New poll shows a majority of Canadians want to ban citizens from serving in the U.S. military.

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    I hope we are slowly winding down integration with them, ideally without them knowing

    Once the dust settles, we’ll see whom we deem trustworthy south of us

    Oh, and we are currently not accepting applications to join Confederation, sorry aboot that eh

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      20 hours ago

      It’s crazy we’re able to do this.

      Trump could have done surprise gunboat diplomacy in 2017, taken Canada and vassilised Europe. Nobody was prepared to resist it in any way, shape or form. Instead, he took a Western elite deeply conditioned to always mindlessly trust the US, and he spent a decade gradually reconditioning them to distrust him and buckle down for hostile actions.

      “We’re very lucky they’re so fucking stupid” - Anonymous Ukrainian soldier.

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      I’m guessing if you’re doing it for CSIS, you get some kind of waiver from a minister saying you can do certian illegal stuff, along with fake papers.

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    As a Canadian, I’m amazed that a majority wish for more freedom-restricting laws because of hurt feelings.

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      I think it causes a bit more than “hurt feelings” when another country publicly says it wants to annex another country.

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        There still shouldn’t “be a law” to ban Canadians from serving in an ally’s military. Or from seeking employment wherever one chooses.

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          Serving in a foreign military involves swearing loyalty to that foreign country. What happens when that country attacks ours?

          If one wanted to find work as a mercenary providing military skills on contract, that could be a different issue. But that’s not what you’re proposing.

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            Serving in a foreign military involves swearing loyalty to that foreign country.

            dude…the head of the PC party while l’il PP moved to AB is a US citizen, as he was when he tried to run for Prime Minister.
            He said he was going to drop his US citizenship.

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          It’s called National Security, and that’s one of the reasons no one tells you anything

          If you can’t see(lion) past your own hurt feelings, then obviously you’re just a troll or russobot

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      19 hours ago

      I mean, that’s how that kind of policy usually worked.

      That said, how would you feel about a Canadian joining the North Korean or Russian militaries? You’d think there’d be some line where a person is too much of an enemy to also be a citizen.