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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Well, no, we’re a country. Nothing convenient about it. No “barely” about it. Real country. Just because a small number of people wish it weren’t so, doesn’t make it less true.
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The Trump tariff issue is just a recent and very obvious, example of why this isn't true.
Canada actually shares some attributes with other nations that were glued together artificially. Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, for example. Maybe even the USSR.
It's absurd to think that someone in Prince George, BC and someone in St John's NFLD are governed by the same people sitting in Ottawa, who are often from Quebec and chosen by elections largely determined by a concentrated population base in Southern Ontario. And people think the best solution to this nonsensical arrangement is to give more power to the Federal government?