At the end of the day Canada is a country of 40 million people sitting against the world’s largest economic, military and (probably) cultural superpower. If they really want to take over Canada or inflict economic pain until we decide to join them, they can. Maybe this was inevitable, Trump or not, over the long term. Does the EU benefit from being a larger regional superpower? Do the people there benefit? Did England harm itself by going independent of the EU? I know that’s not a perfect proxy.
I like free health care, I like my kids not being shot at in schools. But I suspect things would be economically superior (wouldn’t they?) if we were one country. We also would then have guaranteed US protections militarily and economically. Our education system is superior and things like poverty are less here (for now).
I would imagine the average Canadian standard of living decreases in a union but probably not to an extent that’s worth risking one’s life to go fight them at the border and inevitably die so at the end of the day if they truly want Canada they will take it- let’s get real here.
At the end of the day the fact Trump is using this particular point in time to do what he’s doing is largely due to how Trudeau and the Liberals have severely divided this country and managed it into the ground. Just not sure how that’s even debatable really.
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