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In other words, some Republican senators still want to insert the knife into Caanda, to drain our lifeblood, but they want it done compassionately.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This motivates me more in my boycott.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Why? It's abundantly clear any further chances will be pissed upon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I might, in four years or so, but probably not. There's a segment of Americans that have the memories of goldfish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I'll be fascinated to see who the R candidate is, and if the election is free and fair at all.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There are simply too many reasons to say no. How the US treats people entering and leaving the country. How due process is ignored for people within the country.

In broad terms the US is an unkind society. This is not to say that there are not kind individuals, but they are unable to influence the overall norm that is so clearly on display.

You don’t get to cause so many damages to a partner and then suggest we give you another chance. That ship has sailed and I am ready for us to find other trading partners and address our own internal trade barriers.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The Americans are an adversarial us-vs-them society. There always has to be a loser in the American culture.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

🤣😸😂😝😹🥹🤨🤣😸😝😅🙄🫤

No.

Eject the fascist first, then we can talk.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

No, no talk until they understand "recognition and reconciliation policy. "

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Nope. Not in my lifetime.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

tRump is just a symptom. The USA is and always has been an oligarchy, founded on genocide and grown through slavery, patriarchy and misogyny. The original constitution gave ALL political power to Rich White Males and only superficial changes have been made over the last 250 years, the real power still remains with the oligarchs. tRump has just dropped the mask for the world to see what a fascist shit-stain of a country the U.S. really is at its core. The world (and Canada) will be extremely unwise to ever trust them again no matter which faction of the oligarchy is in power.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

When Americans understand what ' recognition and reconciliation policy' is all about, they might also understand where they went wrong with Canadians.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Until we stop electing sociopaths, we don’t deserve a second chance from anybody. Canadians know that, unlike the fools who elected you.

Senators, all you’re doing is further insulting a previously close ally. The best thing you can do is shut up.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

The best thing senators can do is vote to convict Trump's impeachment.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I'm a fan of balkanization. That'd fix a lot of problems quickly, albeit for a limited number of states and at the cost of making things worse for other states.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I read this in the voice of professor farnsworth from futurama.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

Go jump in a lake

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is the only response needed to any overtures from the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAbATWsvjTE

And sorry Democrats, until you get your Republican problem under control, we can't trust you either. In 2016 it looked like it might just be a flare-up, but the reappearance of symptoms indicates that the infection is deeper and ongoing.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

hey canada, actually keep up the good work. we got some folks down here who don't get it yet. we'll be in touch once we've fixed our shit

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

You have almost an entire POPULATION that 'doesn't get it yet'.

Call us when you understand what 'recognition and reconciliation policy'. is all about.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

10 years after you hang that orange Turd we might think about it. Until then fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Actually, US senators are in a position to do something that would actually go some way toward repairing relations with Canada - they can (with the House's cooperation) remove the profoundly mentally ill, immensely dangerous and brazenly corrupt demagogue Trump from office.

Nothing short of that is going to accomplish much of anything though. As long as that psychopath is in office, incrementally turning the presidency into a dictatorship from which to pursue his literally insane agenda, nobody will or should trust the US for anything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A profound apology would also help.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

How about fucking off to your backwards country.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

From NYT:

As for Mr. Trump’s threats of annexation? “We don’t even want them to be the 51st state,” Mr. Cramer said with a laugh. But unable to resist, he added: “We want Alberta to be the 51st state. And then we have two Republican senators.”

Fuck these guys. They're the usual entitled American idiots, blundering around in foreign countries without understanding them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

What a completely tactless piece of trash thing to say.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I don't know if that is a good idea for us. Even if in two years they take back congress and the senate, the next two years after that they could put in another pack of lunatic fascists. I think we should continue with our diversifying strategy and put much more effort into CETA and CPTPP.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

It is their entire adversarial culture that needs to change. The Americans HAVE to have an enemy, even if they change a friend into an enemy.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (2 children)

“Bookings of Canadians to come to Virginia Beach are down significantly, and colleagues of mine in other states are saying the same thing about tourism,” Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia told Stephenson. “So we’re definitely seeing it.

I will never visit the United States again. You have the gestapo snatching people off the streets now. A large percentage of your population approves of what is happening, while not requiring the propaganda to reach or hold that conclusion.

“We were aware, because we all have great friends in Canada, that there was a lot of anxiety about, well, gosh, what do Americans think of us?” he said in explaining what spurred the senators’ visit. “The five of us wanted to come to say, ‘Look, we love Canada.'”

The anxiety that you're referencing is a direct result of your country unilaterally choosing to betray us. Not that guy Donald Trump, but you. You enabled all of this, and you have absolutely no idea how to walk any of this back. You're under the impression that you can fix this in an election cycle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

An unambiguous apology and groveling would help.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A large percentage of your population approves of what is happening, while not requiring the propaganda to reach or hold that conclusion.

I agree with everything else here, but propaganda absolutely plays a role in the current fascist movement in the States. The Venn diagram of Trump supporters and people who watch Fox News is probably pretty close to a circle.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

To be clear, propaganda matters.

I'm saying that there's a segment of the fascist populace that is utterly aware of what is real, what is bullshit, and are quite content with the presence of said bullshit, as long as it maintains the current reality.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 4 days ago (2 children)

As an American: DO NOT TRUST REPUBLICANS.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

As a Canadian, DO NOT TRUST AMERICANS IN GENERAL.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've known that since the age of 6. lol To me they always seem to hide something, not tell the whole story. And they're mostly background racists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Your second sentence is just politicians in general.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 days ago (1 children)

“We’ll be better at it if we’re friends than if we’re just tolerating one another…. I’m just here (in Ottawa) to say thank you, and then to encourage Canadians to take another look and give us another chance.”

You can’t talk about making Canada into the 51st state and then cry for another chance. As far as I’m aware, most Canadians have a backbone. A concept utterly alien to conservatives.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think you are mistaken. The common American politician, upon biopsy, has been found without a backbone. It keeps its form with an exoskeleton, shed once every 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Seems more like it's once every 2-4 years they shed the ol' exoskeleton. 😅

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Depends on the species, but yes some in the genus shed more often than others

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Come to America !

See our beautiful prisons and concentration camps.

Buy American and you can feel like a Nazi too!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 days ago

Not woke and DEI enough to receive our trade and tourism dollars, sorry.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Never for me regardless if who's ruling is democrats or republican

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago

From that article,

"He [Carney] announced a $6-billion purchase of over-the-horizon radar systems from Australia in March as part of the government’s ongoing NORAD modernization project.'

A NORAD radar.

From Australia.

That just HAS to sent the Americans a message about Carney's thinking towards the Americans.

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