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Originally Posted by mikephoen

My honest guess is that the US will continue to use economic power to force Canada into a worse and worse situation. Basically a prolonged recession. Politically, Canada will follow the US with more right winged, regressive social policies. A continued erosion of our social programs, and especially our heath care system. They'll use economic threats to force our government to make policies that benefit the US more than Canada and generally just erode our sovereignty bit by bit.

I wonder about that bolded part. I actually think that one of the issues for the CPC at this point is that people view their leader as a "Maple MAGA" and watching Trump these days is making that less and less palatable.

Originally Posted by Nancy

This was higher than I would have thought.

Four in ten (43%) Canadians age 18-34 would vote to be American if citizenship and conversion of assets to USD guaranteed

Sellouts. A one-time ~40% gain on your assets is worth that? And some of those 18-34 year olds are talking about a "gain" of like $10k. That's just absurd. (I question whether there is a gain here, because in terms of real buying power it's a wash)