shockedcanadian
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Again, don't shoot the messenger. While in university, in the height of my physical health I was willing to join the military and risk my life for my country. I'm not going to project stolen valour as I didn't join, but it was only due to the delay and my friend and I talking further about it and I decided to go back to university full time rather than boot camp at Borden in Ontario during the weekends.
This is what I warned of. My generation dropped the ball, totally screwed and they accepted it because we lived through the "capitalists vs communists" phase. The older generations are even more invested spiritually in Canada.
The young generation? They know that the S.I.C is collapsing their system. There are efforts by some to force change but they are hitting a fascist wall of "23% budget increases to police agencies" Just starling.
So, if America offered 18-34 year olds full U.S citizenship and conversion of assets to U.S funds, America can absorb millions of young, ambitious citizens.
Frightening.
It's why I said that O'Leary has it all wrong, if the U.S offered the Constitution, you can bet Canadians would prefer that over the caste system that destroyed my life and millions of others so that some lazy, low performing criminal can milk the system for him and his dumb kids.
If CSIS needs help they can reach out to me. The covert S.I.C are the greatest national security threat to Canada EVER. In all of its history. Not the Russians. Not the Chinese. The domestic covert S.I.C.
Period.
www.thestar.com
Ipsos tested the waters just before Trump’s inauguration and found a surprisingly large number of younger Canadians (those aged 18 to 34) are prepared to support the notion of becoming the 51st state if a couple of basic conditions are met.
More than four in 10 (43 per cent) said they’d vote to join the States if Canadians were offered full American citizenship and had their Canadian assets converted into U.S. dollars. (By comparison, only 17 per cent 55 and older would go along with the idea.) Almost a third of young Canadians think “it’s only a matter of time” before Canada and the U.S. merge into one country.
Those are big numbers. I’m not suggesting they show a merger (or takeover) will happen. Even if we all liked the idea, the Republicans who control the U.S. Congress wouldn’t welcome a huge new blue state, whatever Trump thinks.
But the Ipsos data does show a worrisome lack of faith among younger Canadians in the value of this country and its long-term future as an independent concern.
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Last year I wrote about something called the World Happiness Report, which ranked Canada a respectable 15th out of 143 nations when it comes to overall happiness. But those results concealed an enormous generation gap: older Canadians ranked eighth, while those under 30 were way down at 58th in the world. A McGill University scholar commented at the time that “we have a very, very unhappy youth.”
Young people trying to get established in this country are grappling with huge issues their parents didn’t face — the cost of housing, most obviously, but also the collapse of trust in almost every institution
This is what I warned of. My generation dropped the ball, totally screwed and they accepted it because we lived through the "capitalists vs communists" phase. The older generations are even more invested spiritually in Canada.
The young generation? They know that the S.I.C is collapsing their system. There are efforts by some to force change but they are hitting a fascist wall of "23% budget increases to police agencies" Just starling.
So, if America offered 18-34 year olds full U.S citizenship and conversion of assets to U.S funds, America can absorb millions of young, ambitious citizens.
Frightening.
It's why I said that O'Leary has it all wrong, if the U.S offered the Constitution, you can bet Canadians would prefer that over the caste system that destroyed my life and millions of others so that some lazy, low performing criminal can milk the system for him and his dumb kids.
If CSIS needs help they can reach out to me. The covert S.I.C are the greatest national security threat to Canada EVER. In all of its history. Not the Russians. Not the Chinese. The domestic covert S.I.C.
Period.
Andrew Phillips: I get why four in 10 young Canadians want to join the U.S.
Younger Canadians haven’t been dealt a good hand, certainly not as good a hand as those older people, who are much more likely to tell Donald Trump to get lost.
www.thestar.com
Ipsos tested the waters just before Trump’s inauguration and found a surprisingly large number of younger Canadians (those aged 18 to 34) are prepared to support the notion of becoming the 51st state if a couple of basic conditions are met.
More than four in 10 (43 per cent) said they’d vote to join the States if Canadians were offered full American citizenship and had their Canadian assets converted into U.S. dollars. (By comparison, only 17 per cent 55 and older would go along with the idea.) Almost a third of young Canadians think “it’s only a matter of time” before Canada and the U.S. merge into one country.
Those are big numbers. I’m not suggesting they show a merger (or takeover) will happen. Even if we all liked the idea, the Republicans who control the U.S. Congress wouldn’t welcome a huge new blue state, whatever Trump thinks.
But the Ipsos data does show a worrisome lack of faith among younger Canadians in the value of this country and its long-term future as an independent concern.
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Last year I wrote about something called the World Happiness Report, which ranked Canada a respectable 15th out of 143 nations when it comes to overall happiness. But those results concealed an enormous generation gap: older Canadians ranked eighth, while those under 30 were way down at 58th in the world. A McGill University scholar commented at the time that “we have a very, very unhappy youth.”
Young people trying to get established in this country are grappling with huge issues their parents didn’t face — the cost of housing, most obviously, but also the collapse of trust in almost every institution
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