"canada is too big to fail" o rly

[beemo]

It takes a century and a half of political imagination, heroic toil and, to be sure, great geopolitical luck to build a country like Canada. It takes but a year or two of hubris, lassitude and ignorance for the whole thing to be lost.

There is today in Canada a dangerous line of argument that must be checked by all thinking citizens: It holds that

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[beemo]

depends on how long stephen harper sticks around for, and being a robot, he is probably immortal.

[effervescent]

That's a really depressing thought, so I hope not. We have radically different political systems.

[romp]

thank you! that idea made me very sad

[beoweasel]

What, we're going to follow the timeline to Fallout?

[uluviel]

Well, considering this: The threat of imminent American invasion will no longer be there to force or pull together the various parts of British North America, as did Macdonald, Cartier and the other Fathers of Confederation

I guess good news for Canadian unity? Yay, we have a common enemy, let's all band together?