Is Canada Paranoid? Oh yea...
Ruxpercnd @ Sat Apr 12, 2008 5:22 pm
Bacardi4206 Bacardi4206:
Ruxpercnd Ruxpercnd:
Isn't Canada getting a little psycho about the Arctic? Arctic sovereignty? You know... if you had people living there I could see it. But... getting your panties in a knot over arctic ice is.... well... paranoid.
Do you understand what is in the Artic? Vast riches, and oil. So much Natural resources that could really boost the Canadian Economy. Yeah, sorry for being a little psycho.
Every single country is being as Psycho as Canada is about the Artic, 20 years ago everybody diddn't want anything to do with the Artic, except for Canada. Now, everybody wants a piece of it. 20 years ago, Canadians were considered people of the Artic, well the Inuits were but they are also Canadian. Now everybody considers themselves the people of the Artic
.Canada-proper already has vast resources... more oil than you can remove, gold, diamonds, anything and everything. But Canada permits corporations to extract the people's resources at below market rates. ... and no royalty payments like the folks in Alaska get. If there is anything underwater in the arctic, it should be handled according to international law. All I ask for is compliance with International Law as it exists now or as it is determined in the future. But Canada even wants to restrict ship passage. Well, Libya tried to restrict passage in the Gulf of Sidra, and those crazy Americans called them on it.
If there are resources in the Ocean, then all the nations of the world are going to have to agree on how that is handled. And yes, soon we will have to talk about the Moon. There is an American flag on the moon. Does that mean that we can claim the entire rock? Well, we didn't.
I guess we need to develop a supra-nationalism that has teeth.
I am thinking that when the British moved into Canada (and America), that they weren't also claiming the North Pole. So where did this claim come from?
America gave up the Panama Canal because we determined it was not defendable... and it was a Jimmy Carter kind of thing to do.
When the Japanese invaded the Aleutian Islands, we rushed out to defend it. I think that was a stupid thing to do. We should have encouraged the Japanese to send more troops to suffer out there. But at least we did defend that territory.
Somehow, the threat of Canadians demanding tribute for passage in the Arctic Ocean reminds me of the Barbary Pirates... the kind of thing didn't set well with Americans back then and won't sit well with us now.
... and Canada seems to have really gone mental on this thing.
kenmore @ Sat Apr 12, 2008 5:30 pm
If it belonged to the United States.. they would have missles on it and protect it 100% .... Its ours so we protect it... paranoid.? like the US is of running out of water and oil?
Public_Domain @ Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:58 am
Chumley @ Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:43 am
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
Chumley Chumley:
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
lostalex lostalex:
sandorski sandorski:
Paranoid? Psycho? Ask again when we start invading other Nations based on Lies.
hmmm, the natives might have something to say about that... lol. oh n/m, don't wanna burst yur little "Canada is the only just and right nation" on earth paradigm.
We aren't better. Let's just say...
We're less worse,
In the 21st century so far, I've yet to see Canada fuck up even 1/10th as badly as America...
that could be because we have 1/10th of thier population...
The retarded "1/10th" belief has no place here, how many people are in a nation doesn't equal how much it's government will fuck our world up.
Oh, I don't know. You could argue that having ten times the population gives them ten times the tax base to produce ten times the military strength that can be projected ten times more into regions that according to some we have no business being.
Benoit @ Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:02 am
Selling an information technology and keeping the right to use the information!? Canada is simply not credulous.
Arrow @ Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:21 pm
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
In the 21st century so far, I've yet to see Canada fuck up even 1/10th as badly as America...
Talk about damning with faint praise!
Benoit @ Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:26 pm
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
In the 21st century so far, I've yet to see Canada fuck up even 1/10th as badly as America...
1/9 is the ratio of Canada-US populations; 1/10, the ratio of their GDP.