Trump EYES ANNEXATION! - The SHOCKING Reason Canada ISN'T America's 51st State
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Why did the U.S. not take over Canada in the 19th century? Is it because they didn t want to be Americans or because they were too busy trying to maintain their position as the world s most powerful country?
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Hey everybody, PJ here. Hope you're all having a good day. Greetings from windy
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central Alberta. Holy crap it's windy today. I'd like to react to a video I
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saw from the National Post that poses a question that many of us wonder about.
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Especially those of us who study a little bit of history even at a even at
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a surface level and that is why did the United States not take over Canada? And
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I don't mean this from a point of desire of you know personal opinion that I hope
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that the United States takes over Canada. I mean historically you have the most
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powerful country in the world south of us. It's a country that's been expansionist
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in the past. It's not like they you know they haven't taken territory before. You
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have places like Alaska way north. They purchased it from Russia. Then you have
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Hawaii. The whole history with that and you got many territories are all over the
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world including Guam, Puerto Rico, so on and so forth. And just like Alaska why
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didn't they purchase Canada before? You know many people will say that they tried
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that the US actually tried to invade Canada and that is partially true. They
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did invade Canada especially during the war of 1812 against Great Britain. Then
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again it wasn't really Canada. It was Britain. It was British North America.
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That's like saying the United States prior to 1776. That was not the United States.
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That was the British colonies of America. It wasn't the United States yet. The
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United States started in 1776. So same goes for Canada. It wasn't Canada. It was
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British North America. So it was really Britain. These territories were part of
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Britain. And in 1812 the United, a new brand new United States still you know
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making making an impact in the world starting to develop strength. Britain you
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know having fought them and lost during the American Revolution they were doing
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everything in their power to try to sabotage the United States and one of those
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things that they were doing was at the maritime level they were trying to block
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trade. So what I'm trying to say is the objective during the war of 1812 wasn't
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mainly to take over Canada. It was mostly to use Canada as a bargaining chip to get
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the British Empire to stop blocking them and stop their maritime blockade of
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trade against the United States. Long story short it basically explains partly
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why the United States didn't really take over Canada. And this is all important and
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relevant especially with the conversation today that President Donald Trump has started.
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Because Canada and the United States that would really be something. You get rid of
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that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like and it would
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also be much better for national security. Don't forget we basically protect Canada.
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He's obviously talking about the United States Canada border the 49th parallel. So let's
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watch this video and let's see what you all think.
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When he was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told CNN's Jake Tapper that the singular defining
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trait of his country was that it wasn't the United States. One of the ways we define ourselves most
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easily is well we're not American he said. Trudeau was roundly mocked for saying this as it's not
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tremendously impressive for a country to define itself by what it isn't. If you ask say France or Japan why
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they exist they're going to have a better answer then we're not the country next door. But Trudeau
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wasn't wrong. If you're wondering why a bunch of loosely affiliated British colonies teamed up in
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the latter half of the 19th century to govern two percent of the earth's surface the answer is
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because they didn't want to be Americans. In the 1850s it was considered a given that the United
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States would eventually come to rule all of North America. That's even what the British figured.
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They'd hold on to their North American colonies as long as they could but come on now. You've got a
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heavily armed expansionist United States snapping up new land in every direction. The smart money was
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on the idea that one by one these colonies would all throw in their lot with the U.S. Maybe you'd get
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Nova Scotia or Prince Edward Island holding out as isolated micro states but that's about it.
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And that's the thing they asked this guy Justin Trudeau. He was our last prime minister prior to
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getting Mark Carney in there. He went on a tour right before he resigned or I think it was after
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he resigned before he gave up the seat the prime minister seat. He was asked what are Canadians like
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what is it that makes you Canadians and he said well we're not Americans. That was his answer for what a
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Canadian is. And again he's not far off. That's the culture. It's the culture of loyalists. People
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who wanted to continue being a part of the crown. The Americans in 1776 during the American Revolution
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that's literally what they fought the war against was the crown against the king of England against the
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the oppression being put on them and taxation without representation from the UK to the 13 American
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colonies. However Canadians are mostly descendants of those who stayed loyal to the crown. They didn't
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want to be Americans. They did not want to get they did not want to become independent from the British.
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They wanted to stay loyal. They wanted to stay a part of the UK and that's what it is to this day.
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What's a Canadian? Well you know we're not American. They'll say well we speak two languages. Well
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that's really only true in Quebec and you know it's mostly French. It's not like it's everywhere. Like
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you come up to Alberta and someone's gonna speak French to you. You start speaking French to some
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Albertan and they might just curse you out. They might just ignore you. They might just walk away.
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There's a couple pockets here and there in New Brunswick. I think New Brunswick after Quebec. New
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Brunswick is the actual province that does have some French in it and then you have a little you
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know little pockets here and there of some Frenchies and those are less and less. Most of Canada speaks
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English. So it's not even like it's bilingual everywhere. Hell the United States is more
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bilingual than Canada is. Why? Because every single state there's a bunch of people who speak Spanish.
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Some states more than others like you take Texas. Spanish is spoken as a strong second language
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after English. Same in California. But pretty much every state Spanish is basically a second language.
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It's just not official. But the point that I'm trying to make is that bilingualism is a lot more
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common in the United States when it comes to Spanish English than it is to find French in northern British
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Colombia or Alberta. Then you have the whole free healthcare thing which they use to say that that's
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another thing that makes them different. It's not free. It's socialized healthcare and it's covered by
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the taxpayers. Anyone who works in Canada works full time. They know that if you have a say a bi-weekly
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paycheck of three thousand dollars take home pay is actually seventeen sixteen hundred dollars. So the
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government takes nearly half of your money. Every time you get that paycheck you realize that our healthcare
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is not free. You actually if you were to pay for private healthcare you would end up paying a lot
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less. The U.S. Civil War happens so they're distracted for a while. Second this guy Sir Johnny McDonald.
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Without him you don't have Canada. You just don't. He's pretty instrumental to the story. For a brief window
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of time in the 1860s all these British North American colonies that don't really like each other all that much
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or have anything to do with one another suddenly see the virtue of joining together. United they just
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might have enough economic and defensive clout to hold off the American juggernaut. As a united country
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Canada would be able to put in a bid to buy Rupert's Land the vast territory loosely managed by the Hudson's
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Bay Company and then they could convince the distant west coast colony of British Columbia a place they
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also had nothing to do with to also join its not-American confederation. Then you throw up the
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world's longest railroad put just enough mounties and cattle ranches so that it looks occupied enough
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to deter any American land grabs. Obviously the Americans could still take Canada if they wanted
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it but this would be like locking the front door. And that's what I say all the time they could have
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taken it then and they could take it now. Don't kid yourselves. Don't kid yourselves. Again I'm an
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Albertan. I don't kid myself. If America truly wanted to take all of Canada by force it could.
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Of course may I add some people will put up a fight because there's some patriotic people here who
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are brave you know and they'll put up a fight. A large percentage of Canadians might even welcome
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them as liberators because they're realizing just how bad things are under the current system that
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Canada has. And like I said another portion might fight them but realistically not only do they have the
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strongest military in the world who like it's not it would take a day or two if you're realistic
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for them to actually take over militarily. Now America has never done that you know except for the
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war of 1812 in which they really came into Canada and they invaded because they were trying to fight off
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the British influence in North America and mostly used Canada as a bargaining chip to get Great Britain
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the British Empire to stop the blockade the maritime blockade of American trade.
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That if they really want Canadian territory they can't just walk in. They've got to break a window.
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It's one of the most far-fetched schemes to build a nation ever conceived. But you know what? It
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worked. The United States took a lot of land in the 19th century. Hawaii, Puerto Rico, half of Mexico.
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Not to mention the conquest of its own frontier. But they never took Canada. And thus alternative
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United States remains a democratic transcontinental nation of immigrants but one in which the American
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revolution never happened. All right thanks for watching. Thank you for subscribing. Special thanks
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