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PaperclipPerfector
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Obviously- he's more Brit than Canadian (one notes a foreign king on the throne- anything but the domestic option, clearly). And the people who voted for him all remember a time when Britain, and not America, was how Canada defined itself (politically and morally)- this is the Conservative view in the country (the party calls itself something else).
Everyone who was born after that (which goes double for the people outside the Canadian Imperial capital- Toronto/Ottawa/Montreal) voted for the Reform party (the party calls itself something else).
Everyone who doesn't work for a living wants this.
It's jingoism, plain and simple. The old always take the young for granted and provoke stupid wars on purpose- after all, they aren't going to be fighting, now are they? The young will fight and die to preserve the political prerogatives of the old (except this time the old has nothing to pay them with).
A long time ago that point was stressed, repeatedly, by those who actually fought in
Great European Civil WarWW1/2- by the same people who vote for Carney now. Public education was wasted on them, clearly.Trudeau championed it, Carney would continue it if he could afford it. The country has shifted its moral capital into fighting the trade war and away from "accept infinity migrants".
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