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[–] Moc@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I for one welcome our future Canadian overlords

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Dump money into military spending, border control, and refugee assistance.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

There is no amount of military spending that could protect Canada from the US. The military gap is obscene.

It makes no sense to ratchet up military spending

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

The US military itself, yeah probably not...But a group of renegade Americans headed North we might be able to do something about.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I meant in the context of self defense because it cannot rely on the US, not that the US would attempt some kind of attack on Canada.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Just a reminder that political affiliation is not a protected class and can be discriminated against with impunity.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

University of Ottawa national-security professor Thomas Juneau said many Canadians might find it far-fetched to talk about Washington falling drastically out of step with Canada.

Let's also pay some attention to the fact that Canada may be about to fall drastically in step with the US Republicans at the next election.

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[–] tabularasa@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This article is from August 17th. Is there a plan or not?

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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Uh? How bad does it have to get? We're already there.

[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 year ago

Given the absolute state of incompetence of the LPC leadership I don't think we have to worry since it seems exceptionally likely that Canada will also be going right. No clue as to the level of authoritarianism involved, I think the CPC will just keep up the LPC's pro-corporation anti-people agenda.

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