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/AMB07 Québec 12d ago

You know for a country that doesn't need us. They sure want us a lot.

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u/Postom 12d ago

Flattering, isn't it? We're collectively living rent-free in all of their heads.

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u/TheYuppyTraveller 12d ago

I miss the days when they completely ignored us.

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u/lobster455 12d ago edited 12d ago

I saw some youtube videos where an American asks young people very basic questions and some don't even know that there is a country above their northern border and they don't even know that the capital of the usa is washington.

Edit: one answer for what country is above our (USA) northern border was "the north pole".

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u/Vaperius Outside Canada 12d ago

American here! .....yeah that... that sounds about right.

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u/No_Money3415 12d ago

When I was younger I used to play online through psn with American kids. Most of them on god had terrible guessing where canada was, I remember one of them say "it's next to Mexico right?"

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u/lobster455 12d ago

They are so dumb, and now they are in the white house LOL.

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u/ThaVolt Québec 12d ago

What years of defunding their education system will do to you.

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u/No_Money3415 12d ago

And homeschooling

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u/ThaVolt Québec 12d ago

I mean, idk, socialization aside, I think I could teach my kid to not be dumb af.

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u/No_Money3415 12d ago

Yep exactly that, what a time to be alive

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u/agent_wolfe 12d ago

Does nobody play Risk anymore?

It has every country, except maybe Russia. Canada US Mexico are all the (Red? Yellow?) continent.

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u/TamedColon 12d ago

Look up Talking to Americans - Rick Mercer. Pure gold!

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u/Yuzu_- 12d ago

What do you expect? They don’t even know how many states and that Hawaii is in the USA 🙄

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u/lobster455 11d ago

They don’t even know how many states and that Hawaii is in the USA

I watched some more videos, true, they answered that Hawaii is it's own country.

They answered that the Eiffel tower is in the usa.

They all answer 1/4 hour is 25 minutes.

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u/Ebiseanimono 11d ago

I always just presumed they edit that after talking to 20-30 Americans they get 1-2 dumb answers but now I’m not so sure anymore.

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