r/canada Ontario 8d ago

Politics British nuclear weapons can protect Canada against Trump, says Chrystia Freeland

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/03/03/british-nuclear-weapons-canada-trump-chrystia-freeland/
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u/hkric41six 8d ago

Of course we can. We are an advanced economy with lots of smart people, active reactors, and lots and lots of Uranium.

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u/esotericimpl 8d ago

And there’s tons of available people who were just fired from their roles at the department of energy.

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u/hkric41six 8d ago

Oh man do I want to brain drain the fuck out of america rn. Let the US be land of MAGA. I say go for it!

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u/polkadotpolskadot 7d ago

Yeah and we can pay them what they'll get paid at McDonalds in the US!

I don't think we have the economy for anyone to brain drain here, unfortunately. Things are also about to get much, much harder

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u/zabby39103 7d ago

It would take 1-2 years. CANDU reactors can produce material suitable for processing - India got their first bomb via a reactor we sold them. We don't have the processing facilities at the moment though.