The New Entitlement
Posted on Sunday, July 10 at 10:13 by robertjb
In 1965 Canadian philosopher George Grant published Lament for a Nation. He suggested there will come a time when “the government of the United States has to resist the strong desire of English-speaking Canadians to be annexed.” Grant is quite right. There will come a tipping point where so much sovereignty has been abdicated, with American hegemony so pervasive and the feelings of disenfranchisement so strong, that there will undoubtedly be a proactive movement for annexation. It also follows that the US will resist; as why should it bother with formal annexation when it has a totally benign and submissive northern neighbour at its beck and call?
As our political and economic elites hand over our sovereignty-- effectively foreclosing our citizenship--it is only natural that we should adopt a replacement and become de facto Americans. So in fact “anti-Americanism” does not exist; it is merely we Canadians transferring our allegiance. Instead of directing our scorn at Ottawa it is slipping south and is increasingly directed at Washington.
The former American ambassador to Canada, Paul Cellucci, was a blunt and outspoken critic--with a boldly patronizing manner--where Canada was at variance with Washington. Now a new ambassador has arrived in David Wilkins. He has been so gracious as to assure us he is going to learn about the country but also that he will be “aggressive” as necessary.
In turn we should assure him that where we differ we speak only as de facto Americans and therefore expect reciprocity--you might call it intellectual free trade.
With deep integration the tipping point has arrived; we become de facto Americans and wait to see if America will have us.
Robert Billyard
Langley BC
July 8th, 2005
[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on July 10, 2005]
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Formal annexation is actually a much less popular option now than it would have been in the 1980s when the U.S. was at its peak....to join the U.S. the country joining must vote in a referendum and get a two-thirds majority.....it must then get the permission of the U.S. President, Congress and Senate.
Canadians would likely never vote 66% to join the U.S., especially as long as Quebec and Ontario are part of Canada.....so it is a dead issue.
With the U.S. slipping in influence, why join? The only ones who want to are our foreign-owned branch plants....
As long as we are independent on paper, have an educated population and an English and French Canadian majority, and have control of our political system, we can cut bait.
The funny thing is, with the U.S. becoming less stable, the less nationalist recent immigrants who often experienced American aggression back home are actually just as likely or more likely to oppose annexation than the long-time residents in many cases.
It also must be said that we still have a Canadian passport and dollar, whereas Europe has a common dollar and common passport. It is Europe that is more integrated, as after so much nationalist violence (which North American hasn't experienced) they tolerated (but disliked) the E.U., though they never supported it.
Canada is young and nervous of U.S. expansionism and would not so easily tolerate a common dollar or passport. We'll be okay if we have a change in politics, which nearly happened with Orchard.....
The reason we have deep integration is because Canadian elites are very globalist. They actually believe a world government will last--even happen formally, and that a borderless, cultureless, multiculutral society is all we will ever be.
If our elites wanted to, they could cut bait, but they are very slow to change their way of thinking.
The U.S. is big, but not insurmountable, and neither is the globalization of goods and people.
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The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfield deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.
- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, The Iraqi Informat
America has no need for us and the world would be a much dangerous place.
We are best to be left alone where we can be superior, be responsible for nothing and pass on Canadian blather.
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Dave Ruston
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The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfield deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.
- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, The Iraqi Informat
Just think too, Quebec is much more culturally socialist than the rest of Canada in some ways. What a wonderful place a separate Quebec would be to live. Even more egalitarianism.
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The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfield deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.
- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, The Iraqi Informat
It's an open question wether it would be better to be
formally integrated into a declining Rome or to hang on
as an impotent , hollowed out satellite, but that falsely
narrows the options, in my view.
We can be more sovereign if we organize and
excersise political will.
Just because the elite in this country seem to have
given up (if they were ever in the game), doesn't mean
the rest of us have to go along.
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"The very fact that the concept "anti-American" can exist exhibits a totalitarian streak that's pretty dramatic." Noam Chomsky
Blinkered, brainwashed, ignorant.
Stupid, stupid canuck.
Meanwhile, the World goes on.
On any case,times weren't as desperate in the Trudeau years and Bob Rae is now a Bilderberger, from what I hear. There's nothing like getting a rebored religion in mid life. Ed.
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<a href="http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/alqeida.htm">http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/alqeida.htm</a><br />
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Guess it's no wonder you are rabidly against everything that Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and America stand for "eh", Ed? They are supportive of the Jewish people's right to live in peace in their own land and support Israel and the Middle East peace process. That DOES seem to run counter to your much favored anti-semetic positions shared with France, Russia, Germany, Canada, Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, "Islamic Jihad", and your beloved Canadian Communist/NDP/CAP affiliates, "eh", Eddie?<br />
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I kind of figured if we waited long enough, you'd eventually out yourself with a wee, little, "slip"..."eh"...<br />
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But very representative of Canada's Liberal/Communist/NDP/CAP membership, so you're not all alone there big boy. You're simply part of the Canuckian crowd. But one little (albeit vocally activist)cog in the Communist Canadien NDP/CAP/LIBERAL anti-semetic, pro AL-Qaeda terrorist wheel...must be why you wish to divert attribution of all the terrorist killings of innocent civilians in the world onto the Jewish people of the world. What have they done to you for you to feel so negatively "aboot" them Eddie? Did a Jewish person succeed in business where you have failed? Did a Jewish person steal your girlfriend? Beat you in some sporting event of years past, perhaps? Did their suffering during the holocaust receive more international sympathy than your communist cause there, Mr. Deakster? Did that bother you?<br />
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Why IS it that all the anti-semetic, pro-Al Qaeda terrorist people flock to Canada's Communist NDP/CAP, and Liberal parties?<br />
I always DID find that very odd...and more than just a LITTLE alarming!