Disheartening, but true....
You think you can vote your way out of Canada's problems?

90 of 🇨🇦's 105 Senators are appointed by Trudeau. They serve for life (until age 75). And then there's all the woke judges that are embedded in the system.... You're not gonna vote them out either.

No matter where you look in the Canadian system, the rot is embedded so deep that it makes your head spin... and there's nothing anyone can do to reverse it.

In theory, fixing this dilemma would require re-opening the constitution to solve these obvious design flaws, but in reality that's a non-starter too. It's such a complicated process that you quickly realize that 🇨🇦's constitution was designed to frustrate attempts by "we the people" to make changes.

Read up on what happened to the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords - many of the changes they tried to make were awful (blatant WEF-type stuff), but the process is illuminating to understand what we would face if we wanted to make changes to this broken system - and bear in mind that those attempts at opening the constitution were led by the govt (not a citizen-led effort), and it still failed.

Even if the public was on board with changing our constitutional structure, constitutional reform would go absolutely nowhere, especially with Trudeau's judges and Senators hanging over the process, and that's before we deal with all the provincial obstacles that mirror many of the problems we face at the federal level - it's not like the federal govt could make changes to the constitution without the provinces signing off on it. Plus there's all the special interest groups that also have to sign off on constitutional changes. 😵‍💫

And would constitutional reform to rein in the power of the govt get enough public support to meet the required threshold? Consider all the citizens who have a vested interest in preserving the status quo at the expense of everyone else because they work for our bloated govt, or get govt contracts, subsidies, or welfare, or because they benefit in some way from protectionist regulations.

The Canadian system was designed to keep citizens at arm's length -- that's what our infamous constitutional clause "peace, order, and good governance" actually means -- it's a euphemism for a carefully controlled top-down version of "democracy" -- there's nothing "we the people" about it. The very people whose power needs to be reigned in or who benefit from the current broken system are also the gatekeepers whose approval we need to make change to the status quo. Good luck.

The idea of 🇨🇦 merging with the 🇺🇸 is a lifeline - a chance to give ourselves a constitution that actually serves the people rather than the govt. And simultaneously (as part of the conditions for joining the US), it would provide an opportunity to demand some much needed changes to the American system to rein in the relentless centralization of power going on there, in violation of their Founding Fathers's vision. Win-win.

But I doubt it will happen, partially for the same reasons why it's virtually impossible to reform the Canadian constitution, and partially because so many Canadians don't understand how the Canadian system is structured (they project what they know about the US system onto our own) and thus mistakenly think they can vote their way out of this mess by changing the Prime Minister and putting a different party in power.

... But even if we could get past all those hurdles, I wouldn't pin too much hope on Trump's offer because the Republicans might actually back out of the idea once they realize that, in view of Canada's socialist voting history (and our obsession with socialized health care), adding Canada to the United States would probably decisively tip the 🇺🇸 electoral college into the hands of the Democrats for generations. And so, the Canadian Voter might actually be the poison pill that scuttles the whole thing before it ever really gets off the ground. 🤷‍♂️

In other words, we're in a bit of a pickle.

But the first step in finding a solution is taking off the rose-tinted glasses and fully understanding the nature of the problems confronting us.
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