PJ The Belt - July 02, 2025


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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00:00:00.040 Hey everybody, PJ here. Hope you're all having a good day. Greetings from windy
00:00:05.980 central Alberta. Holy crap it's windy today. I'd like to react to a video I 0.95
00:00:11.400 saw from the National Post that poses a question that many of us wonder about.
00:00:17.520 Especially those of us who study a little bit of history even at a even at
00:00:23.120 a surface level and that is why did the United States not take over Canada? And
00:00:30.380 I don't mean this from a point of desire of you know personal opinion that I hope
00:00:34.880 that the United States takes over Canada. I mean historically you have the most
00:00:39.080 powerful country in the world south of us. It's a country that's been expansionist
00:00:44.180 in the past. It's not like they you know they haven't taken territory before. You
00:00:49.100 have places like Alaska way north. They purchased it from Russia. Then you have
00:00:54.920 Hawaii. The whole history with that and you got many territories are all over the
00:00:59.720 world including Guam, Puerto Rico, so on and so forth. And just like Alaska why
00:01:05.380 didn't they purchase Canada before? You know many people will say that they tried
00:01:09.800 that the US actually tried to invade Canada and that is partially true. They
00:01:15.460 did invade Canada especially during the war of 1812 against Great Britain. Then
00:01:22.280 again it wasn't really Canada. It was Britain. It was British North America.
00:01:26.140 That's like saying the United States prior to 1776. That was not the United States.
00:01:31.180 That was the British colonies of America. It wasn't the United States yet. The 0.73
00:01:35.700 United States started in 1776. So same goes for Canada. It wasn't Canada. It was 0.91
00:01:42.140 British North America. So it was really Britain. These territories were part of
00:01:46.520 Britain. And in 1812 the United, a new brand new United States still you know
00:01:51.380 making making an impact in the world starting to develop strength. Britain you
00:01:57.500 know having fought them and lost during the American Revolution they were doing
00:02:02.200 everything in their power to try to sabotage the United States and one of those 0.97
00:02:06.820 things that they were doing was at the maritime level they were trying to block
00:02:10.400 trade. So what I'm trying to say is the objective during the war of 1812 wasn't
00:02:15.120 mainly to take over Canada. It was mostly to use Canada as a bargaining chip to get
00:02:21.920 the British Empire to stop blocking them and stop their maritime blockade of
00:02:28.600 trade against the United States. Long story short it basically explains partly
00:02:35.240 why the United States didn't really take over Canada. And this is all important and
00:02:42.840 relevant especially with the conversation today that President Donald Trump has started.
00:02:47.960 Because Canada and the United States that would really be something. You get rid of
00:02:54.040 that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like and it would
00:02:59.080 also be much better for national security. Don't forget we basically protect Canada.
00:03:02.920 He's obviously talking about the United States Canada border the 49th parallel. So let's
00:03:09.800 watch this video and let's see what you all think.
00:03:11.800 When he was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told CNN's Jake Tapper that the singular defining
00:03:23.080 trait of his country was that it wasn't the United States. One of the ways we define ourselves most
00:03:28.280 easily is well we're not American he said. Trudeau was roundly mocked for saying this as it's not
00:03:33.880 tremendously impressive for a country to define itself by what it isn't. If you ask say France or Japan why
00:03:39.720 they exist they're going to have a better answer then we're not the country next door. But Trudeau
00:03:44.760 wasn't wrong. If you're wondering why a bunch of loosely affiliated British colonies teamed up in
00:03:49.320 the latter half of the 19th century to govern two percent of the earth's surface the answer is
00:03:55.160 because they didn't want to be Americans. In the 1850s it was considered a given that the United
00:04:00.360 States would eventually come to rule all of North America. That's even what the British figured.
00:04:05.080 They'd hold on to their North American colonies as long as they could but come on now. You've got a 0.94
00:04:10.280 heavily armed expansionist United States snapping up new land in every direction. The smart money was
00:04:16.520 on the idea that one by one these colonies would all throw in their lot with the U.S. Maybe you'd get
00:04:21.640 Nova Scotia or Prince Edward Island holding out as isolated micro states but that's about it.
00:04:26.680 And that's the thing they asked this guy Justin Trudeau. He was our last prime minister prior to
00:04:33.000 getting Mark Carney in there. He went on a tour right before he resigned or I think it was after
00:04:40.440 he resigned before he gave up the seat the prime minister seat. He was asked what are Canadians like
00:04:48.200 what is it that makes you Canadians and he said well we're not Americans. That was his answer for what a
00:04:54.760 Canadian is. And again he's not far off. That's the culture. It's the culture of loyalists. People
00:05:02.520 who wanted to continue being a part of the crown. The Americans in 1776 during the American Revolution
00:05:10.040 that's literally what they fought the war against was the crown against the king of England against the
00:05:16.760 the oppression being put on them and taxation without representation from the UK to the 13 American
00:05:25.720 colonies. However Canadians are mostly descendants of those who stayed loyal to the crown. They didn't 0.88
00:05:34.680 want to be Americans. They did not want to get they did not want to become independent from the British.
00:05:41.320 They wanted to stay loyal. They wanted to stay a part of the UK and that's what it is to this day.
00:05:48.520 What's a Canadian? Well you know we're not American. They'll say well we speak two languages. Well
00:05:55.320 that's really only true in Quebec and you know it's mostly French. It's not like it's everywhere. Like
00:06:02.120 you come up to Alberta and someone's gonna speak French to you. You start speaking French to some
00:06:07.480 Albertan and they might just curse you out. They might just ignore you. They might just walk away.
00:06:12.120 There's a couple pockets here and there in New Brunswick. I think New Brunswick after Quebec. New
00:06:17.560 Brunswick is the actual province that does have some French in it and then you have a little you
00:06:24.920 know little pockets here and there of some Frenchies and those are less and less. Most of Canada speaks
00:06:30.280 English. So it's not even like it's bilingual everywhere. Hell the United States is more 1.00
00:06:36.040 bilingual than Canada is. Why? Because every single state there's a bunch of people who speak Spanish.
00:06:42.280 Some states more than others like you take Texas. Spanish is spoken as a strong second language
00:06:49.080 after English. Same in California. But pretty much every state Spanish is basically a second language.
00:06:56.360 It's just not official. But the point that I'm trying to make is that bilingualism is a lot more
00:07:01.080 common in the United States when it comes to Spanish English than it is to find French in northern British
00:07:08.440 Colombia or Alberta. Then you have the whole free healthcare thing which they use to say that that's
00:07:14.840 another thing that makes them different. It's not free. It's socialized healthcare and it's covered by
00:07:20.520 the taxpayers. Anyone who works in Canada works full time. They know that if you have a say a bi-weekly
00:07:27.800 paycheck of three thousand dollars take home pay is actually seventeen sixteen hundred dollars. So the
00:07:34.360 government takes nearly half of your money. Every time you get that paycheck you realize that our healthcare
00:07:42.200 is not free. You actually if you were to pay for private healthcare you would end up paying a lot
00:07:48.680 less. The U.S. Civil War happens so they're distracted for a while. Second this guy Sir Johnny McDonald.
00:07:54.760 Without him you don't have Canada. You just don't. He's pretty instrumental to the story. For a brief window
00:08:00.920 of time in the 1860s all these British North American colonies that don't really like each other all that much
00:08:06.280 or have anything to do with one another suddenly see the virtue of joining together. United they just
00:08:12.440 might have enough economic and defensive clout to hold off the American juggernaut. As a united country
00:08:18.200 Canada would be able to put in a bid to buy Rupert's Land the vast territory loosely managed by the Hudson's
00:08:23.960 Bay Company and then they could convince the distant west coast colony of British Columbia a place they
00:08:29.320 also had nothing to do with to also join its not-American confederation. Then you throw up the
00:08:35.880 world's longest railroad put just enough mounties and cattle ranches so that it looks occupied enough
00:08:41.320 to deter any American land grabs. Obviously the Americans could still take Canada if they wanted
00:08:47.320 it but this would be like locking the front door. And that's what I say all the time they could have
00:08:52.280 taken it then and they could take it now. Don't kid yourselves. Don't kid yourselves. Again I'm an
00:08:58.040 Albertan. I don't kid myself. If America truly wanted to take all of Canada by force it could. 0.53
00:09:05.640 Of course may I add some people will put up a fight because there's some patriotic people here who
00:09:12.200 are brave you know and they'll put up a fight. A large percentage of Canadians might even welcome
00:09:17.880 them as liberators because they're realizing just how bad things are under the current system that
00:09:23.400 Canada has. And like I said another portion might fight them but realistically not only do they have the
00:09:30.280 strongest military in the world who like it's not it would take a day or two if you're realistic
00:09:37.720 for them to actually take over militarily. Now America has never done that you know except for the
00:09:44.760 war of 1812 in which they really came into Canada and they invaded because they were trying to fight off
00:09:52.360 the British influence in North America and mostly used Canada as a bargaining chip to get Great Britain
00:09:59.240 the British Empire to stop the blockade the maritime blockade of American trade.
00:10:05.800 That if they really want Canadian territory they can't just walk in. They've got to break a window.
00:10:12.040 It's one of the most far-fetched schemes to build a nation ever conceived. But you know what? It
00:10:17.480 worked. The United States took a lot of land in the 19th century. Hawaii, Puerto Rico, half of Mexico.
00:10:23.240 Not to mention the conquest of its own frontier. But they never took Canada. And thus alternative
00:10:28.680 United States remains a democratic transcontinental nation of immigrants but one in which the American 0.72
00:10:34.600 revolution never happened. All right thanks for watching. Thank you for subscribing. Special thanks
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