My problem with the modern NDP is that I’d be happy voting for 2 out of the 3 frontrunners but as soon as I say which ones some random fellow NDP supporter will come out of nowhere to skewer me.

Time to get on board the alternative App Store train. First EU now everywhere.

“Best I can do is reducing your legroom.”

I agree. It’s far more important civilian goal to keep our communities fed and the heat on in winter if our supply lines are interrupted than it is to have matching uniforms and guns to combat drones equipped with AI pattern recognition.

We are not supplying our troops to fight for the US across the globe (NATO obligations aside.) We have free elections. We are free to set our own social welfare policies. While we can always strive more for additional separations and greater sovereignty there is a lot further to fall if we don’t learn lessons from around the world.

I have more faith in the average Canadian to do what’s right than in our elected officials. The travel and liquor boycotts and the new produce options at the grocery store speak to the average person’s elbows up mentality. We are meek-mannered and polite but we can also be extremely petty and we can hold grudges for a very long time.

We will not fold willingly into a vassal relationship, even if they get a PM or Premier to endorse the move.

Ah, then congratulations and welcome home soon.

Are you coming to claim asylum specifically?

If not, since you would be outside immigration channels either way, you may as well book a cushy vacation flight and avoid the frostbite that awaits a deep woods land crossing on foot

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It’s not about taking the territory, it’s about keeping it.

Canada’s advantage is that the resource investment to hold capture our mineral and oil resources isn’t worth the necessary human and economic costs.

You have a country full of angry people that look like the average American and speak the same language. That’s a guerrilla warfare disaster waiting to happen, and the US generals whose literal job is to consider this have sad as much.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/army-mobilization-canada-troops-9.7009323

Unclear but some roles floated were drone operators, logistics, neighborhood-level wardens… basically the small jobs the average citizen can do that would free up an active duty person for more specialized roles.

I am considering this. I’m not suited for combat but I could drive supplies, organize local aid, or do any number of support roles if a national defense or a distributed resistance effort is needed for some big dumb reason having to do with oil.

Incoming reclassification of maple syrup as a WMD.

2025 was the shock. I’m hoping 2026 will be the response.

I really hope AB doesn’t make confirming to stay in Canada a referendum vote tradition every few years. I have high hopes the vote to leave will be summarily trounced in this Can-US relations environment.

Paywalled, any more details?

Well I should hope so! Who’s hanging onto letters more than 400 years past their postmark date?

Public option banks, cell phone plans, and dry goods grocery store staples. Don’t try to out-Amazon Amazon. Let them take the bottom and do different things people want.

Sure. That’s why we have a system that fast-tracks professions in need over those without those qualifications.

We opened the gates in COVID because businesses convinced gov’t that there was a worker shortage (e.g “nobody wants to work for as cheap as we want to pay them”) in unskilled categories like hospitality, and because our student visa requirements are so lax that they effectively allow full-time employment instead of going to school. IMO these are two areas that need policy reform.

We also have valuable people who have immigrated returning to their expatriate countries because the path to citizenship promised is taking years or decades longer than they were promised. That’s just as unacceptable to me and we have to do better to retain doctors, engineers, and other professionals from whom we could mutually benefit.

It’s good to a point. You have to have the social supports to maintain a minimum standard. Letting too many people in at once and suddenly nobody has houses or doctors is not a good outcome for new or established Canadians.

Also reminder that voluntary immigration and temporarily accepting persecuted people for humanitarian reasons are different things.