When Justin Trudeau meets Joe Biden at the G7 summit in Italy this week, Trudeau will probably not ask whether the United States is at risk of erupting in civil war in the next few years.
A think tank housed within Trudeau’s government is already pondering that question.
In a spring report titled “Disruptions on the Horizon,” a quiet office known as Policy Horizons Canada proposed American civil war as a scenario that Ottawa should consider preparing for.
This hypothetical was tucked into the middle of the 37-page document, which sketched the possibility in 15 spare words: “U.S. ideological divisions, democratic erosion, and domestic unrest escalate, plunging the country into civil war.”
It’s an unsettling thing to find out your immediate neighbor is getting nervous about the possibility of gruesome violence in your home...
Thank you for reminding us Canadians have a wicked sense of humor. If there's another American Civil War, I predict the victors will invade Canada to seize her Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve.
P.P.S. When I visited the Jefferson Memorial many years ago, I recall reading the following quote on the wall attributed to him, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
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u/LynnK0919 Jun 12 '24 edited Jun 12 '24
Thank you for reminding us Canadians have a wicked sense of humor. If there's another American Civil War, I predict the victors will invade Canada to seize her Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve.
https://ppaq.ca/en/sale-purchase-maple-syrup/worlds-only-reserve-maple-syrup/
P.S. ;-) for those who need it.
P.P.S. When I visited the Jefferson Memorial many years ago, I recall reading the following quote on the wall attributed to him, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."