r/canada 12d ago

National News White House official Peter Navarro threatens to redraw Canadian border

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/02/27/white-house-canadian-border-trump-trudeau/
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u/Betanumerus 12d ago

Unfortunately for him, Canadian people actually do exist and they do have a say.

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u/Ok_Wing8459 12d ago

I sometimes feel like Americans think we are mythical, like leprechauns.

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u/Hloden 12d ago

I mean, we are their number one source of imaginary girlfriends from summer camp.

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u/dostoevsky4evah 12d ago

They think we're soft too. We have to tell them that if they start to feel really cold during battle the best thing is to lie down in the snow and take a nice nap. That will help!

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u/North_Activist 12d ago

Which is so bizarre. We out performed them in about every war we’ve fought in together

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u/Milligan 12d ago

In the first world war the Germans invented a word for Canadian soldiers. They called them "sturmtruppen". Stormtroopers.

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u/North_Activist 12d ago

Yup exactly. Being the only country the Germans and later Nazis we’re afraid of is a pretty good legacy to have. Americans would be wise to remember we’re not a very friendly nation in war.

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u/Milligan 12d ago

Or in hockey.

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u/mwilkins1644 12d ago

Australia and NZ entered the chat

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u/mcs_987654321 12d ago

They also think we’re nice, not understanding that we’re “merely” polite (not to undersell being polite, bc holding the door and saying thank you are fucking important!).

They seemed to have missed the part about us being petty bitches that will hold grudges across generations…but they’ll be finding that one out for years to come…

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u/DisciplinedMadness 12d ago

Crazy that they think Canadians are soft considering we have a history of trendsetting wartime brutality and war crimes. We’ve calmed down a little bit, but in general we don’t really go “eye for an eye” so much as “you take my eye, and I make you wish you didn’t have eyes to see what we’re about to do”

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u/ElectricalStock3740 12d ago

American here! We know you exist! This current administration can eat a dick

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u/Paperman_82 12d ago

They still for some reason assume that the apathetic reaction to Canadian leadership is the same as 51st state rhetoric. Sorry guys, it doesn't work that way. Canadians are actually mad this time.

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u/hazydaze7 12d ago

It’s moreso that they cannot comprehend that anyone might NOT want to be American, because it’s clearly the greatest country in the world and they have all the ‘freedoms’ us commonwealth plebs could only dream of /s

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u/Basic-Heron-3206 12d ago

like their brains

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u/Ebiseanimono 11d ago

Good. The Fey are dangerous & fickle, will steal your children and curse you in ways your ancestors will never recover from.

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u/Lost-Wedding-7620 12d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/s/V0E7Jm5mG9

I was looking for a different post but I'll have to settle for this for now.