The Plan to Invade Canada

 

This guy came up with a VERY detailed plan to conquer Canada and people are loving it in the replies 🤣 | Not the Bee

But seriously, folks; it would all be over in a couple of days. All that is really needed is to rush up the pancake-flat highway and take Winnipeg. That cuts off everything west from support or reinforcement from the more populated East. 

Then, pincers west from Winnipeg and north from Montana into Alberta, all good flat tank country, to take the Prairies and the oil fields.

After that, who cares?

If you want it, Vancouver is close to the border, and the approaches from Bellingham are again flat. Pacific ports are useful, and awkward not to have, and it is the only significant one Canada owns.

The entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence is absurdly narrow at the Cabot Strait and Strait of Belle Isle, and easy to blockade. Nothing would get in or out of Ontario and Quebec. Canada starves, and must capitulate. No need to dirty your trousers crossing the river or Great Lakes to seize the industrial heartland.  But just to play it safe, the USAF can bomb the St. Lawrence Seaway's locks and dams to prevent transit of goods. It could even be done by artillery. 

You could still have the Atlantic Provinces holding out, but that would be like Monty Python's Black Knight in revernse: "Talk to the hand." They are relatively unpopulated, poor, and rely on subsidies from the rest of Canada. Without Canada's trunk, they are likely to turn to the US with cap in outstretched hand.

Canadians could not, of course, be allowed to vote. They are too liberal, and would skew the balance of power. They might instead be classed as a form of wildlife.