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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Gotta hand it to him, even though he pissed off most of us (and I will never forgive him for reneging on electoral reform and reigning in CSIS/CSE for domestic surveillance), he's at least appearing to do the right things for our security during his swan song.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

The most ridiculous thing here is the assumption that Canadians would ever be more than Puerto Ricans in this scenario.

(1) We'd only ever join under duress

(2) If democracy still exists in the US, we wouldn't be given the vote, because we'd vote against them

(3) If democracy doesn't exist anymore, then whether we are called a state or not is irrelevant

(4) Canada gets turned into a strip mine with everyone conscripted to go fight against Mexico or whatever Roman Empire-style nonsense follows so that we can't organize resistance

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Mr Trudeau just tell us when we need to De Nazify the Whitehouse we are ready for the special military operation. 3 days to D.C. Quick in and out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

War of 1812 called

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ok but hear me out can you make more provinces out of US defectors?????

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No. We don't have a mechanism to add new provinces to Canada. The current provinces are defined by the Constitution and the only way to change our Constitution is to re-write the whole thing and get all ten existing provinces to agree to it (we don't have a constitutional amendment process.) The best you could do is to be a new territory; those can be created through a simple majority in Parliament.

[–] bubblewrap 3 points 2 months ago

This is incorrect, adding new provinces is covered under the 7/50 amendment protocol: a motion must pass in the HoC, Senate, and 7/10 provincial legislatures and those provincial legislatures must represent 50% of the Canadian population.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As somebody that doesn't quite understand the difference between a province and a territory, can you explain?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Provinces have powers outlined in the constitution. Territories don't. Territories are to the Federal government similar to what municipalities are to the Provincial government. A Province can dissolve a municipal government, merge them, create new ones, and the Federal government can do the same kinds of things with Territories.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Provinces have more autonomy and more representation in the Federal government, is the gist of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Manitoba act says otherwise.

Also, we do have an amendment process, although it is more convoluted than it used to be when Manitoba became a province.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amendments_to_the_Constitution_of_Canada

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess he's heard Greenland will be first, so we'll actually be the 52nd state. /s

[–] brax 8 points 2 months ago

President Musk going hard after the countries with metal deposits that will help the electric vehicle company he bought, raised, and then shit all over.