialed; purged officers are replaced with retired officers (some of whom were kicked out by the old regime’s political purges), augmented by cadre on loan from the American military. Its ranks swell as America’s attention pivots to England, aka Woke North Korea, where civil violence between the native British, West Asian immigrants, and the occupying globalist government is spiralling out of control. Calls go out to free the motherland, and Canada prepares to once again send its home and native sons across the ocean to save Europe from itself.


IV. Final Thoughts
No doubt some, perhaps even all, of the aftermath described above may arise from wishful thinking on my part. It is undoubtedly the most speculative element in the proposed sequence of events. Forced political union between the US and Canada is a complex task in which a great deal can go very wrong, with much of it depending on how the US treats Canada after absorbing it. In the short term it may be much easier for Canada to simply be made a territory, like Guam or Puerto Rico, without voting rights; this would mitigate the risk that Canadian voters might swing American elections disastrously towards the left. In the long term this would breed resentment in Canada, providing fertile grounds for radicalization. This would only be exacerbated if the US treated Canada like a source of loot to plunder, cutting Canadians out of the profits to be made from the use of their own land and natural resources. Granting Canada (or is provinces) statehood, and making Canadians into citizens of the United States no different from any other, would prevent such resentments from taking root. If the American South can be reconciled to the Union following the carnage of the Civil War and the terror of Reconstruction, there is no reason that the same might not be done for Canadians after a much shorter and relatively bloodless conflict.

As I said above, none of this should be taken as advocacy for annexation. Personally, I do not look forward to the prospect of Canada ceasing to exist as a sovereign entity. All else being equal, I would vastly prefer my nation to have its own, independent state. Yet the facts of the matter are that the Canadian state has not been working in the interests of the Canadian nation for a very long time, and indeed, the Canadian nation faces extinction in the very near future, both culturally and genetically, at the hands of a state that seems determined to exterminate it in the pursuit of its malign social engineering projects.

Moreover, the Canadian ruling class has proven itself utterly incapable of shepherding the genius of the Canadian people. It has not properly developed the country, but has been content to skim the cream of the resource trade. Every time a Canadian corporation has developed some innovative, world-leading technology, the governing class finds a way to screw it up. Every generation the most capable, ambitious, and talented Canadians depart for greener pastures, usually to the US. In every conceivable way, Canada’s ruling class has lost the mandate of heaven.

As a result of this colossal fumbling by Canada’s leaders, absorption into the US leviathan may well prove to be an historical inevitability. It brings me no pleasure to write that. However, if this is to be Canada’s fate, there is little point in raging against it. Instead, Canadian nationalists should ask themselves how our nations might continue to thrive within this wider political structure, without dissolving into the American melting pot. Indeed, if anyone can do that, Canadians can. From the very beginning Canada’s founding peoples have shared a state, letting each have their territory, while cooperating – or attempting to cooperate – on matters of federal importance. Neither the Quebecois nor the Anglo-Canadian have ever existed within an exclusive nation-state; both have always been part of one multi-national imperial project or another. Annexation could indeed be an opportunity for Anglo-Canadians in particular to reassert their own sense of national distinctiveness, which has for so long been bound up within the broader Canadian project that it has by now almost entirely disappeared within the murk of official multiculturalism.

A final thought, regarding the different temperaments of the Canadian and American peoples. Famously, Americans are liberals, who love freedom; Canadians are traditionalists, who love authority. Insofar as Americans have expressed concern over the prospect of Canadian statehood, it is in their worry that Canadians will distort American politics to the left. In the short term this may well be the case, as Canadians have been systematically groomed by their government into embracing values entirely antithetical to their true character. The real danger, if you want to call it that, is that Canadian authoritarianism will seep into the American political system, both due to Canadian votes, and due to Canadians entering directly into the American civil service. Of course, given the close ties between the countries, this is a matter of degree; it has already been happening for some time. Yet this may be an asset for America. If it is to become a true empire, those elements of the Canadian character that emphasize continuity with tradition and the competent operation of an orderly, limited, yet powerful state may be crucial to stabilizing that empire in the long term.
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Canada’s (& Europe’s) Thorough Subversion
« Reply #189 on: February 16, 2025, 08:39:10 AM »
A thoroughly depressing, and perhaps overstated, read regarding the state of Canada, to a lesser yet thorough degree Europe, with a side of US tossed in from grins and giggles:

https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/deport-them-all-the-immigration-consensus?r=2k0c5&triedRedirect=true(