This is just how he tries to make deals. Spook people into freaking out and hastily agreeing to a bad deal. This is one of those moments where I’m glad it’s Carney at the helm. I don’t need him to be perfect I just need him to steer our country through this mess so we can come out the other side intact.

If there is an other side.

Ten years ago, twenty years ago, Tim’s was always rubbish. The coffee is battery acid and the food is unfit for human consumption. I can’t remember a time when it wasn’t shit.

I don’t get the point of these stupid articles. Canada needs to spend a lot more on military. A lot more. The only question is whether tagging it to GDP is enough or we need to do more.

We just need to be smarter about how we spend it. Canada has a huge territory with a small population, so efficiency is key.

You’re definitely overthinking this. IF such a deal was made, and that’s a massive if, the treaty would spell out exactly what happens to the people living on the land and those details would be points of negotiation.

Frankly the ideas of the other commenters that they would only be granted PR are ridiculous.

If we annex a chunk of land then we need accept the residents as our citizens. The finer details are an open question for treaty negotiations. I would guess there are requirements like it only applies to US citizens whose primary residence is within the territory at the time of signing the treaty, or at the time the handover occurs, or something in between. Maybe the residents have a choice: exchange American citizenship for Canadian, or keep American and get Canadian PR.

These questions are easily solvable but exactly how they’re solved is up to Ottawa and Washington. I doubt the US would ever give this land to Canada though, they will want something in exchange.

You recall correctly. The Alberta premier proposed it, and it’s something they included in the Alberta bill of rights earlier in the 70s.

Without the notwithstanding clause the Charter would restrict the provinces’ legislative freedom and give the federal justices greater powers than the provincial representatives, when one of the defining features of the Westminster system is that of parliamentary sovereignty or supremacy. In the British system, parliament has the right to make or unmake any law.

The current situation is like a compromise between having an enforceable written bill of rights and respecting the sovereignty of the provincial legislatures. Without the clause the provinces would never have agreed to the constitution.