• AnthoNightShift@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Anyone ever watched the CBC mini series H2O ?

    Canada has about 10% of our neighbour’s population count, while flushed with natural resources they are running out of starting with clean water. If they go full far right, we become 51.

    • Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Doubtful we’d be allowed to be a state. A Puerto Rico scenario would probably be best case, or more likely, Afghanistan.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Exactly … we would be kept independent politically … but dependent economically … why would anyone want the expense of making us comfortable when they could just take all the wealth without the cost of governing a bunch of people.

        They want the resources … not the country.

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          Which is basically the situation we’ve been in since NAFTA was signed.

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      Exactly what I thought when I read the headline. One of the reasons we are relatively safe its because our neighbor protects us, but if they turn against us we are f*cked.

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      We would have options in that scenario. Europe and it’s nuclear powers might be persuaded to protect us, and failing that it’s said we’re months away from a bomb ourselves. Now, living right next to an unfriendly US would be rocky (while biologically possible), people might want to give up just for California lettuce.