• nandeEbisu@lemmy.world
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    Honestly, Canada takes Minnesota and the great lake state, and the east and west coasts form their own countries might not be the worst outcome in 10 years or so.

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    100% Fuck No!

    There are way too many Americans that will not adapt to Canadian culture. Even on the left there is heavy “American exceptionalism” brainwashing and they love guns and Jesus way too much.

    Remember that 1/3 of Americans wanted to do something other than Trump. 2/3rd wanted him or didn’t give a shit enough to vote.

    If Americans want a better life, they can move to Canada.

  • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Carney should send some kind of delegation down there. You know…nothing official. Just to “talk”.

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      I’d be curious to see how many are actually expatriating to Canada right now from the US.

      Whenever anyone left of The Homelander gets elected to office, there are waves of conservatives screaming about leaving the USA all over the internet and also getting on local news and shit, and the problem with this narrative from the right is that if they want to go somewhere further right than the US already is, they would have to go to somewhere like Russia… which is exactly what a couple did, ending predictably. The rest are too chickenshit to actually move to a place that doesn’t have the comforts liberal democracy has given them.

      But shit, Canada is a fantastic option if you’re trying to escape things like being sent to the frontline of a trench war and think that you shouldn’t be killed in the street for not having your papers, and they’re just a snowy fenceline away for thousands of miles. Is Carney drafting plans for a mass immigration?

      If he gets too many US refugees, will he have to make his own ICE to round up American immigrants? Can I at least ask my Canadian brothers up there to make sure it’s named ICE ICE BABY?

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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        waves of conservatives screaming about leaving the USA all over the internet and also getting on local news and shit

        The unfortunate thing with voters is that those most able to emigrate don’t vote Conservative; so all they can do is wonk at the press. When the lefties - typically better educated, as per the stats - want to emigrate, they actually have a chance.

        I’d like to see stats too, obviously.

  • Formfiller@lemmy.world
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    California Washington Oregon and Hawaii are in too and I don’t want to debate about Hawaii because we need to band together for protection from this evil regime standing alone isn’t an option at this time

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      It’s not new, these stories have been around a long time. And yeah nobody takes them seriously, it’s more of a meta-political cartoon type joke that gets shared as a way of saying “People talkin’ this way right about now”.

  • MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world
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    We should really be both breaking up into regions/countries that make sense:

    • “Cascadia”: British Columbia, Oregon and Washing State
    • The Maritimes and New England
    • Quebec
    • The South
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      No. With the exception of Quebec there is no good legal way nor particularly good reason to split Canada up. We aint gonna weaken ourselves because of some regional ‘vibes’. Provinces already tend to cooperate more within their region as it is.

      You can do whatever you want down there but keep us out of it.

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      How about, NO!

      Canada is Canada. We might be a bit different in the Maritime than in BC, but we are all fucking Canadian.

      Fuck off with your break up Canada bullshit.

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      CT resident here. I’ve seen trailer park boys. You’re never going to convince me to join the maritimes. Get oat of my trailer.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    I find it hilarious that this made its way to CBC. Usually they don’t stir the international politics pot like this.

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    I’m in. I love hockey, politeness, and poutine. I can handle winter and cold. I already know the anthem in English and French, because hockey. And I hate the Leafs.

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    Out of all the States, Minnesota is one of the few I’d have almost zero objection to welcoming in. “Minnesota Nice” and “Canadian Polite” are closely related (but somewhat different).

    Sadly, it will never happen. Adding a province requires re-opening the Constitution, and that’s not going to happen. (If you’re too young to remember, look up the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords)

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      Minnesota is already honorary Canadian and in my opinion, always has been.

      Constitutions are made up by people and people can change them. All you need to do is either get everyone to agree, or make sure the people who don’t agree can’t stop you. Trump chose the latter, and has completely ignored and dismantled the US constitution. Whatever comes out the other side is going to be very, very different. I’m not saying that we should do that. But in the face of an existential threat like that, I don’t think it’s beyond reason that we could, in fact, get everyone to agree. It’s amazing how staring mutual death and dissolution in the face can change the bitterest of rivalries into if not perfect alignment, at least a functional working relationship. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

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      My first thought. Would their politics shift right or are Manitoba and the PC only right-wing in the context of Canada?

      Minnesota has about 4x the population of Manitoba, by the way.

      Edits: subject-verb agreement and punctuation

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        Manitoba isn’t right wing…currently has a “socialialist” government. Maybe you mean Alberta?

        I don’t think it’s logical to talk about our respective peoples in those terms…we have many Canadians that are right of many Americans…and many Americans that are left of many Canadians.

        If we moved the border most normal people wouldn’t notice too much of a change…at the end of the day…but there’d be some irreconcilable sticking points like firearms.

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          Minnesota voted 47% for Trump last election. It would be the most right-wing province in Canada if it joined. No thanks.

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        I’m in Texas and have been looking into Manitoba, and can assure you based on their parties alone that it’s “only right-wing in the context of Canada” 100%.

        I have no idea what adding Minnesota would do though, it would completely change politics in the area even if it was its own province, never mind the US actually allowing that to happen.

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          Well, they support universal healthcare and abortion. The Manitoba PC is kind of a mix.

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            Tbf the only reason the PCs support abortion is because of our Supreme Court struck down the laws that criminalized it.

            In 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in R. v. Morgentaler that the existing law was unconstitutional, and struck down the 1969 Act. The ruling found that the 1969 abortion law violated a woman’s right to “life, liberty and security of the person” guaranteed under Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms established in 1982.

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

            Former PM Stephen Harper then put the last nail in the coffin when he announced the federal PCs would not challenge the ruling. This is because although abortion is considered legal here there is no law on the books that makes it so. If the PCs were to challenge the SCoC’s ruling they would likely force the feds to make a law the enshrined abortion care as legal.

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              Oh don’t worry, I’m under no delusion it’s some sort of leftist utopia, it’s just that Manitoba could be FAR worse. Please keep fighting for those rights regardless of whatever laws are in place, don’t just assume it’s all settled.

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      In the purely hypothetical situation where Minnesota joined Canada, it would most likely become its own province and not be fused with Manitoba.

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    If Minnesota goes, I bet Wisconsin would be soon to follow after recent events.