The Canada Problem

I came across a video of Tucker Carlson and Matt Walsh discussing Canada. They are particularly appalled by MAiD, it being applied to the young and mentally ill, and the harvesting of organs. Carlson says he would feel safer now living in Communist China than in Canada. And he suggested the US should invade Canada on human rights grounds. 

Is this hyperbole? No doubt, but it is interesting to hear it from someone able to be more objective. I fear Canadians are like the proverbial frog in the boiling pot. As the temperature rises incrementally, we cannot tell when it is time to jump. Things today still look mostly like yesterday. Okay, another censorship bill is moving through committee. Okay, a big steel mill closed down, and a big pulp mill. Okay, the latest judgment says aborigines own title to part of Vancouver. Okay, MAiD is expanding. Okay, nobody is investigating CCP influence over elections. But I haven’t been directly affected, have I? Sure, the groceries are more expensive than last week—but I have a lot wrapped up in this house, in this neighbourhood, in this job. It won’t go on in this direction forever...

First they came for the trade unionists...

But talking about invading Canada is crazy talk.

The problem is that Canada elected this government. And recently re-elected it. While foreign interference may have affected a few seats, and Communist China does seem to hold influence over the current government, the Carney regime reasonably reflects the popular will. Therefore there is no “human rights” case to invade. It would be exactly parallel to Putin invading Ukraine, “to unseat Nazi elements in its government.” It would be interfering with another country’s internal affairs.

There would have to be some direct threat to the security of the United States to make the thing even remotely legal in international law.

What the Trump government should do is to offer Canadians automatic refugee status. There has been some talk of doing this for Brits. This way the US could staunch their demographic decline with a body of immigrants perfectly suited to assimilate quickly, generally well-educated, and well-disposed to the USA. Unlike, say, Somalis. Some, it is true, might really be economic migrants, but this is far less likely to be the case than with a Third World country—they would be coming usually genuinely because they embrace American values. American values are the same as traditional British or Canadian values, after all.

This would of course accelerate the decline of Canada. Brains will drain South. This too is to the US’s advantage: a diminished Canada could not push for hard bargains over their resources.

At worst, might Canada become a bigger Cuba or Venezuela, turning to China as sponsor, an enemy right on America’s doorstep?

Then it might be useful to have a large body of Canadian refugees in the USA, able to freely organize and arm. It may not have worked for the Fenians, or at the Bay of Pigs, but it has worked for others. A government in waiting.

I’m surprised Trump hasn’t thought of it.