by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
There is a little bit of buzz in Canada at the moment about the potental transformation of the United States into a “Right wing dictatorship” by 2030. I don’t think it’s going to be that simple, but here are some reasons for the Great White North to seriously worry about their brothers and sisters to the South.
- Form Follows Function
If the United States becomes an illiberal democracy like Russia, we could be talking about “Little Blue Men” seizing a bit of Canada here and there at some point in the 2030s or 2040s. As it becomes more and more clear (in secret) to President Pompeo or DeSantis that the States will become too hot to live in, they will turn north. So, in the end, Canada might be attacked for its abstract “resource” of simply being easier to live in when the planet begins to boil. - American Refugees
If there’s a civil war in the United States, millions of Americans are going to become political refugees and they’re going to pour over the Canadian border looking for refuge. This could happen a lot sooner than you might think, depending on events. Anytime from now to as late as 2025 and America could go tits up, bomb itself into the Stone Age and people will plunge into Canada looking for succor. This would dramatically change Canada. - A Major Redrawing of North American Borders
Just as the US was nervous about being drawn into a Canadian civil war the last time Quebec wanted to leave Canada, so, too, will Canada be drawn into any American Civil War. Probably, the country will be used as a staging ground for EU forces who might want to help out Blue States. But if the Second American Civil War has a far more messy endgame, you could see Blue States swoop in and politely tell Canada to form the United States of Canada in reponse to the creation of Trumplandia.
