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I don't think anyone is "butthurt" about this. We are smart enough to see skewed stats and Canada has such a small population compared to the US. How many millionaires in Canada compared to the US?
How much of their assets are held by Americans? And we have far more wealth middle classers than they do. They don't have the sheer numbers of immigrants and others living below the income line that qualifies one for middle class status.
If Canada was a US state, they wouldn't even be our most important state.
While I DO agree with the bolded portion of your post, I still am curious as to whyt sheer numbers of millionaires even matters?. I know that's all that seems to matter to americans, but what about their higher Quality of Life?? Doesn't that mean more?
You tell me, would Texas and Alaska be better off or worse off without the oil revenue?
All I said is the truth, oil funds Canada's social programs. And they control their population much better than the US. Don't believe it? Try immigrating to Canada and see what happens.
They aren't welcoming at all unless you have a specific reason to immigrate there. No place for refugees or the poor. They let the US bear that brunt along with their military security and everything else we do for them.
Lol! Yes, we should let in every Tom, Dick and Hairy because YOU can't control YOUR borders.
Everything else you do for us? Like what?
When you needed to get your astronauts back to earth, you turned to us,
When you needed to have your hostages rescued, you turned to us.
When you needed a place for your planes to land, you turned to us.
When you had natural disasters, you turned to us.
When you wanted backup for your ridiculous and unneccessary wars, you turned to us.
We even built your big cities, bridges and skyscrapers!
What, pray tell, have you done for us beside keep us safe from imaginary foes?
Canada is not now and never has been socialist. What we have here is a regulated free enterprise system. Just because there are social programmes and some progressive laws, that does in no way at all equals "Socialism". What we have is not even 1% SOCIALISM.
Hey, I was agreeing with you.. hence "socialism" in my post is in placed in quotation marks.
The American right-wing has no clue what socialism actually is. Canada is no where near socialist.
Thank you for stating the obvious, but you're missing the point. The British soldiers who burned down the White House were from the UK. They had been sent over from Europe.
Why does it matter where the troops were FROM?
We invaded Canada (which was a BRITISH COLONY) and in return the White House was burned down. The British drew troops from all over their empire. The fact that the specific soldiers were from the British Isles (and a contingent of Black free slaves from the Carribean). It was all people of the same enormous empire and they were ALL British subjects.
If you are going to split hairs, the wingnut comment about "US" defeating Canada in the French & Indian War is not correct either - for a number of reasons: First off "WE" were NOT AMERICANS at the time, Secondly, Id be surprised if anyone on this board had ancestors here in the colonies at the time (they were all subjects of some other king elsewhere). Thirdly, our enemies during the French and Indian War were NOT CANADIANS - they were the FRENCH (and their French-speaking colonists in the New World).
Why does it matter where the troops were FROM?
We invaded Canada (which was a BRITISH COLONY) and in return the White House was burned down. The British drew troops from all over their empire. The fact that the specific soldiers were from the British Isles (and a contingent of Black free slaves from the Carribean). It was all people of the same enormous empire and they were ALL British subjects.
lmao
Using this insane logic, Australians can go around saying they burned down the White House. There'd be no argument from me if the troops that attacked Washington had actually been Canadian colonists.
The fact that everyone in the empire was a British subject is irrelevant.
While I DO agree with the bolded portion of your post, I still am curious as to whyt sheer numbers of millionaires even matters?. I know that's all that seems to matter to americans, but what about their higher Quality of Life?? Doesn't that mean more?
I don't know, there's a lot of places in the US that are pretty nice places to live with much nicer climates.
Lol! Yes, we should let in every Tom, Dick and Hairy because YOU can't control YOUR borders.
Everything else you do for us? Like what?
When you needed to get your astronauts back to earth, you turned to us,
When you needed to have your hostages rescued, you turned to us.
When you needed a place for your planes to land, you turned to us.
When you had natural disasters, you turned to us.
When you wanted backup for your ridiculous and unneccessary wars, you turned to us.
We even built your big cities, bridges and skyscrapers!
What, pray tell, have you done for us beside keep us safe from imaginary foes?
And California has a larger GDP than your whole country. And they don't have any oil!
Canada would be 3rd world without the oil exports.
And they're taking in hundreds of billions of dollars in oil profits.
Along with coal, natural gas, iron oar, potash, gold, diamonds, silver, uranium, molybdenum, phosphates, nickel, copper a host of other precious metals along with timber, fish, and selling electricity to you that puts Athabaska Tar sands crude just a johnny-come-lately to the list of stuff we've got to sell.
Our very first oil well and argued to be the first North American commercial well venture was in a place called Oil Springs Ontario and dates back to 1858
And California has a larger GDP than your whole country. And they don't have any oil!
Canada would be 3rd world without the oil exports.
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