Given that we have some of the world’s best snipers, we really don’t need that many.
Seriously, you might ask an American soldier who has served with Canadians in Afghanistan before taking a shot at our military. And if you are ever at the Miramar headquarters for the Top Gun competition, you might look in the trophy case to see which country owns that particular award.
While you’re at it, you might want to look up why the NATO armored wargames became known as the ‘Canada Cup’.
Not a problem. Albertans have a LOT of guns. We don’t track long guns any more, but there are 175,000 registered restricted weapons in Alberta (handguns, short-barreled shotguns, etc.). There are about a quarter million active licenses to purchase long guns, and god knows how many rifles in the hands of people without licenses.
This in a population of about 4 million people. The official government data from the now defunct gun registry showed Alberta with about 380 guns per 1,000 population, which would be over 1 million guns. But many Albertans refused to register their guns, so the real number is probably much higher.
I would guess that long gun ownership in Alberta is close to the U.S. per capita, while handgun ownership is maybe 10% of the US per capita.
Britain currently holds the top spot for distance. Canada has 2nd and 3rd. Second (Furlong) is a Newfoundlander, and both he and Perry are Princess Pats. US has 3 in the top ten.
Of course it’s tough to compare these with Simo Häyhä, arguably the greatest sniper of all time. It is worth noting that he was active during the Winter War, when the Soviet Union attempted to invade neighboring Finland, which apparently pissed off the Finns.
People in Vermont don’t speak French.
Quebec’s #1 political issue is language, full stop. That one issue absolutely trumps everything else. To combine the two you would have to ask Vermonters to accept living in a place where French was the only official language, and would ask Quebecers to accept doubling the number of Anglophones. Both would be ridiculously unacceptable.
Oh no. If we annex Quebec, those cheese-eating surrender monkeys better start speaking English. They’d be in Amurica now, dammit!
Obviously, it’s all of Anglo Canada that we should annex, not just the snow prairies.
“Sorey, sir, I’m looking for information aboot nuclear devices. Is it in one of those hooses over there? Let me write that down on this serviette, eh.”
He’s not your buddy, guy.
I’ve never seen a thread so full of Canadians with no sense of humor.
I’m shocked that people seem so interested in taking these ideas seriously. The reality is long term any sizable occupation of any large territory is simply too deeply unprofitable to be sustained. It can work with small regions like Crimea, but if Russia tried to occupy all of Eastern Europe even if the West didn’t go to war with them over it, it’d be a losing game. The Soviet collapse was in part because of the untenability of keeping it all together if individual pieces of the Soviet Empire didn’t buy into the whole any longer.
That being said, if you want to posit a fascist United States like Bryan did, there’s no reason it couldn’t mostly occupy Canada. It’d be similar to the German occupation of France. There would be low level resistance, rugged areas on the periphery would fall into resistance control for periods of time. But largely the country would remain occupied, and most people would not fight. Because the areas that did would be mass exterminated, entire towns would be made examples of, the Germans did that in France–but surprisingly they didn’t have to that much. The French knew what the price of resistance was and the lion’s share had no desire to pay it. Occupations work on terror, it’s how ISIS holds places like Mosul and is how the Nazis held much of Europe for several years. Most humans in any country won’t fight against an occupying army.
I struggle to think of any occupying army in history from a totalitarian country that was forced out solely by the vanquished populace. I can’t really think of any. All the examples from WWII don’t fit because of the unconquered Allies working to push Germany/Japan out of the vanquished, and examples like the vast land lost by the USSR to Germany don’t hold because Germany never defeated the Soviet Army.
No, you’re thinking of France in Europe. Quebec has poutine-eating surrender monkeys.
I think it’s because the U.S. scares us a little bit, and also because we’re a little bit sick of being talked about like we wouldn’t stand up for ourselves (younger sibling syndrome maybe?). The general attitude we see from Americans is that they take what they fucking want, no one stands in their way, HOOO RAH, fuck all y’all, we’re number one, we’ll kill ya rather than be your friend if you have what we want! That’s scary to the rest of the world.
Yes, Canada is our little brother. We get to tease you unmercifully, but any other country tries that and we nuke 'em back to the stone age. You’ll appreciate that one day when you’re grown up and look back fondly on the noogies we gave you.
…Its all gravy…
What?
I’m not sure it’s universally funny to say something along the lines of “Hey, wouldn’t it be hilarious if I broke into your house and kidnapped one of your relatives and you couldn’t stop me? Wouldn’t that be the funniest thing ever? What, you don’t think it’s funny? You got no sense of humor?”
Besides, the OP said “This is a serious question” so if anyone here has a problem, it’s you.
Sure, why not… Banff is lovely.
Also, I like **k.d. lang **pretty well.
So that’s how the war started. The Canadians stopped apologizing when we insulted them and took offense. It’s been awful ever since we occupied the place, shopkeepers are just merely polite when we give them the labeled price in $US. I don’t know how this will ever end with the radicals urging the populace to rise up and not follow all regulations to the letter on one Thursday each month. However, the French there are quite grateful that we didn’t want them. I’m sure they’ll be on our side if the English speaking population is ever less than cordial to us.
If you were this funny when you meant to be, you’d actually be living up to how you imagine yourself.
I lack confidence in the accuracy of how you imagine I imagine myself to be.
Only if you’ll agree to assimilate NY state in exchange. 
pls canada halp