As an Anon in Canada, and I've been following Q since the first post, I've been pretty good at calling things.

Sorry this went into a longer rant.

We won't be joining the US.

The whole point is to hammer on Justin Trudeau and make him look even weaker. He's already lost the next election, by the looks of it by a damning landslide and now Trump is ramping up the pressure. Why? Because before Trudeau came in and resurrected the Liberal Party for the Cabal, it had collapsed so miserably it should have been dropped as an officially recognized party.

With what Trump has said, and what I believe is going to happen economically, Canada has no choice but to follow suit. What happens if Trump ends income tax? He's promised to end it on over time already. Why the fuck would I stay here?! Fairly sure I can figure out the health insurance cost if I can make an extra 35% by moving 50 fucking miles!

What just happened? Our opposition leader of the conservative party just said that he'll consider ending income tax on overtime.

The Shot Heard Around The World, was the starting gun.

Trump is going to eliminate 90% of the federal government. They're going to obliterate taxes and regulations. They're going to slap down states and municipalities that are NIMBY anti-development, anti-business. The US is going to launch, and any country that doesn't change fast is going to be left behind.

Canada has no choice. That's what Trump is saying when he calls Canada the 51st state. We're so intertwined it doesn't matter.

I've said on here before. With how constitutional Trump is going, he's going to look at Canada and deal with us constitutionally. We're not a Federation like the US. We're a Confederation. Our provincial rights are stronger than your state's rights ... or at least they're supposed to be without Trudy attacking them for a decade. He wants to deal with the Provinces individually to leverage against our federal government.

The cajoling on tarrifs is to demonstrably separate the strong from the weak. The Ontario Premier said if the US puts tarrifs on us we can tear up the power sale agreements. We've got other politicians saying that's dangerous talk, Trump responded by saying that's fine, and later that there's a deal to be made!

Trumps complaining about the trade imbalance, because the value isn't there. We've got a reason. Ontario has a reason, we sell you cheap fucking electricity. We sell you cheap minerals. Cheap lumber. Yeah you owe us money, be our guest and shop somewhere else. Power your own lights, run your own factories, power Detroit yourselves if you wanna pinch pennies and cost yourselves dollars.

So what's the point here?

Canada as a net exporter doesn't need an income tax. We need an export tax.

CAD is 0.70 to the dollar. We can slap 25% export on our lumber, and we still beat you on price. We beat you on price when we have shitwad liberals trying to kill our lumber industry with taxes on stumps on top of mandatory replanting.

Why the fuck aren't we taxing our lumber exports. If we got the liberals out of our way (which Trump is helping with) the US will never be able to compete with us on the price of lumber.

TLDR: Trump is leading the way, the 51st joke is Trump literally saying "like it or not, you're coming too."

100%, very well said.