Shatner Calls for U.S. to join Canada as 11th Province

[HDGristle]

https://www.the-independent.com/arts...-b2748409.html

Novel approach. Who here wants to be Canadian?

[tommy156]

We'd make a lovely 11th province. Finally get decent healthcare too.

[txdot-guy]

WooHoo, parliamentary politics. I’m in!

[eyecu2]

I like it that being a ho' isn't really illegal in most parts of candada- so there's that. - plus they don't have the monthly school shootings there like they do here. Seems like a better plan

[HDGristle]

[bambino]

Originally Posted by tommy156

We'd make a lovely 11th province. Finally get decent healthcare too.

Canadians have traditionally felt proud of their health care system, but today, many struggle to access care.

Canada ranked 7 among 10 high-income countries according to the 2023 Commonwealth Fund survey, which tracks the performance of leading health systems across five key areas: access to care, care process, administrative efficiency, equity and health outcomes.
In the same survey, Canada ranked last in access to primary health care. The proportion of Canadian adults with access to a primary care provider declined from 93% in 2016 to 86%.
Canada also ranked last in people's ability to get a same- or next-day appointment to see a doctor or nurse.

[bambino]

Mebbe Captain Kirk should beam himself to Alberta!


https://x.com/tablesalt13/status/192...091732166?s=42

https://x.com/sydfizzard/status/1921...206333609?s=42

[bambino]

Canada is the only G7 country that doesn’t manufacture its own home grown brand of automobiles. Instead we’ve piggybacked on U.S. brands that are now being moved back to America. We have failed to innovate and failed to compete, and we have become the architect of our own demise.

Of course — Canada never builds anything. We simply tax our citizens to provide them with basic necessities. That's what our hundreds of bllions of dollars in taxes go towards.

Why would we spend any money on things like infrastructure, transit, or industry? Other counties have built tens of thousands of kilometers in transit, factories, nuclear and more in the last 10-20 years. Canada? Essentially the exact same as it was 20 years ago.

The one thing we do have is natural resources. Oil, gas, potash, timber, gold, and uranium to name a few. But the expansion of these industries has been essentially stagnant due to federal policy.

So we don't build anything, and we limit what resources we can sell. Seems pretty stupid but explains why our economy is a disaster and we have almost no "Canadian" brand anything.


I think Spock has to talk some sense into Captain Kirk.

[tommy156]

Originally Posted by bambino

Canadians have traditionally felt proud of their health care system, but today, many struggle to access care.

Canada ranked 7 among 10 high-income countries according to the 2023 Commonwealth Fund survey, which tracks the performance of leading health systems across five key areas: access to care, care process, administrative efficiency, equity and health outcomes.
In the same survey, Canada ranked last in access to primary health care. The proportion of Canadian adults with access to a primary care provider declined from 93% in 2016 to 86%.
Canada also ranked last in people's ability to get a same- or next-day appointment to see a doctor or nurse.

That's nothing but a 10+ year-old Fox News talking point. It's never been based on reality. Canadians have a far better healthcare system than we do.

[Devo]

I watched Kirk in an interview, he's not capable of understanding the big issues, he was pretty vapid, has opinions, but like most old liberals, they don't actually understand them or know why they believe as they do.

Its a cute idea.

Give up our Constitution and its amendments?

No, not for me, Canada is a colony, not a real country, at least until we end their relationship with the UK and set it straight.