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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has resigned, a sign of yet more changing of the times as the Prime Minister since 2015 marks the end of an decade of Liberal Party rule of Canada, and possibly yet another political dynasty scalp Donald Trump may claim. While Trudeau's critics and issues go far beyond Trump, the internal-party revolt since the US 2024 election will put another person on the podium right as Donald Trump assumes office, part of a broader realignment in the West as governments including Germany, France, and others have seen falls- several deliberate- to re-roll priorities and mandates in (temporal) alignment with the change in the US presidency. (Canada's 2025 election, much like Germany's, is/was scheduled for October. Canada's parliament is suspended until 24 March where a new PM will (hopefully) be chosen.)
Broadly associated with the more progressive-woke politics, Trudeau's liberals are expected to face a shellacking, though whether that's as part of Canada's experience of the anti-incumbant wave of the last decade, a backlash to progressive politics, or Trudeau's own personal contribution. (Last year, 49% of respondents in a Canadian survey characterized the PM as 'Arrogant,' which is often just the first and more polite words in some lists.)
A (much) longer political obituary can be read here for those who are curious. Regardless of one's views of the man, the sun will continue to rise, the earth rotate, and life will go on.
But we may never get another world leader on camera in blackface.
Related: Now Trump is pushing for the annexation of Canada
If the United States invaded Canada out of the blue one day what would happen? Would they even shoot back? If Canada invoked Article V would the UK or France threaten nuclear war?
I don’t really have a model for this, and yet it could easily happen.
I am sure that the US could take the cities, the Canadian forces would likely not be keen on urban warfare.
However, the recent track record of the US with regard to occupying and holding large territorial states has not exactly been great, recently. Now, unlike Afghanistan, Canada does not have a population growth well beyond replenishment, but on the other side it is also 15x bigger. Even if only a few percent of Canadians are willing to engage in asymmetric warfare, these will likely have the support of a large fraction of their population. Nor do I expect that the US will succeed in othering the Canadians enough to commit large scale atrocities which might eventually terrorize the Canadians.
But then again, the hypothetical is rather absurd in the first place.
Waiting until the Canadian gun confiscation finished would make it much easier, and also be a hilarious lesson. Right now they can still keep their rifles but aren't allowed to take them to the range, and the process of rounding up door kickers to seize them is only just starting.
Wait, Canadians aren't allowed to take their guns to the range? I asked Perplexity and it said Canadians could go to the range. I assume the LLM is cucked but not totally off base. What is it missing?
New ban on basically all semi rifles, owners can store them until confiscation is arranged due to the unprecedented scale of the ban; they tried to rely on "voluntary" turn-ins like with previous smaller bans, but it didn't work.
Handgun sales were banned already, I'm not sure if they moved on confiscation there yet.
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