The other issues you identify involve purely domestic political questions, and we have a hundred and seventy one year tradition (longer than your own) of solving our political problems without violence (longer than that of the United States), so when it comes to our internal politics, we need absolutely no help from the US military. That leaves and external aggressor. So please identify the country we have to worry about.

Maybe he’s on a university network?

But, I’m guessing you’re so over-taken by Obama Derangement Syndrome that you didn’t even think to do basic research.

I don’t know what school teaches logic that says Obama didn’t say so because there’s a quote by McCain that said similar things concerning Georgia and the UN but I’d like to know which one for it’ll be good at indoctrination.

Obama and his ODS supporters will be needing such resources in the time soon to come.

In my universe, the United States has virtually no troops in Canada, the visiting forces stationed here have no role in aiding the civil power, we have mutual defence arrangements, and Canada has, in any case, no enemies with either the interest or the means to make an attack on us that could bring down our government.

So tell me about the universe you live in. In what way does Canada depend on American military force to sustain our government where you live?

It is guaranteed that you live in a different universe, John. A parallel one that touches upon the verse the Leftists live on, true, but your own since you’re from Canada, not Europe, and Canada has their own way of seeing and doing things.

As for telling you Canada’s reliance on the US military for 80% of the bulk freight traded between nations via the high seas, that’s not something of an attack on Canada the “patria” for all other nations rely upon the US Navy to shed the treasure and blood to keep their merchant marines safe from pirates and other threats.

In our world, John, national boundaries are kept solely by the use of force or the threat of it. In your world, John, the United Nations and the international brotherhood sustains national boundaries in a sort of stasis with the only threat being from US invasions.

This means that Canada can sustain their social welfare programs by cutting their military to an infinitesimal size compared to what would be required to actually protect Canadian borders or sea trade. Even still, Canada has problems paying for such programs or they have internal resentment towards provinces like Quebec or the capital because provinces like Manitoba or Alberta pay a disproportionate share of the costs of government while having less (proportional) representation in the government of Canada due to population size disenfranchisement.

Without the US as both an ally and military protector, John, the nation of Canada would have a far larger military and a far larger national security risk from both the NW and the South. You would be concerned more about land grabs and destabilization than over internal energy matters like carbon emissions or CAND.

But it doesn’t have any relevance anyway. You still haven’t come close to showing that we face any danger, internal or external, from which the United States protects us, or from which only the United States can protect us.

I also deleted the comment you tried to make after the banning. Interesting that you managed to change your IP number so quickly.