Re: OT - yet another OT thread

HeyBub wrote: 
James J. Gavan wrote:

Yeah, unresolved. (You read what you want to read Daniel).

1 - "We've looked and to date we've found nothing to say Yea or Nay".
2 - "Got tricky out there because of security, so we called it quits".
3 - "Not to worry, we'll get back in there when the security is
tightened  up and then we'll do some more looking. Somewhere, somehow
in the future, we'll be able to say to you, 'There you go ! We told
you the *** had WMDs', ".

Question - How long is the WORLD supposed to wait for that
verification - perhaps until the Texans see that the Saudi oilfields
have dried up ?
Not to worry, we have the second largest reserve up here, after the
Saudis, in the Athabasca Tar sands, way, way north of Edmonton, and
the Tar sands are the size of Florida.


Read today that the Canadian government is so f*ed that it is not unreasonable to see a breakup in the near future. The way I recall the story, Quebec becomes a stand-alone country, provinces to the east remain Canada, provinces to the west join the United States.

Then those tar sands that once were yours become ours.

You wish. Dream on ! True there's a lot of true-blues here in Alberta who would welcome Uncle Sam. Well he does own the damned oil-patch anyway, and those true-blues go home with a very fat pay-cheque.

But there's a significant number of us wouldn't cave in to such a proposal. Had I wanted to be a Yank, I would have applied to go there in the first place. Me, 'uneventful' Canada was a much more attractive choice. #2 would have been NZ.

BTW - It's not the Canadian government that's fed up...... - Whoops ! Just re-read you and see the asterisk in f*ed. "As you were", as they say in the military. The hypothesis is correct, and strangely, and I don't know why, but Quebec is the most anti-American province. Don't know how it would work out, not being familiar with the geography and having never visited, but the Eastern provinces seem to be split from the rest of Anglo Canada, physically separated by Quebec.

Going west from Ontario which is the Anglo-base, Manitoba - not quite sure - tend to be centrist. Next Saskatchewan - historically a Socialist/Labour stronghold, although they've gotten in on the oil-wagon as well - but their Socialism would tend to hold them back. Alberta - "Puhleeeseee", beg the Tories, "Uncle Sam take us over". But there's 25% would give a definite No. And faced with the crunch, some of the rest would express hesitancy. Then to BC - flip-flops between Liberal/NDP - i.e. Liberal/Socialist - so I really don't see them having
any great hunger to become US citizens.

I can see right-wingers, specifically those in Alberta, always hungering for an absorption by the States. But given some of the following :-

- any absorption would be on American terms
- How does does our public/separate (catholic) school system fit into the US constitution
- health care; even those who complain - guess they'd be happier with what they currently have
- Politics - drop a parliamentary system in favour of a republican system

I think with the exception of those Albertans above, the rest of the country would have a reality-check including the Quebecois. Nevertheless, one shouldn't be complacent and the challenge could always become a possibility - Dear God - not in my lifetime !

Jimmy, Calgary AB
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