Well for one thing, you'll find out how many Canadians are willing to use a gun in defence of their country, despite very few being invested in the American gun culture.
"What MAGA all agree" is a fool's errand, like most universal consensus questions.
But here are a few high points:
Some genuinely believe the rhetoric about how Trans/brown/non-Christian/etc. people are destroying the American way of life, jobs, safety, sports, the economy, and whatever they get pointed to at any given moment.
Some are outright racists, bullies, and fascists, and absolutely love what Trump is doing right now.
Many are just frustrated with their lot in life, and are willing to try anything (except personal action) to improve things.
Many more feel like they're just a few paycheques or a small windfall away from living the rich life like Musk et al. As about 90% of lottery winners can attest, winning $10M or so doesn't make you obscenely wealthy, and it's still pretty easy to piss it all away. They have no concept of the difference between "rich enough to not work" and "rich enough to own multiple superyachts."
Most importantly, a large subset of this last group overlaps with the others, and believe that they only way for them to get ahead is by climbing over the bodies of others.
Scott Moe is a hate-driven, Trump-loving knee-jerk fascist. His entire leadershipnhas beem defined by sucking up to Kenney, Smith, and Poilievre, trying to prove that he can play in the deep end of the fascist wading pool.
Well, Germany has the same problem as the US: Musk.
Elon has been pouring his support (and god knows how much illicit money) behind the AfD, to get fascists elected there. Same in Canada, same in the UK.
So he's going to 'take some time to figure out his next moves' while doing the same thing but surreptitiously, while Musk throws some pocket change at him.
A nazi isn't going to walk away from the opportunity to hurt people.
Your anger is justified, and I thought a lot about this, but I stand by it.
On September 11 2001, the people of Gander NL opened their hearts and their homes to planeloads of people who couldn't land in the US. Earlier this year, Canadian firefighters were in California, helping fight the wildfires there. In 1959, Canadian engineers and scientists flocked to the US to help build the fledgling NASA and get to the moon. Who was down helping sort through the wreckage after Katrina, after Milton, after a dozen other natural disasters? That's right, Canada - your closest ally. In 2016, when Trump was first elected, I offered to sponsor a number of my US friends (made when I was working in California under NAFTA) if they came to Canada as immigrants, asylum-seekers, or refugees.
And make no mistake - the US has had our back almost as reliably, if only because it's easier to help out when you have ten times the population. You were here last summer helping with our wildfires, as Jasper burned, and we're beyond grateful.
But now your president - your democratically elected leader - has declared economic war on us, with the explicit intent of taking over our country! It's more than a slap in the face, it's an outright assault. And now that Canadians are looking back on the last 80 years or so, we're realizing that we've given up far too much autonomy and identity to our loudmouth friend who just betrayed us.
So I'm sorry, but I'm getting out of this abusive relationship. I'm not standing for it anymore. It's going to hurt us like hell, but we need to do it to survive as a nation.
This is the thing - if we take in the people who are going to suffer the most, we're taking in the people with the most incentive to fix your country at all costs. If the only people left are Trump supporters and the other 30% or so who can survive under his regime, then he'll just get stronger and stronger.
This is a key moment in history. Stay and fight. Defeat the Nazis at home before it's too late. If you're willing to give up on your country and doom the rest of the world, then I don't know what to say.
I've been saying for years (decades?) that we need to stop treating the US like a friend. At the very best, they're a giant that may roll over in their sleep and crush us.
But now, the US has openly declared (economic) war on us, and Trump still keeps talking about making us the 51st state.
We need to swallow the pain and block the US as much as humanly possible. Ban immigration from the US - including cross-border married couples and asylum-seekers. Visas owned by Americans working in Canada will not be renewed on expiration. Start enforcing CanCon laws again, across all media (esp. streaming platforms). Deny access to Canada for all pro-fascist organizations. Fox News and Newsmax? Gone.
This isn't about Trump's stupid tariffs, it's about what he intends to use them for - leverage to take over Canada. We've been too complacent and complicit for too long, but it's time to stand, united, at our southern border and say "you shall not pass."
Well for one thing, you'll find out how many Canadians are willing to use a gun in defence of their country, despite very few being invested in the American gun culture.
Also, it would likely be the beginning of WWIII.