politics

Pika, I think it is irrational to turn down free citizenship for any country

but I saw a couple Canadians saying that on Twitter, and wondered where you'd stand

Maybe I misunderstood the hypothetical

oh sorry, maybe I wrote it unclear

if this was a thing, and regardless of if I accepted it or not it was a thing, then sure whatever

I thought the question was would I think that is a deal Canada should go for

which the answer is no, because then we become the US in 5-10 years

yeah, the premise is that you don't get annexed, they just offer all longstanding Canadians dual citizenship

What if it were israeli citizenship

if you've been a Canadian citizen for at least 10 years as of July 4th, 2025

Dude, you know how much that would fuck my country up because of the indians playing the long game to get to the US

even more so than it already is

it would be a one-time thing

Trump should do this for Greenland to see what happens

I am mad at trump, him meme starting a trade war with Canada gave the Liberals a rallying cry, and now they are projected to beat Bloc for official opposition btw

he fucking stole the funniest outcome from me

Trump/Rubio/Youngkin's team are trying to think of scenarios to incorporate just Alberta now

which is funny

Funny, but also will not happen

I do not see a single Canadian provice joining the US. Quebec, followed by Alberta going independent are way more likely events

I think the whole premise of you can rush integration is funny

I've said before, if this was of interest, we could do it on a 10-year timeline

easily

BC has been trying to secede and make a new country with Washington for awhile

but there's zero chance anyone is serious

I do not think that is a serious effort Leg

or some people have in BC

I think that is very fringe

i'm all for it

I think you could find a US politician in every single state who has made a push for succession if you look hard enough

you always have some retard

there's a large portion of Illinois that is trying to join Indiana right now

but they do 100% have a real team looking into it now

I found out today

and not just like 1 guy

thats funny

it's just Alberta though

I was honestly surprised at just how much backlash against the US from Canadians there has been over the trade war stuff, it exceeded my thoughts on how many people would care

people are super annoyed over it

I kinda saw the opposite, where there wasn't enough actual support to get the government to stand firm

Idk, from where I sit most people are firmly annoyed

felt about the same as how vocally opposed random Americans were

Trudaeu being harder on the topic than Poliviere swung the libs like 5-10 points in polling if that says anything

cosnider have drastically bad it has been for them

trudeau resigned then is still in power anyway

Election has not happened

He is in charge until the election

He resigned in the sense that he is stepping down as party leader (and probably just retiring) after the election

They should make Trudeau the US ambassador after he finishes his term Pika

I think we'd all like that

Indian ambasador

more fitting

even better

ok Pika, I accept that this is still not going to happen

but I'm being told that citizenship premise is a somewhat popular idea

idk if that means with Trump or what

I think a lot of Canadians would take the ability to freely go to the US no strings attatched if it meant literally nothing else

yes

it would be pitched that way too, given how cloesly connected the two countries are, how many families span the border and how much the border economies are tied with their direct neighbours

I also think a good number of people from the US (mainly nothern US states who might have a reason to) would probably take the reverse as well, if you sold it to them

100%

Free movement is literally just benificial, hence why the EU did it

isn't this what passport cards are for?

the 10 years thing is the weak part rn, they're trying to figure out how to get real Canadians, and exclude the Chinese

The downsides being anyone can get in a truck and drive across the border and steal shit then flee back to Poland

Europeans hate driving Dane

it's a self solving problem

Dude you do not even need multiple countries for that dane

This group from Toronto keeps driving up to kitchener, smashing and grabbing jewlery at the mall, then fleeing

its happened like 4 times and they are still trying to get the fuckers

it's surprisingly common in the US now too, where police in many states aren't leaving their jurisdiction

because of how different local laws are

so you can just flee county lines, and be free

"Trump want's to have a big Canadian announcement on July 4th this year" 90% - Economic partnership announcement, vague noncommittal normal stuff 10% - major citizenship and/or monetary supply move 0.1% - Albertan referendum

2nd one means if they can't figure out a citizenship idea, it'll just be a voluntary money swap offer, at rates above public ones

which would trash the CAD even further

and yes, it's this year July 4th, not next year for the 250th birthday

for the 250th he mass arrests all the money launderers in congress

Thats all of them

so yes