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This is either concern trolling or depressing lack of confidence.
It's fine if you accept your own subjugation, but it's not a healthy human condition. Maybe your country shouldn't exist as a nation if it's non-viable on its own, and you should apply to become a state. Would be more dignified.
Canada likely is viable. Resisting Chinese influence is significantly easier than American one – no shared language, no blood ties, no border, for starters. As can be seen, even Russia, which is constantly mocked as «Chinese resource colony», in fact is anything but and conducts whatever loony policy it wants. Canadian goal, in any case, is not «become economically reliant on China instead of being economically reliant on the USA» but to increase the share of non-US trade, principally with China, import Chinese industrial technology, become more competitive in the world that's coming, and build military deterrence and alliances. The alternative is to let the US fully dismantle your economy, complete its demoralization campaign, and then absorb your territory.
If you cannot even conceive of a nation executing this and only offer false dichotomies between patrons, then I repeat, again, you don't have what it takes to have a nation.
laughs in equalization payments and election results
Projecting much, Carney?
"try for a few years, figure out it's much harder than we thought, succeed anyway, but just as soon as we've figured it out drop the project and just let the Empire do it instead". This is the historical pattern for Canadian development- I think it's an HBD thing given it's been a near-constant over 150 years of the nation's existence.
So no, I don't think Canada (in its current form) has what it takes to have a nation, apart from perhaps a strategic location that made it quite difficult for a pre-industrial US to invade and the differing culture that grew up around that. The West might, because/but the West is not Canada.
I don't think the people of Ontario have any other realistic option considering how much of their economy depends on manufacturing for American firms. They won't be manufacturing anything for China, obviously; they might get away with it for Europe since energy is 1/10th the cost here, but that's more "competes favorably with Germany" than anything else.
Remember, Canadian politics are unique in that the nation has always been a protectorate of the dominant world empire. When that was Britain, we were a British protectorate; once they were defeated, we became an American protectorate instead. Our politics are still a mix of the two.
laughs in jingoistic Boomer And to think the US thinks it has problems with this- but in the US, these guys are on the Red side, while everywhere else has them on the Blue side.
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Congratulations on being absorbed like Tibet, which is now "it was always Chinese territory and has always been Chinese, apart from the time the barbarian tribes over-ran things, but then we fixed it again". The Chinese Province of Canada will excellently be part of cultural showpieces of ethnic minorities folk dance for tourism trade!
Brother/sister/sibling in Christ, it's precisely because we're a small nation with a dominant larger neighbour that I know about being eaten culturally and economically. Yes, looking for support from a larger ally (as we have done with the EU) is very good for survival, but that only works because we can cobble together common interests and heritage with the EU. If we ran off to the Chinese, I'd expect us to be not even a morsel on their plate.
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