Should Canada Become a Neutral Country?

[Unforgiven]

Well, you're certainly a Gloomy Gus, aren't you?

Takes one to know one.

 

[Unforgiven]

Canada would never get annexed by the US. Why? Because the British, and other Commonwealth countries such as Australia, would declare war against them.

The US couldn't touch Canada without risking British nukes hitting Washington DC (we all know that some of Britain's nuclear weapons are pointing right at the American capital city right now).

It'd also give us the opportunity to burn the White House again. It was too easy to do last time. We want a challenge the next time it happens. It'd be good to fight wars against the Americans when they are using proper weapons rather than pitchforks.

And considering that the British are renowned for beating numerically superior foes (the French at Agincourt, the French and Spanish at Trafalgar and the Germans at the Battle of Britain) you shouldn't bet against the British in a war against the US if they decide to invade Canada.

Annexation without a single shot fired. How many Canadians do you think wish Canada was more like the US? They are already won over. How may simply apathetic people who don't vote anyway will just go along as long as they get their pay cheque at the end of the day? Since when will they get up and fight for some set of bills passing through the House?

If we are in fact neutral, we no longer are a part of the Commonwealth countries. And so, legally and morally bear no allegence to either Britian or Australia.

No I'm afraid that there would be no violent uprising. We've traded religion for reality tv, the Internet and the video game console.

The revolution may be televised but we won't bother watching.

 

[Northboy]

Simply put, look at Cuba.

We dance to the tune the American comsumer plays due to the trade imbalance.

While I understand the whole suffer in the short term for long term gain, take a look around you and consider who would be willing to loose their home, go on welfare, if thats even still available and give up the current standard of living they now enjoy. That there is what you call one short line pal.

Legitimate point, but what if the conditions were different and this issue of public welfare was not on the table??

You'd be surprised at the skills and blessings some people have in this country when it comes to developing economic circumstance.

 

[Toro]

Simply put, look at Cuba.

We dance to the tune the American comsumer plays due to the trade imbalance.

You sure do. The economy wouldn't be as strong without it.

 

[Toro]

Takes one to know one.

Pffft.

I'm a happy guy.

I live in Florida.

 

[Unforgiven]

Legitimate point, but what if the conditions were different and this issue of public welfare was not on the table??

You'd be surprised at the skills and blessings some people have in this country when it comes to developing economic circumstance.

Yeah what if we as a country manufactured goods from our own resources rather than ship them to other countries and buy the goods back?

Unfortunatly we just aren't that bright.

 

[Unforgiven]

Pffft.

I'm a happy guy.

I live in Florida.

Happy like a clown. I can see your inner child weeping from here.

 

[ottawabill]

If you want this country to be neutral fine..but then don't get upset when we have no say in the world and no one cares to listen. Canadians get very upset when the U.S. ignores us (seems that it generally what they want?)

If you stand up for nothing, if you never draw a line in the sand, you will be ignored...who has ever cared what the Swiss think?

 

[Toro]

Happy like a clown. I can see your inner child weeping from here.

That's bizarre.

 

[Unforgiven]

That's bizarre.

I've seen it before, so I'm used to it now.

 

[Andem]

I'm surprised to see Blackleaf would support Britain coming to the aid of Canada. He doesn't seem to respect the country much in its-self but respects the past and ties Canada and Britain have together.

If the US invaded Canada, the whole world would be in an uproar I'm sure. I don't know about Australia coming to the aid of Canada but yet I'm not 100% sure of the responsibilities of being part of the Commonwealth.

 

[triedit]

Trust me, the US doesn't want to "annex" Canada. At least not so long as Quebec is part of the deal.
Sure, we'll take your oil and your water, but the rest of you pacifist tokers can stay with the Queen.

 

[karrie]

Trust me, the US doesn't want to "annex" Canada. At least not so long as Quebec is part of the deal.
Sure, we'll take your oil and your water, but the rest of you pacifist tokers can stay with the Queen.

? Wow.

 

[triedit]

Purple print=sarcastic, right?

 

[karrie]

Purple print=sarcastic, right?

I couldn't tell that was purple! lol.

 

[Unforgiven]

Trust me, the US doesn't want to "annex" Canada. At least not so long as Quebec is part of the deal.
Sure, we'll take your oil and your water, but the rest of you pacifist tokers can stay with the Queen.

Are you even American anymore? By now you must be some sort of
Ameri-Canadian.

Actually there are more tokers in America than in Canada. More pacifists too so actually it is the Americans who are the pacifist tokers and We Canadians who will take their money and holiday destinations.

 

[Phil B]

I'm surprised to see Blackleaf would support Britain coming to the aid of Canada. He doesn't seem to respect the country much in its-self but respects the past and ties Canada and Britain have together.

If the US invaded Canada, the whole world would be in an uproar I'm sure. I don't know about Australia coming to the aid of Canada but yet I'm not 100% sure of the responsibilities of being part of the Commonwealth.

The commonwealth is not a military alliance, from my understanding it started off as an economic bloc which seems to have lost direction somewhat.

 

[Northboy]

Yeah what if we as a country manufactured goods from our own resources rather than ship them to other countries and buy the goods back?

Unfortunatly we just aren't that bright.

Some of us are working on that scenario;

Clean power from indigenous rewnewable resources- appliance development/ engineering/ manufacturing

Clean water through filtration following the above;

Botanical pharmeceuticals in conjunction with certain First Nation interests..

Some of us are working to create the circumstance to remove this "paycheque" obstacle

Goodwill being our weapon of choice....

 

[Northboy]

The commonwealth is not a military alliance, from my understanding it started off as an economic bloc which seems to have lost direction somewhat.

Very solid observation in my view.

Good on you.

 

[Unforgiven]

Some of us are working on that scenario;

Clean power from indigenous rewnewable resources- appliance development/ engineering/ manufacturing

Clean water through filtration following the above;

Botanical pharmeceuticals in conjunction with certain First Nation interests..

Some of us are working to create the circumstance to remove this "paycheque" obstacle

Goodwill being our weapon of choice....

That's nice. Some of us are not. And that's the problem. We can't survive with only a few of the cyclinders fireing. We can't even produce what we need. Hell by April we'd be rank with the scurvy and rickets.

It's not that we couldn't it's that we won't. We recycle yet have way more garbage than we can deal with. We have been at that for a long time now.
While we see examples, and I don't doubt that it would increase quite a bit should there be a disruption of this sort of economy, there would be so may people crushed by it, we'd turn back to the old ways long before we got half going.

This is why fear works on us so well. We're happy to accept the status quo if it provides enough of our little addictions to us.