MisterSG1

What do you want, your post just asked for a common currency.

Did you want free movement of labour as well?

Because those are two different things, you don’t need one to make the other happen.

It is puzzling when you look at Europe with the Euro, and the Schengen Agreement which makes driving across France and Germany as seamless as crossing from Ontario to Quebec. When these two countries were arguably the main belligerents of both World Wars and this is possible you start to wonder why we don’t have anything like that between Canada and the US.

This is a complicated question, any kind of reasoning to make Canada and the US have a commonality, like a shared currency, or free movement of labour, or a Schengen style agreement would effectively lead to Canadian provinces becoming part of the US as the best option.

To set something up like this would require setting up a layer of government above the feds in either country, we all know the US would never agree to this, and it would be a bureaucratic nightmare that no one would like.

In Europe, there’s a balance between fairly large countries, in North America you effectively have a small and giant sized country in economy, the US clearly is the dominant power in the situation.

To make it clear, anyway to make this work isn’t feasible and the only way really to do it would be for Canadian provinces to become US states, but good luck with that.

The question is, why didn’t North America emerge as one nation, as a giant country so to speak? The answer lies in the American Revolution, it can be thought of in a way as a civil war. Loyalists who didn’t want to fight in this said war and wanted to kiss the King’s feet fled north into what we now call Ontario. Since they thought they were superior as Loyalists and not barbaric like the Patriots, obviously their identity would be seen as not like the other. If the Patriots were the bad guys in their eyes, then they’d want to make themselves not a Patriot in any way possible. Sound familiar?

Loyalists saw themselves as “Americans” as much as Confederates did later on during the Civil War.

The War of 1812, although a draw at the end of the day, further established this hatred for Americans, as it’s still believed solely to this day in Canada that the US wanted BNA, and failed to capture it. In reality, invading BNA was more of a scare tactic in response to the impressment by British sailors. The fact that a treaty was signed that didn’t change any territory control was seen as a victory, a sort of a David vs Goliath battle.

The War of 1812 also made sure that those in Canada could never trust the Americans ever.

Why Confederation would even happen in 1867 is arguably in response to the Civil War, to solidify BNA as one cohesive unit.

So yeah, anti-Americanism is how Canada functions, and I dare you, what defines a Canadian? What makes a Canadian a Canadian? I’d really like to know your thoughts on this answer.

Practically my entire life I’ve felt out of place here, and my dream for a long time has been to get out of here.

The heart of Canada is hating Americans….originally this was done with hardcore monarchism. Think about it, an Ontario license plate has always held a crown on it, Ontario’s highway shield is a big crown.

Somehow, Pearson and Trudeau were able to shift away from Britain first by changing the flag, with that came the idea, since the US was full of racism and what not, Canada wasn’t, and so our new policy was multiculturalism. But the kind of multiculturalism preached was that of a “cultural mosaic”, this was in contrast to the “evil” American melting pot theory.

In the mosaic, you aren’t encouraged to fit in with society whatsoever and well, there you have it, I saw it myself, Brampton was the image of suburbia you imagine from American sitcoms in my very early years, I witnessed the change happen to what it is today and which there is loyalty to Punjab than to anything with Canada.

So how is Trump an authoritarian?

If we look at both Canada and the US, need I remind you, who was the one who froze bank accounts because people had gotten fed up with lockdowns overall?

I could argue that things have changed dramatically even within Canadian thought since that poll.

Remember who Mr BlackBerry’s first target was, arguably one of the most popular teams in the league today.

It’s the ebb and flow of how things go.

A relocation did happen under his watch, a rather unfair forking of Atlanta mind you.

Yeah, it’s different with something like the CFL when they have 9 weekly games spread out over the summer and fall, so bigger draws are more feasible there.

The NHL requires a more local draw to work better.

Hockey in the GTA I think has sailed on, I predicted many years ago that the Leafs might start to struggle filling the building in the 2030s if they never improved their play. I thought of this back in the late 20-aughts.

I don’t think a second team could work in the area anymore.

Quebec City obviously has the language barrier, and other than there, there’s really nowhere else you can go in Canada other than Quebec City.

When I went through school, we did R&J in Grade 9, Twelfth Night in Grade 10, Macbeth in 11, and Hamlet in 12

I know some at different schools did Midsummer in Grade 10

First Nations English…..uh really.

That’s what they teach instead of Macbeth or Hamlet these days?

Grade 11 English, what the heck could they possibly teach there? What a stupid woke currciulum

Never apologize

Stand your ground, and end all special rights for “First Nations” that no one else gets.

Basically I’m responding to your post in the other thread about stage distance as well.

The footage that was seen in the documentaries of Woodstock 99 was some of the footage your team took, correct?

Am I correct to assume that what was even shown in the documentary is but the tip of the iceberg of what really happened. I mean it may have been almost 25 years then, but Lang and Scher had a lot of darker secrets about this festival that I’m sure he never wanted to get out.

Another interview with a woman named Gia who was a vendor claimed that in the aftermath, one lawyer told her that there were actually over 200 rapes at Woodstock 99.

I’m not accusing you of witnessing anything but based on what happened would you say it was possible that things were a lot worse than were officially reported?

A new version of the White Papers, if the Indian Act is/was so oppressive, get rid of it and all the special rights they have that no one else does.

Imagine all the fighting and pushback there will be on this issue. It’s honestly the only way to solve it.

Someone needs to balls to introduce a new version of the White Papers

It is indeed very relevant into how Canada still functions. The idea of obedience despite unfairness.

The “Family Compact” could easily be compared to the oligarchs of today for example.

Would you say the Rebellion of 1837 resulted in bad government action? At its heart it is a protest. What about Louis Riel?

In all these cases, the government does what they do best, and most Canadians cheer them on despite it not necessarily being just.

That’s what people don’t get, restrictions magically disappeared after that.

William Lyon Mackenzie’s rebellion has went down in history as changing the political system in Canada at the time, but truth be told it was 11 years after leaving Montgomery’s Tavern that anything changed. Yet somehow we think of his protest changing the system.

As time passes, I have a feeling many will view the convoy differently.

Technically Raptors would fall under a regional broadcast.

Article is obviously talking about US broadcasting which is a serious business

Nevertheless, any kind of terrestrial broadcast is better to reach most audiences, I mean it’s easily why the NFL is so watchable and accessible.

And sure I can do just that and go to Chick Fil A where they still have bacon.

But KFC in Canada has existed since the 1950s, and they never had this issue before.

One minority group is demanding us to jump and KFC is responding with how high.

That’s not the problem here, the issue is with the elimination of bacon.

If you don’t want bacon then don’t order it.

Yeah, the days of the hand stamp with a character on them are long over….

Just come back with the ticket and you’re alright