How the US Can Save Canada

 

Given Justin Trudeau’s increasingly autocratic rule, and perhaps also subversion by China, Tucker Carlson recently suggested an American invasion. Don’t Americans owe it to Canadians to defend their freedom? And do they want another Cuba on their northern border?

Let us concede that Canada is going to hell in a handcart. Still, there is a simpler, safer, solution.

The US need only declare Canada in violation of human rights; then accept refugee claims from Canadians, give then green cards and a track to citizenship.

If Trudeau continues on his fast track to tyranny, it would then matter little; individual Canadians could vote with their feet. There is no way any Canadian government could close that vast border.

It would probably also benefit America. The world is facing depopulation; the developed world is responding by opening the doors to immigration. 

But which immigrants? From the American perspective, Canadians are ideal: they are culturally identical. They are already Americans in all but passport.

And the brain drain would probably force the Canadian government to be more respectful towards its citizens. Problem solved, not a shot fired.

Perhaps more generally, depopulation will force governments to pull back from their present growing totalitarianism. I have read that the depopulation after the Black Death had much to do with the end of serfdom; labour became more precious, and had to be wooed. 

Of course, there is the opposite theory, that labour is going to become less needed as automation increases. Yet this has never happened at any previous stage of improved technology. It has always been the opposite: more jobs, and a rise in demand for labour. Improved technology makes goods cheaper; the demand for them rises. Each individual can afford, and wants, more stuff.

As populations collapse, the countries that will grow in power and influence will be those most attractive to immigrants. Prosperity will depend on offering rights and freedoms.