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US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance

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Re: US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

zulux wrote: post #6

This idea is adorable, but ultimately untenable if either country drifts in its views on how its citizens should behave. I suspect that Canada isn't fond of how Americans view guns, and I suspect that the US is not quite on board with blasphemy/hurty-words laws. I suspect the divergence will grow.

"Hurty-words"

Remind me again -- which country is it that demands to see the content of your social media feeds at the border, and then chooses to deport (or worse, detain) you based on what your feed says about their president and his thieving gang of companions?

Or detains and deports academics with green cards based on their stated opinions about what's happening in Gaza?

I could go on.

Re: US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance

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Post by Beannation »

bluGill wrote: post #29
Beannation wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really hope we get back to times where we were really best friends. It was good for both countries and was a model for international relationships/partnerships.

Write your congressman. If congress decides the people care things will change, but when they hear nothing they don't care.

Im Canadian, so I cant do much to affect American policy. I'm generally happy with how Canada's politicians are handling this situation. I do hope more Americans do what you say, it is why democracy exists.

Re: US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance

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Post by yieldcrv »

sschueller wrote: post #25
zulux wrote: post #6

This idea is adorable, but ultimately untenable if either country drifts in its views on how its citizens should behave. I suspect that Canada isn't fond of how Americans view guns, and I suspect that the US is not quite on board with blasphemy/hurty-words laws. I suspect the divergence will grow.

I don't agree with most of what Germany does and I am sure they are not very fond of our (Switzerland) "liberal" gun laws, yet I can just walk/drive or take a train across the border and no one gives 2 cents.

Germans and your other neighbors call you guys weird, took me a while before I stopped by but for me - an American - Switzerland is perfect

guns, jets, immigration sovereignty and a disinterest in peer pressure about it, similar combination of cultural influences, publicly traded central bank that just creates money and buys US tech stocks and produces dividends, ATMs that dispense $200, $500 and $1000 denominations and nobody batting an eye about it

just some tweaks to life that stand out to me, all the other normal stuff is cool too

only citizenship I would consider trying to marry into

Re: US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

1over137 wrote: post #23
zulux wrote: post #6

This idea is adorable, but ultimately untenable if either country drifts in its views on how its citizens should behave. I suspect that Canada isn't fond of how Americans view guns, and I suspect that the US is not quite on board with blasphemy/hurty-words laws. I suspect the divergence will grow.

Canada technically had a blasphemy law on the books until 2018, but it was basically gathering dust, the last conviction was in 1927.

He's just dog-whistling some disinformation about Canada's hate speech laws. In my experience where I've made the mistake of actually engaging... It's usually about trans people and pronouns and some family court case in BC that they spread half-facts about, and so on.

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Post by selectodude »

skipants wrote: post #12
zulux wrote: post #6

This idea is adorable, but ultimately untenable if either country drifts in its views on how its citizens should behave. I suspect that Canada isn't fond of how Americans view guns, and I suspect that the US is not quite on board with blasphemy/hurty-words laws. I suspect the divergence will grow.

> I suspect that Canada isn't fond of how Americans view guns I'm putting this into my overflowing bucket of internet comments that doesn't "get" Canadians. Sorry to be curt but, since Canada-USA relations has been more at the forefront, I've seen too many comments that just "don't get it" and it riles me up each time. They've had the 2nd amendment since their country was founded. It has no bearing on relations betwe…

Also the idea that Canada is in any way anti-gun is ludicrous.

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Post by brightball »

nemomarx wrote: post #5

It's not an unfair reaction to the main entrance being closed, but it is a little sad. The northern border used to be so much more flexible and I don't see any real benefits from doing all this.

It's apparently a response due to a noticeable increase in apprehensions over the last 6 years.

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-107501

Re: US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance

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Post by buckle8017 »

nemomarx wrote: post #5

It's not an unfair reaction to the main entrance being closed, but it is a little sad. The northern border used to be so much more flexible and I don't see any real benefits from doing all this.

Canada allowed millions of temporary foreign workers in.

Unfortunately the border actually needs to be more sealed.

Re: US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance

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Post by wl »

selectodude wrote: post #36
skipants wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I suspect that Canada isn't fond of how Americans view guns I'm putting this into my overflowing bucket of internet comments that doesn't "get" Canadians. Sorry to be curt but, since Canada-USA relations has been more at the forefront, I've seen too many comments that just "don't get it" and it riles me up each time. They've had the 2nd amendment since their country was founded. It has no bearing on relations betwe…

Also the idea that Canada is in any way anti-gun is ludicrous.

With very few exceptions, you can’t acquire handguns in Canada anymore. They’ve also banned most semiautomatic rifles.

Maybe Canadian public opinion isn’t anti-gun, but the current government seems to be.

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