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Finally, The End Of Canada
FrontPageMag.com ^ | June 7, 2001 | Jamie Glazov

Posted on 05/09/2004 5:42:13 PM PDT by SamAdams76

ALMOST HALF of Canadians believe it is highly likely Canada will join the United States within ten years. That’s what an opinion poll, released on June 3 (2001) by EKOS Research Associates, a Canadian polling and research firm, tells us.

This isn’t really big news. It simply means that almost half of Canadians are willing to reconcile themselves with reality. Let’s face it: globalization is the way of the future. It can’t be stopped. That means that Canada’s destiny – being absorbed into the American empire -- is much closer than we think. As a Canadian, I can hardly wait.

I must admit: the supremacy of globalization and free trade fills me with an intoxicating sense of glee. After all, the victory of unrestrained international capitalism translates into market forces running unhindered in Canada, which, in turn, translates into a diminishment of Canadian "sovereignty" – that absurd joke that has imposed socialized health care, federal funding of bilingualism and multi-culturalism, and other intellectually-bankrupt policies, onto heavily-burdened Canadian taxpayers. Canadian governments will finally have to listen to the market, rather than to leftwing ideologues and elites, and shed the last remnants of the Canadian welfare state. And as multinational corporations gain power, and national barriers come tumbling down, the forces of deregulation and privatization will triumph, leaving Canadian socialism where it belongs – on the ash heap of history.

These developments will yield less government spending and low taxes, which will encourage stimulated savings and investment in the economy, which will mean more economic growth. More growth, meanwhile, will foster new jobs, products and factories, which, in turn, will lead to a better redistribution of wealth, as well as an increase in the standard of living for most Canadian citizens. And as government regulation will almost totally disappear, Canada will lose any ability to control incoming foreign investment. In this way, it will lose its ability to control its own economy – which is good. The pull to the south will become unstoppable.

The benefits of these developments will feed off of themselves. Just think about it: the Canadian government will no longer have an excuse to fund bilingualism, since the market, which reveals the preferences of people better than any government program can, will expose how economically irrational and unpopular it is. Canadian taxpayers will save millions of dollars. But it gets better: with the dismantling of official bilingualism, Quebec will finally come to terms with what it should have come to terms with long ago: it has no place in Canada. The good news, therefore, is that Quebec will finally separate. And good riddance.

And then, the good news really starts: with French Canada finally gone, English Canada will be blessed with losing its last pretence of possessing any unique characteristics whatsoever. With Quebec gone, English Canadians will no longer be able to say, "We’re not like those Americans," without someone else rejoining: "Oh? And how is that?" And there will be no answer, because there will be nothing to say. Canadian nationalists will finally have to admit the bitter truth: that Canadians are Americans in everything but name. The charade of how "we are different" will come to its long-awaited conclusion.

Finally Canadians will be able to free themselves from trying to be patriotic by insulting Americans. In this way, they will stop negatively stereotyping Americans -- a behavior which has always manifested a dark and ugly strain of hatred in the Canadian psyche. It is simply hilarious, in the most tragic sense, how Canadian nationalists have always prided themselves on their politically-correct tolerance and "multi-culturalism," while they have engaged in anti-Americanism -- a disposition, as sociologist Paul Hollander has demonstrated, that is directly related with racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism. In Canada, of course, it has always been legitimate to be a bigot, as long as it has involved hating Americans. We will soon be able to say goodbye to that pathological double-standard.

We will also be able to say goodbye to the endless smug complaining that many Canadians engage in about how "stupid" Americans are – since Americans do not know anything about us. The bottom line is that Americans in Los Angeles and New York City do not need to know anything about Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, nor about anything else Canadian. That’s because, no matter how much the truth hurts, it is still the truth: Canada is boring – always has been and always will be. Whenever I hear a Canadian mocking American ignorance about Canada, I always can’t help picturing some deadbeat loser and unaccomplished writer who keeps all of his works hidden in his desk, and has never published anything, but simultaneously sneers at the world for having never heard his name.

Just imagine all of the pain that we will spare ourselves once we join the United States. We will no longer have to victimize ourselves with those torturous and emotionally-excruciating conversations about Margaret Atwood and Pierre Berton, in which Canadian nationalists show their anti-American stripes by discussing novels that no human being outside of Canada has ever heard of, nor would ever read under sane circumstances. The celebration of mediocrity for the sake of defining ourselves as being "different" from "those Americans" will finally end.

Thus, with the end of Canada, Canadians will finally reconcile themselves to the fact that they have no separate identity, and that the identity that they think they have has actually been defined in negative opposition to Americans. We can finally stop telling ourselves who we are not, and start focusing on who we are: Americans. And when we do this, the Providential Godsend will be delivered: Canadians everywhere will be liberated from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, an entity that it takes masochism to tune into, and that wouldn’t survive five minutes if its life depended on the tastes and desires of Canadians themselves. We will finally face basic common sense: culture cannot be created artificially by tax payers’ money, and if there is not enough interest in a country to naturally keep a television or radio station afloat, than that country does not need a television or radio station.

The victory of globalization means the end of Canadian socialism. And the end of Canadian socialism means the end of Canada, because this nation is an artificial structure that is kept intact by nationalist and socialist elites who exploit their own citizens for the sake of keeping themselves in power. It’s time for the unrestrained forces of capitalism to prevail, so that we can finally abandon our pathetic fantasy of having a unique culture, let alone a unique anything. It’s time to become who we always were: Americans. Long live globalization


TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: canuckistan; globalization; jamieglazov
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To: CWOJackson
"...give us Vancouver (nice city by all accounts--I've never been there)."

You really must visit, you will quickly change your mind. Think Seattle or San Francisco, only MORE liberal.

I remember a lot of Hong Kong multi-millionaires relocating there pre-Chicomm takeover of HK. Must've allowed that fact cloud my appraisal of the situation. Okay, we'll take most of BC, and leave Vancouver as a free city (like Danzig between the first and second world wars). Then the land bridge to Alaska is still intact.

41 posted on 05/09/2004 6:22:01 PM PDT by Land_of_Lincoln_John (http://www.bluestatesforbush.com)
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To: SamAdams76
No way Republicans would permit Canada to join the United States; the GOP would never control anything again. First of all, Canada sans Quebec would mean at least 18 Senators, all Democrats but four of them at best (Alberta would send two Pubbies and Saskatchewan/Manitoba perhaps one each). That assumes Yukon, Northwest, and Nunavut would remain territories and not become states as well (a safe assumption).

Moreover, the Canadian provinces minus Quebec and the Territories would receive an apportionment of about 34 Representatives, and you could expect only about 6-9 of those to be GOP. If Quebec joined too that'd be another two Democrat Senators and another 10 Democrat Representatives...
42 posted on 05/09/2004 6:28:58 PM PDT by AntiGuv (When the countdown hits zero - something's gonna happen..)
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To: SamAdams76
"...........highly likely Canada will join the United States within ten years."

When pigs can fly!
43 posted on 05/09/2004 6:30:21 PM PDT by Gator113
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To: SamAdams76
Since I'm curious now, though, I'll do a theoretical reapportionment of how the Congress apportionment would look had Canada joined before the 2000 Census. Lemme go track down the apportionment formula. Be back in a while!
44 posted on 05/09/2004 6:30:58 PM PDT by AntiGuv (When the countdown hits zero - something's gonna happen..)
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To: SamAdams76
What an offal wagon load of silly assed assumptions.
I couldn't tell if the author was bragging or complaining for the first several paragraphs. Nonsense fore and aft.
45 posted on 05/09/2004 6:32:32 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
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To: SamAdams76
We don't want Quebec, it is French and would not want to be part of the US. We don't want Ontario or British Columbia; they are neocommunists who are anti-American and would be worse than making Palestine part of America. We don't want any "first nations," they are simply Indians who the neocommunists have decreed are equals.

The main, central territories might be OK after some cultural training. But, we want nothing that will be to the left of, say, Massachusetts or Northern California. And, lets secure that border to keep as many terrorists out as possible even though it may already be way too late!

46 posted on 05/09/2004 6:32:58 PM PDT by Tacis (,)
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To: Mr. Mojo
If they come in as one state they'd only get two senators out of it.
47 posted on 05/09/2004 6:33:08 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
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To: SamAdams76
This article is nonsense. English Canadians do not say, "We're not like those Americans." They say, "We're not like those Americans, eh?"

I really doubt that anything like this will happen in the foreseeable future. I remember reading something along these lines when I was a kid. I don't think we're any closer now.

Republicans would be crazy to agree to Canada joining the U.S. Trading away a few ultra-liberal states in return for Alberta and British Columbia, on the other hand, might not be such a bad idea.

48 posted on 05/09/2004 6:42:10 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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If Quebec (and Ontario, for they would go too) does withdraw from the Canadian Union to join the Republic of France -- which is what they keep voting, and keep getting closer, to do -- the other Canadian Provinces will not have much of a choice but to petition the USA for statehood status. Most of the Canadian federal infastructure is located within the French speaking provinces, along with 85% of their most radically liberal, leftist, bigoted, Frenchified anti-English population. There is no way that the remaining English-Canadians could continue to function independently without the tax base, the federal infastructure, and the people-power of Quebec and Ontario. The English Canadians have tremendous land and raw material assets, true, but they have limited voice and people-power. There is no way that their health-care and social security system could continue to function, nor could their police and defense forces, apart from the man, material, and managerial input from Quebec and Ontario.

In short, much of what the USA would pick up would be the sparcely populated western provinces and territories, and of course Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in the east. The GREATEST windfall would be the mineral and oil RICH west ... something that the United States could GREATLY profit from annexing. We must also remember that adding 12 or so million English-speaking Canadians to our social security and medicare system would not be as difficult as some suspect; after all, in addition to their natural resources we would also be adding a fairly wealthy tax base that is USED to being taxed MUCH more than they would be under us. In short, they would pay for themselves as well as grealty enrich the rest of us with their resources.

As for the liberal character of such places an Vancouver ... true, they have a liberal population. However, released from the stranglehold of the rules and regulations of the French Canadian majority I would bet they are somewhat less liberal than we realize. I have friends in Alberta who tell me that, if given a choice, they certainly would NOT choose to vote Democrat. Hence, it is a mistake to just assume that we would be adding an additional 8 million voting-age liberals to the Democrat base.
49 posted on 05/09/2004 6:44:49 PM PDT by TexasGreg
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To: SamAdams76
nope don't want them either.
50 posted on 05/09/2004 6:45:06 PM PDT by bilhosty
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To: SamAdams76
Well, let "Canada" join, but most the Canadians have to go back to Europe, or India, or wherever it is they or their ancestors came from.

They have a bad attitude and will tend to vote for Democrats ~ in fact, the very worst sort of Democrats!

We can't have that.

51 posted on 05/09/2004 6:46:43 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: CWOJackson
Give the area around Quebec to the Frogs; the rest is good land and nice folks living on it, too. Nice, after they drop their socialism, that is.

They would make far better citizens than what is flooding across the border from Mexico.
52 posted on 05/09/2004 6:47:41 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon liberty, it is essential to examine principles - -)
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
Nah...I lived in Vancouver for 18 months.....nice place to VISIT....but you wouldn't want them as your co-citizens. Blatantly socialist.....doctors offices closed on Friday for lack of money, while we were there. Great food, though. Alberta, however, is THE MOST conservative of all of Canada. NOW, that would be worth having....and maybe even Saskatchewan....there's only a million people there...I lived there for 18 months too....wide open spaces....but lots of problems with indigents....and has 3 prisons.
53 posted on 05/09/2004 6:48:29 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Tagging you.....)
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To: SamAdams76
The funniest thing about this article is that Canadians take it for granted that they could become part of the United States. They think we in the US really want them as part of our country.

Canadian ruling elite would have to really take a good look at our Constitution......most would turn tail and run. No, Canadians need their own little revolution before they are ready to become and appreciate what it means to be a true American. The tyrants in their midst are the socialists......tar-and-feather them...fight them like the minutemen fought the British...utterly humiliate them and then, and only then will they truly understand what our constitution means and what it means to be an American.

The true crisis for Canada is not what is described in this article......it's going to be when they realize that they aren't wanted. That they aren't the wonderful people that they think they are just because the CBC tells them so, and that they certainly don't have the mettle to be Americans.

If anything happens it'll be a population migration of those individuals who do have that mettle moving here, blending in, and becoming Americans. The rest will have to stay on that sad reservation called Canada, griping and complaining why someone isn't paying their bills.......Funnier still, is that Americans still won't care.
54 posted on 05/09/2004 6:49:05 PM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: SamAdams76
Personally, I think it is inevitable that most, if not all, of Canada will ultimately join the United States.

I was just talking about that with one of my friends today, and we came to a pretty similar conclusion. Québec really should separate from Canada; it would help level out the balance of power in the Western Hemisphere and would sever the last illusions of multiculturalism. While I personally happen to like French culture (minus the lack of baths) and language, let's face it: English and French are rival cultures and languages. They have been ever since France shook off English control in the Middle Ages. While Anglophone nations may be able to make informal political alliances with Francophone nations, they should always be kept separate from each other for the good of their people.

Inevitably, then, Québec--while technically politically united with the rest of Canada--has always felt somewhat alienated, which explains the Bloc. What's more, I actually think that their illusion of having united two rival cultures under one banner is what has fooled those people into thinking that they a "multicultural society" would actually work. It would explain their lax immigration and border laws--and of course, they're about to become Canuckstan for it (stand for nothing, fall for everything).

So let's say Québec does end up a sovereign nation. I could see Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia joining the United States fairly quickly. But Ontario, New Brunswick, P.E.I., Nova Scotia, et. al. might be more reluctant to join--happily, in my view, as Eastern English Canada seems to be the Liberal stronghold.

55 posted on 05/09/2004 6:49:34 PM PDT by MegaSilver (Training a child in red diapers is the cruelest and most unusual form of abuse.)
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To: SamAdams76
This article is absolute garbage. There is no way that Canadians want or have wanted, in any way, shape or form, to join the US. This will not change in 7 years or 70 years.


56 posted on 05/09/2004 6:50:11 PM PDT by plushaye
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To: SamAdams76
Great, that's all we need, if we take in Canada, to have THREE official languages: English, Spanish and French.
57 posted on 05/09/2004 6:51:30 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: bilhosty
The writer of the "Canada" article fails to understand that globalization IS socialism.
58 posted on 05/09/2004 6:52:44 PM PDT by BrucefromMtVernon
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
"Mexico will absorb California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas."

ROFLMAO!!!

Lots of luck selling that to President Bush!

How 'bout this - we take Baha California and Mexico gets back her citizens. Especially all those Azitlan nutters. :)

Mexico has had Baha all this time and the only time anything ever gets done there is when an American firm or individual does it.

There is a theological reason for all of Mexico's lethargy - they believe Jesus told them to name their children after him and not to do anything until he returned.
59 posted on 05/09/2004 6:53:04 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon liberty, it is essential to examine principles - -)
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To: All; SamAdams76
Check this site out:

http://www.unitednorthamerica.org


It outlines how each individual provice would get to vote to become a state of the USA. Thus Quebec could keep out if the french canadians don't anger the english speaking population.

Given the fact that Canada is Militarily defensless and taxing their citizens into poverty, it will be a vote of escaping the Canadian Tax man.
60 posted on 05/09/2004 6:54:53 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (Vote!)
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