U.S. Annexing Canada (split fm Liberal Minority thread)

[dimsum]

Stronger military, lower taxes, stronger dollar, real leadership, less handouts, etc etc. Fucking horrific!

Medical bankruptcy! So great!

I am a little surprised that you called the current POTUS “real leadership”. I wasn’t expecting that.

Good thing very few give a damn about your views.

This is a discussion forum. I am under no aspirations that Canadians or whoever at large give a single shit about what I, you, or anyone else here has to say.

I would say the same about your views, but I think we both have shown our biases.

Because in opposition that's his job, and I expect he will face that from his opposition.

So? Were all Opposition leaders like that? It takes two to tango, as they say. Compromise requires compromise, on both sides.

Just stop, he's not trump at all. Pull your pants up your bias is showing mate.

I am not saying that PP is like Trump as personalities go. I am saying that PP’s position is analogous to Trump’s position now, since there is no way the CPC isn’t winning the next election. So the way PP handles things, given his pretty much sure-fire victory (and again, I say words like “pretty much” because “events, dear boy” that @Edward Campbell mentioned upthread), can and should be indicative of how he will govern as the next PM.

 

[Remius]

Who’s unhappy? I’m not. I for one will welcome our new American overlords.

i have no doubt you will make an excellent collaborator.

 

[dimsum]

i have no doubt you will make an excellent collaborator.

Jesus. Even I didn’t use that term.

furiously looks through thesaurus

 

[dimsum]

Who’s unhappy? I’m not. I for one will welcome our new American overlords.

Especially when the US military takes over the Canadian military, punts all of us out of jobs, refuses us Tricare because we’re not US military or US veterans, no other medical insurance accepts us because of “pre-existing conditions”, and we get to see how great it is being in the US medical system.

 

[Remius]

I recall in another thread, one of the longer serving, and less controversial, members of this forum articulated several examples of professionals they knew personally that had left Canada for the US... I doubt it was for lack of patriotism... but rather opportunity and pragmatism. This is not good for our country.

Not everyone leaving is a loss. And yes not everyone leaves does so from a lack of patriotism. Quirky though certainly lacks it based on his posting history.

Canada, and people like you, should be careful what you wish for. People will only "suck it up" for so long.

It isn’t a wish. I’d rather have people that want to be here.

I can agree though we should be setting the conditions for that though.

 

[Halifax Tar]

So? Were all Opposition leaders like that? It takes two to tango, as they say. Compromise requires compromise, on both sides.

Yes. Thats their job.

I am not saying that PP is like Trump as personalities go. I am saying that PP’s position is analogous to Trump’s position now, since there is no way the CPC isn’t winning the next election. So the way PP handles things, given his pretty much sure-fire victory (and again, I say words like “pretty much” because “events, dear boy” that @Edward Campbell mentioned upthread), can and should be indicative of how he will govern as the next PM.

I hope he governs in a way that puts Canada first, as he has said he would. I want a proud Canadian at the helm.

 

[Quirky]

Medical bankruptcy! So great!

Our current system! So great!

Oh yeah another wonderful thing - no more quebec french as an official language! Punt that useless drivel.

 

[Quirky]

Donald Trump says Canada becoming 51st U.S. state is 'a great idea.' Jean Charest calls the comment a 'wake-up call'

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is taking aim at Canada once more, saying it would be 'a great idea' to make it America's ‘51st state.'

www.ctvnews.ca

wake-up call indeed.

 

[dimsum]

Our current system! So great!

Oh yeah another wonderful thing - no more quebec french as an official language! Punt that useless drivel.

When was the last time you knew someone who went bankrupt because of life-threatening medical issues in Canada?

 

[Jarnhamar]

Our current system! So great!

Not if you're in a hurry.

Woman's right leg amputated after waiting 8 days for bed at Winnipeg's HSC to treat open wound​

I think it's telling when one leader is getting tougher on crime and making it easier for citizens to defend themselves meanwhile the other leader is championing the opposite.

 

[Remius]

Our current system! So great!

Oh yeah another wonderful thing - no more quebec french as an official language! Punt that useless drivel.

And there it is.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Not if you're in a hurry.

Woman's right leg amputated after waiting 8 days for bed at Winnipeg's HSC to treat open wound​

I think it's telling when one leader is getting tougher on crime and making it easier for citizens to defend themselves meanwhile the other leader is championing the opposite.

I'd like to know how man Canadians go to the US for medical procedures VS how many Yanks come to Canada.

 

[Quirky]

When was the last time you knew someone who went bankrupt because of life-threatening medical issues in Canada?

No they just die in ER rooms bleeding to death while addicts take up beds receiving drugs paid by tax paying Canadians. Or they'll die waiting for treatments and access to care. Great system.

 

[QV]

No they just die in ER rooms bleeding to death while addicts take up beds receiving drugs paid by tax paying Canadians. Or they'll die waiting for treatments and access to care. Great system.

Yeah but Canada has the MAID option! See how lucky we are?

 

[QV]

I'd like to know how man Canadians go to the US for medical procedures VS how many Yanks come to Canada.

I'm guess it is all one-way.

 

[JLB50]

Our current system! So great!

Oh yeah another wonderful thing - no more quebec french as an official language! Punt that useless drivel.

If you’re talking about the U.S. medical system then, yes, it is great…that is if you are rich or work for the U.S. government. I grew up in the midwest U.S. and experienced first hand the greed, corruption and bureaucracy of their HMO system. My sister lost her job and her medical coverage just as she found out she had terminal cancer. My father who was enrolled in an HMO incurred several hundred thousand dollars in bills as a result of his heart operation. What my relatives went through I wouldn’t want my worst enemy to experience. Yes, the Canadian system isn’t what it used to be but I’ll take what we have here over what the U.S. has any day. Even Sarah Palin, when she was running as John McCain’s VP candidate, used to diss the Canadian system as socialist and inferior until she confessed to a reporter that her own relatives frequently would cross the border and use our system because they didn’t like what they had. Finally, my late uncle was a doctor (General Practice) in Missouri and said he only wished that the medical system there was like what we have here.

 

[ArmyRick]

Nothing wrong with that line of thought. Advocating the annexation of the country is next level.

I won't advocate for annexation of Canada ever. However, we need a strong stance if we are going to squire off with USA economically and security wise. This bozo prime minister aint that cat.

 

[Remius]

I won't advocate for annexation of Canada ever. However, we need a strong stance if we are going to squire off with USA economically and security wise. This bozo prime minister aint that cat.

Nothing I said here pointed to him being the guy either.

 

[ArmyRick]

Side note and personal experience. My wife got rear ended by a hit and run driver in 2004. It screwed her up with brain injury for 4 years. There was an unusual medical procedure to help with her unique injury. NOT covered by OHIP or any Canadian plan. In Canada it was going to cost us around $25,000. In the USA, out of pocket, same procedure (FDA approved) $5500 USD. Guess what? I was more than willing to go across the border and rack up the credit card for that.

 

[ArmyRick]

Nothing I said here pointed to him being the guy either.

Your misreading me. I think.