Posted on 08/13/2020 2:53:11 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
As the pandemic continues to sweep the US, Canadians are getting more and more concerned about what American visitors could be bringing with them over the border.
Built directly on the border of Blaine, Washington and Surrey, British Columbia, the Peace Arch is a 67-foot high (20 metres) testament to the close ties between Canada and the US.
Inscribed on one side are the words "May these gates never be closed", a reminder of the nearly 8,891 km (5,525 miles) of un-militarised border that separates the two nations.
For almost 100 years, those words have been heeded - until the coronavirus pandemic effectively shut the border indefinitely.
The closure came into effect on 21 March, and was agreed upon by both governments. After being extended several times over the summer, it remains in effect until 21 August - although most expect it to be extended again.
"I never thought I'd be sitting here mid-August and that border is still closed," says Len Saunders, a dual citizen who lives in Blaine.
"It just seems to be dragging on and on and on with no end in sight."
While the border closure has had significant economic and personal repercussions for the millions of people that live along it or have loved ones on the other side, the vast majority of Canadians want it to stay shut.
A July poll by Ipsos Reid found that eight in ten Canadians wanted the border to stay closed until at least the end of 2020.
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How xenophobic of them.
And stay out of the USA snowbirds
They probably surveyed mainly Toronto voters. These would be the same people who would say shutting down illegal immigrant trafficking routes along the Canada-U.S. border is racist.
But EVERYONE into US.
That’s ok :)
Naturally.
The hypocrisy is ludicrous.
And rampant on the left.
THAT is the real pandemic.
Real Americans are welcome. Snowbirds are largely liberals, the Customs guys have to remember who they work for. It’s well past time for the west to separate. When we do, you’ll all be welcome to come and go and be treated like visiting royalty to show our appreciation for decades of peace through nuclear deterrent. Thanks real Americans.
Add to them the thousands of Canadians who come to the Detroit metro area daily via the tunnel and bridge for their jobs..........
most of those pricks are from Pakistan, India, china and every turd world nation. I DOUBT three percent of those anti Americans are second generation Canadians.
Most of those people are ignorant of our shared heritages and common ideologies.
Simply put, them not Canadians. They think they are Canadians just because they are standing north of the Oregon trail on Canadian soil.
Americans go home!
Canadians looking for better health care? F off and die!
Canadians very often seem to have a very high opinion of themselves. When they elect a black Prime minister or even anything close to the proportions of blacks to the Parliament as in the general population they can speak. Until then STFU.
I bet if you show up in a Hijab and cross illegally you’ll still be welcomed with open arms.
Maybe this is why: The Great Reset:
"This is about a reset of everything, and the United States of America, right now, is in the way of all of it. So they are destabilising our entire country."
"The 2021 Davos Summit is coming up right after Christmas, and for the Great Reset they need President Joe Biden to hand us, the United States, over to them if he wins this election. This is why they are trying so hard to take Donald Trump down."
"Shortly after the speech at the UN that Donald Trump delivered, what do you think happened? The coronavirus was unleashed on the world, and Trump's booming US economy went on life-support. You think that was an accident?"
"The name of the game now is to bring the United States economy to its knees, get it out of the way, so that everyone will want the Great Reset, make the 'new normal' so intolerably abnormal that even you and I maybe in the near future will be begging for the vaccine, so that we'll be driven crazy by that point, begging for whatever else is going to keep us safe according to our jailers and our handlers and our zoo-keepers. You see, that's what they want, that's why they keep using the term 'new normal.'"
"No one...no country will be allowed to opt out. This is what we're facing in November."
"they made a mistake: they tried to get Trump on their side. They invited Donald Trump to Davos, I think a couple of times. But in January, I think when Donald Trump really began to see the Beast that he was up against, he went to Davos, to the World Economic Forum, and he stuck a megafinger in their eye:
'We're committed to conserving the majesty of God's creation and the natural beauty of our world, but to embrace the possibilities of tomorrow we must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse. These alarmists always demand the same thing: absolute power to dominate, transform, and control every aspect of our lives. We will never let radical socials destroy our economy, wreck our country.'
"Two days after Donald Trump gave that speech...George Soros made an emergency intervention, at Davos, once again, warning that 'the 2020 US Election will determine the 'fate of the whole world.''"
"Do you see why there's so much hate for Trump?" "He never will be one of them."
"What can we do to fight back? ..."
"For heaven's sake, go back to church and pray that Trump wins in November."
"That's what the Reset is about. That's what the "Russia Hoax" was all about. That's what the "Impeachment Hoax" was about. You see? For four years they've been trying to stop this man because if he succeeds, if he strengthens America, if he makes it great again, if he brings the economy back--again, the Reset won't happen; the New World Order's going to be set way back. Who knows when they're going to have another Covid Opportunity like this one again?! And they know it. So ask yourself why they hate this man."
"They hate Donald Trump, whose political opponents, by the way, right now are knocking statues of saints to the ground; they're beating up cops; and they're burning flags."
"The choice is simple, friends: Stand with America right now, or fall with the New World Order in the not-so-distant future. There's no other choice."
‘"I have a lot of enemies. This may be the last time you see me for a while. I have a lot of very rich enemies. They're not happy with what I'm doing. But I figure we have one chance to do it. No other president is gonna do what I do."’
Donald Trump
Cleveland, Ohio
August 6, 2020
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/08/a_solution_for_this_weeks_mystery_announcement.html
Stupid Canadians listening to CNN.
There are quite a few Canadians who are very pro-American and pro-constitution and hate Trudeau with a passion of a thousand burning suns. And Quebec, which equals a million burning suns, especially if they are Québécois since everyone knows they hate themselves. I dare say almost half of all Canadians are with us.
Snowbirds, yep met a few while visiting my parents in FL, and found out why most FL residents do NOT like them.
Only New Yorkers were worse.
We don’t like them here either. It’s mutual. There’s a reckoning coming. Maybe after there will be a large shift in behavioral patterns. The west is fed up with the tyranny.
There are MANY of those.
Wonder how the Canuks are doing without all the skilled American technicians going there continuously to install, repair and update so much of their industrial infrastructure...
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