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They should.
Our populace is too stupid to vote responsibly, which means the filth will always rise to the top, which means our government will always be corrupt, which means it can't be trusted.
Distance yourself from us. Form allegiances with other countries. We cannot be trusted.
I'm sorry. I've voted at every opportunity to prevent this outcome. Many of us have. Just not enough.
What's more appalling is that 13% of Canadians have a favourable view of Trump. Do better Alberta. Do better.
That's not funny. Grocery stores here are filled with people weeding out the American products, too.
I am a U.S. citizen (stuck in the U.S.) and I view the U.S. as an enemy country
A little less than half of Americans are my enemy. This is also the same percentage of Canadians I consider to be my enemy.
The big, important difference being that in the US the naughty third is in control.
The new right, freedom convoys, AFD, and other far right movements are our common enemy.
Historically Canada also feels that Americans don't know much about us at all.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BhTZ_tgMUdo&t=331s&pp=2AHLApACAQ%3D%3D
That's because most Americans are ignorant to anything that isn't about them. I am an American, and I would definitely leave if I could. My passport ran out, and I will try to get another one, but I'm not hopeful anymore. I am eligible for a UK passport through ancestral means, but since I'm on disability, I can't afford the immigration fees. I have always felt like a second citizen in the US. My mother was from England, as well as half of my family. I have been there several times and I absolutely loved my time there. My ex-wife is from there as well. Not everyone in the US is a far-right cultist, some of us are just as pissed about the threats to you guys as you are. By the way, go Blue Jays, keep Vladdy in blue.
You are correct, the only thing I know about Canada is your still part of the empire in some wierd way and you fought hard as fuck during WW2.
Kinda wierd I know more about Mexican history than yours
It's kind of weird, but I'm not surprised. Mexico is exotic and just has a lot more historically going on IIRC.
Canada's history goes something like: The French start trading furs with the natives, the colonial British show up, the British take New France from ~~Napoleon~~ the French, they decide to shotgun-marry the two into a new country after the US civil war, and then the country slowly transitions from being in a geopolitics-free bubble run by the British to one run by the Americans (with a period of worrying about the two fighting each other).
So, the big picture isn't exactly action-packed - in a way, we're having the most eventful period in the country's history now. (Of course, there's tons of other stuff if you want to look closer, including migrations, minor rebellions, the various schemes the British tried to thwart American expansion, constant flirtation with splitting apart again and Newfoundland joining)
Edit: Oh shit, I forgot the vikings. Yeah, they came and did viking stuff, and left some house foundations. Then all died out. And I should mention it had stuff happening the whole time before Europeans arrived, just no literate cultures to record it, so it's prehistory.
The British took New France from France at the end of the seven years war with the treaty of Paris in 1763. Napoleon was born 7 years later. Napoleon only sold Louisiana to the US in 1804 just because his plans were not working out with Haiti.
Shit, wrong war between England and France! My bad, will fix.
The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed. They are connected through their use of the English language and historical-cultural ties. The chief institutions of the organisation are the Commonwealth Secretariat, which focuses on intergovernmental relations, and the Commonwealth Foundation, which focuses on non-governmental relations between member nations. Numerous organisations are associated with and operate within the Commonwealth. It is known colloquially as the British Commonwealth.
I mean, that leaves out the part where Charles III is our de jure (but not de facto) head of state.
In name only. Canada is neither beholden or attached to Britain except by tradition,. Same as Australia, the Bahamas, Cameroon and 53 other nation states.
De jure means the law as written, de facto means in practice.
Yes, in practice we're totally independent, but the fact our constitution says otherwise seems like a bigger deal than the cultural ties or whatever.
We give them no money, land or resources. We are not beholden to them to fight their wars or be involved in their treaties and our "Canadian Oath of Allegiance is a promise or declaration of fealty to the Canadian monarch—as personification of the Canadian state and its authority, rather than as an individual person". Source
We owe them nothing.
I never said we did.
I mean, they don't. Their country is self-contained enough they don't have to bother. I hear Chinese are the same way, if you can understand their language.
I would have thought this would be much higher than 1/3.
Wouldn't say "enemy" exactly, but I think it's fair to say there isn't a Western democracy in the world that views the USA as a reliable ally right now. Because you're a Russian asset.
Are they a frenemy then? A rival? A sibling that's kinda strung out on drugs that you don't know what to do with but still feel kinda responsible to make sure they don't fuck up too bad?
They are compromised.
As they should.
The poll is recent.