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Trump touts Canada-U.S. ‘merger’ in White House meeting, says Carney will ‘be very happy’ after meeting (www.ctvnews.ca)
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[–] 108 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

I don't want any US deal, at all. I want sovereignty and democracy above all and that means cutting the US out of our supply chains. Lets get cross border trade to zero.

I don't buy from or sell to fascists and I don't take threats lightly.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    I don't either. I think we should be totally closing the borders, and kicking off the start of their decline. If you look at the history books, it tells you not to basically turn them economically inside out, but the history books also tell you not to appease them, so honestly I'd go with the former not the latter.

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  • [+] -18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I want sovereignty and democracy above all

    Well, so did the Iraqis and the Afghanis and the Libyans and the Palestinians. Nevertheless, I think we can all agree that Americans will be greeted as liberators.

    Lets get cross border trade to zero.

    Practically speaking, that's impossible. The actual population of Canada is distributed in a thin smear over the tops of the US, primarily clustered in major metro areas that pair with American cities. Trying to divide Detroit and Windsor or Toronto and Buffalo would be about as easy as dividing Ft. Worth from Dallas, or Laredo, TX from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.

    Virtually no one living in these communities actually wants that. Hell, Canada has its fair share of Trumpies while America has a healthy chunk of New England / Midwestern Polite People. It wouldn't even be a clean split. You'd need to do some kind of Iraq Civil War Sunni / Shia militant purging to get to where you're trying to go.

    You would have more luck annexing US territory down to 47th parallel than to cut off trade with US border towns.

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