Is Canada the world's next superpower?

"Is Canada the world's next superpower?"

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Only 33,476,688 Million People Live in Canada.

Nominal GDP in US$ = 1,577,040 (Ranking 10th)

They have several cities ranking amongst the best to live worldwide, all that despite those ugly winters they have.

They also rank high in education and health, and the crime rate is low.

Seems like one of the best countries to live if you'd like to raise a family.
 
Kiopa_Matt said:
Power a good portion of your country. Be respectful, or we'll turn the lights off down there, and raise your gas prices to $6/gallon. :P
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^This.

What we supply to you is vastly disproportionate to what you give us. God help you if we ever decide to simply tell you to go fuck yourselves. We could turn most of your nation into a third world country overnight.

Never mistake kindness for weakness.
 
Lexicon said:
What we supply to you is vastly disproportionate to what you give us.
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I especially like how we sell our gas & oil to the US, then the US turns around, and sells it back to us at a high markup. That's just absolutely splendid, isn't it? :) Gas in the US is cheaper than in Canada, and it's our fucken gas.

Lexicon said:
God help you if we ever decide to simply tell you to go fuck yourselves.
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But to do that, we'd kinda need a military, which we don't really have at the moment. And that's good. The US can piss away all their money on military, and we'll happily spend it on neat things like education and health care. It works! :)

PS. For anyone wondering, Canada's military wasn't always tiny. At the end of WWII we had the 3rd largest navy, and 4th largest air force in the entire world. During WWI, 10% of ALL Canadians volunteered for the military, which is the largest % of any voluntarily military force in history. Canada doesn't generally get credit on the world stage, but if you're Canadian, you'll know Canada has played it's fair role in global wars / politics. For example, this thread even somewhat hits a nerve. I have a high school buddies who served in Afghanistan, and we're one of the main forces out there, or at least were.

We unfortunately fucked it up big time, but 20 - 30 years ago, we were THE peacekeeping force in the world. We were large, everyone liked us, and everyone respected us. When Canadian troops rolled through the streets of a country to provide peace, everyone knew that is was ok, because they were Canadian. That was 20 - 30 years ago though, and very unfortunately, we managed to fuck that up big time. At one point though, we were known as the world's peacekeepers. When the UN needed a peacekeeping mission done, they'd first look at Canada to handle it. That era is gone now though.
 
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Nice place to visit, but I'd hate to live there. Too cold for so much of the year, and I like riding my motorcycle without being numb.

and blah blah blah, you'd crush us monetarily, we'd crush you militarily. The term is mutually assured destruction. We'd both lose if we ever dropped allegiance to each other.
 
The problem with Canada, and Canadians, is at some point in the last decade or so, we lost our humbleness. We never had to do any chest thumping or proclaim loudly to the world that we were Great. We left that to the Americans. An American would like to tell you how great he was, while a Canadian would just be a Canadian and you would be free to judge for yourself.

That's changed. Call it Pride, Confidence, Arrogance...whatever adjective you choose. I believe our national identity has taken a turn for the worse. Gloating & Arrogance leads to jealousy and contempt. I prefer things the way they used to be. We didn't have to tell the world how great a country we lived in because they already knew.
 
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Kiopa_Matt said:
Gas in the US is cheaper than in Canada, and it's our fucken gas.
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Canadians pay about 33% in combined taxes on average on the price of fuel, and Americans pay about 11%

Canada gas prices higher than U.S.’ because of higher taxes - Canada - MarketWatch


The US can piss away all their money on military, and we'll happily spend it on neat things like education and health care.
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The US government spends more per person on health care than Canada.
 
btw Canada hates jews

With the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany and the growing trickle of refugees arriving in the country, Canada began to actively restrict Jewish immigration by 1938. Frederick Charles Blair, the country’s top immigration bureaucrat, raised the amount of money immigrants had to possess to come to Canada from $5,000 to $15,000. As well, immigrants had to prove they were farmers, which no Jew coming from central Europe was. Senator Cairine Wilson was one of the country's leading voices against fascism and one of the few non-Jews lobbying for the refugees but she was unable to get Mackenzie King to intervene. He himself shared the anti-Semitism of many Canadians; in his diary he wrote: "We must seek to keep this part of the continent free from unrest and from too great an intermixture of foreign strains of blood." [14] “Through government inaction and Blair’s bureaucratic anti-Semitism, Canada emerged from the war with one of the worst records of Jewish refugee resettlement in the world. Between 1933 and 1939, Canada accepted only 4,000 of the 800,000 Jews who had escaped from Nazi-controlled Europe.”
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trickykid said:
That's changed. Call it Pride, Confidence, Arrogance...whatever adjective you choose. I believe our national identity has taken a turn for the worse. Gloating & Arrogance leads to jealousy and contempt. I prefer things the way they used to be. We didn't have to tell the world how great a country we lived in because they already knew.
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Call it Stephen Harper. This fucker completely changed what it meant to be Canadian. He wants to get involved in all international conflicts now like the U.S. He's pumping money in 2 things: military and corporations.

We used to be loved everywhere. We used to have a passport that was pretty much the equivalent of a U.N. passport. It's slowly changing... for the worse.
 
Canada sells both oil and electricity to the US and is the #1 provider of both.

On the west side the climate is exactly the same as Seattle, even a bit warmer on Vancouver Island. So no we don't all live in Igloos (that really only happens in the northern territories).

We don't care about Military because it's expensive and retarded. With warfare moving more and more in the direction of high tech shit Canada will naturally because more involved in that type of military.

I still like Canada and I would live there again if Costa Rica wasn't so fucking awesome.
 
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