And access through the Northwest Passage and the St. Lawrence Seaway

Aren't you basically already a protectorate under our nuclear shield?

pretty much

Canada actually opted out of defense from missile strikes

lol, really?

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/policy-says-us-wont-defend-canada-from-missile-attack-norad-general/article36258719/

```Those tests have also resurrected questions over whether Canada should join the U.S. ballistic missile defence shield, which it famously opted out of in 2005 following a divisive national debate.```

You guys also never joined the Rio Pact, just saying

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ok, I know we over use this word... but i'm really sorry about Justin Trudeau, not that I voted for him

Trudeau wasn't in office in 2005

The problems with Canada are much deeper and longer-running than that

that article is 2017

yes

yes they are

we didn't know until Trudeau though

Yeah, but you guys opted out of the missile defense shield in 2005

The 2017 article was about renewed questions over whether it should be joined

i'm just realising now that it's actually communist programming in the school since after the war

Also, friendly reminder:

see

that's Trudeau senior there... starting shit

trudeau knows what hes doing

but like I said

most Canadians didn't know how bad it was until we got Junior... we're just nice people, ya know

"knows" how to abolish canada, sure..

If I recall correctly, one of the earliest advocates for Canadian confederation originally advocated for annexation with the US

And on a tangentially related note, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Montreal_Annexation_Manifesto

programmed I tell you

There's an entire untold history about the myriad of near-annexations and near-wars between the US and Canada

Hell, even in terms of sentiment, the most widely cited reason for buying Alaska as reported in newspapers of the day was to give a stronger claim to British Columbia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)

^Yup

The time the British Empire and the US nearly went to war because an American on the southern side of a disputed island shot a pig belonging to an Irishman on the northern side of the disputed island

both sides even trying to goad the other into opening fire to start the war

Also honorable mention to the fact that during the US Civil War, there were a few verses added to Yankee Doodle, including
```Secession first he would put down,
Wholly and forever,
And afterwards from Britain's crown,
He Canada would sever!```

because you Canadian fucks were harboring the Confederate Secret Service, Confederate terrorists, and arguably played an enabling role in a probable conspiracy that ultimately led to the death of President Lincoln

probably. blame communism though, #NotAllCanucks

There's also an obscure 1920's conspiracy suggesting that President Harding was poisoned by British spies while taking a trip through Canada, bringing the potential Canadian role in US presidents' deaths to two.

you have your own internal problems though. Imagine Hillary had won the election..

contemporary to the time, died out in the years since