Are you ready for the NAU?

[The Avon Lady]

That would be the North American Union (http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/06/coming-to-continent-near-you.html).

Thanks to P_Funk for inspiring this thread. :rock:

[P_Funk]

I'm very much scared by all these buddy-up with the US ideas coming out. I just tonight heard of legislation that the Federal Conservatives want to quietly put through that allows any allied (hear that, not just American) 'officer of the peace', meaning not just police, to enter Canada with their firearm with less paperwork.

Canada's sovereignty is being gutted from the inside, and we elected the bastards.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070626.wguns26/BNStory/National/home

[The Avon Lady]

Site for thought:

Take Canada Back (http://takingcanadaback.ca/).

I think that takes the idea a few step more than what you're thinking of, P-Funk? :hmm:

[P_Funk]

Site for thought:

Take Canada Back (http://takingcanadaback.ca/).

I think that takes the idea a few step more than what you're thinking of, P-Funk? :hmm:
I think it takes a different view of Canada for one. He obviously isn't the pinko-commie handout queen that I am. However he also fears the loss of rights in the so called 'war on terrorism'. On NAFTA he's bang on.

I don't have to 100% agree with the specifics to stand with him on the general idea. Most important is our sovereignty. We're losing that to the US.

[The Avon Lady]

Site for thought:

Take Canada Back (http://takingcanadaback.ca/).

I think that takes the idea a few step more than what you're thinking of, P-Funk? :hmm:
I think it takes a different view of Canada for one. He obviously isn't the pinko-commie handout queen that I am.
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/9012/captainobviouspl7.jpg

[P_Funk]

Hey, I said obvious first.:D

[Iceman]

I'm very much scared by all these buddy-up with the US ideas coming out. I just tonight heard of legislation that the Federal Conservatives want to quietly put through that allows any allied (hear that, not just American) 'officer of the peace', meaning not just police, to enter Canada with their firearm with less paperwork.

Canada's sovereignty is being gutted from the inside, and we elected the bastards.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070626.wguns26/BNStory/National/home

Ya know I hear nothing but pissing and moaning pretty much from this particular board here on subsim about the world and how we are destroying the earth and need to do this and do that to make it better...

How exactly do you think anything major to save the little plant you live on, will succeed unless someone takes a chance/takes a step out in faith and tries something new?

You are going to need Drastic drastic changes pronto or you may as well think of how and what universe you want to be re-incarnited into cause this one is almost beyond repair and all the scientists in the world will concede this...

Man has neither the will nor forsight to see what evil he has done and how to escape his deeds.

Free trade agreements and police from America coming into Canada are the least of the worlds problems me thinks....truly


Matthew 23
[24] Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

[P_Funk]

Free trade agreements and police from America coming into Canada are the least of the worlds problems me thinks....truly

For Canadians they are the height of issues. Canada has always had a difficult relationship with the US being so close. NAFTA is also far from a free trade agreement. Its a contract that the US selectively respects. Free trade is meant to be without tariff or border tax, but routinely canadian goods are charged simply because they're more competitive than the American equivalent. That isn't part of the deal, and every single arbitration has agreed. The US still ignores it. For my country it is a big deal.

And that is only the surface of it. It isn't just innocent robbery on the part of American tariffs which have actually forced saw mill closures in BC over softwood lumber, no its more than that. There is a concerted effort to dissolve the borders between our two countries and to negate Canadian control of our territories. I've already mentioned the North-West passage a few times. American submarines have a few times openly violated our waters just to prove that they can. An American judge also ordered the seizure of the Canadian end of a tunnel used to smuggle drugs into the US.

I think that if it were your country's sovereignty being violated you'd give a damn.

[August]

Excellent! I wonder how our flag will look with all those extra stars!

[Jimbuna]

Have the Americans suddenly found out about a vast stock of oil reserves lying underground in Canadian territory? :hmm:

[fatty]

Have the Americans suddenly found out about a vast stock of oil reserves lying underground in Canadian territory? :hmm:

They've known about them for a while, I think we're safe for now :D

[Mush Martin]

Have the Americans suddenly found out about a vast stock of oil reserves lying underground in Canadian territory? :hmm:

I think when the time comes the issue will more likely be Freshwater

[The Avon Lady]

Have the Americans suddenly found out about a vast stock of oil reserves lying underground in Canadian territory? :hmm:

I think when the time comes the issue will more likely be Freshwater
You're both wrong.

Dig deeper (http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22maple+syrup+shortage%22&spell=1). :yep:

[ReallyDedPoet]

Excellent! I wonder how our flag will look with all those extra stars!

Your kidding right :yep:

RDP

[August]

Excellent! I wonder how our flag will look with all those extra stars!
Your kidding right :yep:

RDP

Sorta, but a (voluntary) union of Canada and the US would be good for both countries I think.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Excellent! I wonder how our flag will look with all those extra stars!
Your kidding right :yep:

RDP
Sorta, but a (voluntary) union of Canada and the US would be good for both countries I think.

I would go for better working relations than any type of formal union. What that means at this point, I am not sure?

I like Canada having its own Sovereignty. Now and into the future.

RDP

[The Avon Lady]

Has anyone considered that it's Canada that's the aggressor? :hmm:

http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/1764/286884hmolwjs5.jpg

[Heibges]

Have the Americans suddenly found out about a vast stock of oil reserves lying underground in Canadian territory? :hmm:

I think when the time comes the issue will more likely be Freshwater

This is really scary. I ws reading an article about the folks with the wherewithal to do so buying up water rights.

[Heibges]

Have the Americans suddenly found out about a vast stock of oil reserves lying underground in Canadian territory? :hmm:

I think when the time comes the issue will more likely be Freshwater
You're both wrong.

Dig deeper (http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22maple+syrup+shortage%22&spell=1). :yep:

The maple industry was also hammered by the ice storm of 1995/96. Something like 70% of all the trees in Vermont, the producer of the world's best maple syrup, were damaged.

[Heibges]

Has anyone considered that it's Canada that's the aggressor? :hmm:

http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/1764/286884hmolwjs5.jpg

Yes, Alan Alda considered it in "Canadian Bacon".

[Oberon]

Quick, turn on the telly, they're coming, eh? ;) :lol: :lol:

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/3000/166115yegdwqg8.jpg

[August]

What is it with all these foreigners trying to stir up trouble between the US and Canada?

Maybe they're just jealous the two countries have the longest undefended border in the world...

[bradclark1]

Sorta, but a (voluntary) union of Canada and the US would be good for both countries I think.
What would the benefit be besides a bunch of pi$$ed off French Canadians?

[Chock]

Maybe they're just jealous the two countries have the longest undefended border in the world...

They also have one of the shortest, most heavily defended borders on the other side though:rotfl:

:D Chock

[Oberon]

Maybe they're just jealous the two countries have the longest undefended border in the world...

They also have one of the shortest, most heavily defended borders on the other side though:rotfl:

:D Chock

Well, you've gotta watch out for those Alaskans! ;) :lol: :lol:

[August]

Maybe they're just jealous the two countries have the longest undefended border in the world...
They also have one of the shortest, most heavily defended borders on the other side though:rotfl:

:D Chock

Obviously you have no conception of what a heavily defended border looks like. Google some pictures of the Korean DMZ with its minefields, concertina and gun emplacements then get back to me.

[August]

Sorta, but a (voluntary) union of Canada and the US would be good for both countries I think. What would the benefit be besides a bunch of pi$$ed off French Canadians?

Bigger is always better.

[P_Funk]

Sorta, but a (voluntary) union of Canada and the US would be good for both countries I think. What would the benefit be besides a bunch of pi$$ed off French Canadians?
The French are always pissed off. No matter what Quebec is always pissing and moaning. Granted I like them alot more than the rest of Canada but they'd be alot more useful if they actually decided to be Canadian before anything else.

[bradclark1]

Sorta, but a (voluntary) union of Canada and the US would be good for both countries I think. What would the benefit be besides a bunch of pi$$ed off French Canadians?
The French are always pissed off. No matter what Quebec is always pissing and moaning. Granted I like them alot more than the rest of Canada but they'd be alot more useful if they actually decided to be Canadian before anything else.
There's a reason they call themselves "French" Canadian's I guess instead of Canadian French.:D

[Heibges]

Sorta, but a (voluntary) union of Canada and the US would be good for both countries I think. What would the benefit be besides a bunch of pi$$ed off French Canadians?
The French are always pissed off. No matter what Quebec is always pissing and moaning. Granted I like them alot more than the rest of Canada but they'd be alot more useful if they actually decided to be Canadian before anything else.
There's a reason they call themselves "French" Canadian's I guess instead of Canadian French.:D

:D Everyone needs to relax before someone brings up General Wolfe and the Plains of Abraham.:lol:

[Oberon]

Sorta, but a (voluntary) union of Canada and the US would be good for both countries I think. What would the benefit be besides a bunch of pi$$ed off French Canadians?
The French are always pissed off. No matter what Quebec is always pissing and moaning. Granted I like them alot more than the rest of Canada but they'd be alot more useful if they actually decided to be Canadian before anything else.
There's a reason they call themselves "French" Canadian's I guess instead of Canadian French.:D

:D Everyone needs to relax before someone brings up General Wolfe and the Plains of Abraham.:lol:

:hmm:
Abraham collects planes?! :doh:

[P_Funk]

:D Everyone needs to relax before someone brings up General Wolfe and the Plains of Abraham.:lol: Too late!

Montcalm was a classic French military fool! Quebec City was walled at the time. It was a fort with provisions to survive a siege. Ships from France were on their way. Wolf however had no advantage in troops. He had no ships nor did he have the provisions to besiege the fort successfully. All Montcalm had to do to win was stay put. But he didn't and he left the security of his walls to get slaughtered.

One fool. One big mistake. One huge what if for the history of my country.:cool:

[Heibges]

:D Everyone needs to relax before someone brings up General Wolfe and the Plains of Abraham.:lol: Too late!

Montcalm was a classic French military fool! Quebec City was walled at the time. It was a fort with provisions to survive a siege. Ships from France were on their way. Wolf however had no advantage in troops. He had no ships nor did he have the provisions to besiege the fort successfully. All Montcalm had to do to win was stay put. But he didn't and he left the security of his walls to get slaughtered.

One fool. One big mistake. One huge what if for the history of my country.:cool:

Well then you might as we go ahead and tell us what happened to the British the first time they tried to assault Fort Ticonderoga. :lol:

[yankee-V]

"Reliving the war of 1812"

They do it every weekend at http://www.fortmchenryguard.org/

"We call it BackCheese, eh"