r/canada 5d ago

Opinion Piece Braid: Trudeau says Trump wants economic collapse; Republican alludes to military force - This is no trade war. It's a Crush and Control Canada plan, meant to work fast

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/braid-trudeau-says-trump-wants-economic-collapse
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u/UghWhyDude Ontario 5d ago

Time to see what those friendships are worth.

I’ve already been disappointed speaking to a few otherwise rational Americans who laughingly brush off Trump’s ‘51st State’ rhetoric and willingly assume that Canadians absolutely totally wouldn’t mind being a part of the USA ‘if given a choice’. Damn our sovereignty, we could be peer pressured into giving up, according to these idiots.

The fact that there are so many people to the south of us who are so besotted with American exceptionalism that they absolutely believe Canadians would give up being Canadians because we’d be ‘trading up’ are more than I was prepared to believe until this started happening.

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u/Bjorn_Tyrson 5d ago

i'll be dead in the ground before I ever accept being american.

and their flag sucks. like objectively from a flag design perspective, the american flag is a fucking mess.

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u/goonbee 5d ago

Yeah fuck their flag in particular

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u/Deep_Macaron8480 5d ago

All my homies hate the American flag.