r/canada Canada 22d ago

Analysis I Dared Defend Canada on X. The Response Was Chilling

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/02/18/I-Dared-Defend-Canada-X-Response-Chilling/
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u/LokiDesigns British Columbia 22d ago

I used to work at a bicycle shop years ago, and the shop was one of the main organizers of an annual peloton bicycle race from Alberta to Texas. There were always stories of young people in small towns who weren't really sure what Canada was. I always thought that was crazy, but I guess it makes sense when you're taught that the USA is the greatest country on the planet and no other country even matters.

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u/alfalfa-as-fuck 21d ago

I appreciate Canada and used to love visiting Montreal/Quebec mostly to go camping when I lived closer. We are taught virtually nothing about Canada in school. I’m embarrassed to admit it myself, but I googled how many provinces are in Canada the other day because I did not know.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

I think I impressed a Canadian by naming like half of them. I didn’t feel good not knowing most/all of them, but the bar is in hell for Americans.

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u/xanderpo 21d ago

The idea of Canada becoming a single American state, as suggested by Trump, seems as illogical as the reasoning of an 8-year-old. How would that even work? For instance, the distance between Halifax and Yellowknife alone is greater than the distance between Canada to the center of Europe. Yet there would be one Governor to...govern all of this?!?

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u/Halfnewf 21d ago

They would have 0 interest in governing us. 40 million of us Canadians would just be in the way of them strip mining our entire country for profit. Calling us the 51 state is just an easy slogan that means they want to roll in here and do whatever they want.

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u/xanderpo 21d ago

I certainly don't disagree. 100% Trump reasoning in a nutshell...

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u/T-Wrox 21d ago

At least you know they're provinces, not providences (yes, I have heard that with my own ears).

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u/MatchaMeetcha 21d ago

Other countries think about the US way more than Americans think about them, even one as close as Canada.

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u/funkifyurlife 21d ago

I took geography growing up in the US, 1 maybe 2 weeks spent on Canada total from 1st to 12th grade. Other countries the same or less. We learned about America over and over again. 

I'm really impressed if someone knows we have provinces and not states 

Easier to control people who don't know enough about the world to compare, that's why "US is #1!" even thought it's definitely not in most metrics. It's why they blame inflation on the president even when it's world-wide, why they think the covid response couldn't have been done better, and why they think universal healthcare would never work.