As someone living on the mean streets of a border town with Canada, we used to walk over without even a passport and post-9/11 with passports the line has gotten hours long either way and it basically closed the border to me except for weekend trips.
My life would be better with a fully open border vs the current situation, can't imagine something more useless than a giant wall.
I would like to see evidence that the current requirements are doing any good. It is a pain in the ass to cross the border now.
God dammit Canada, stop playing 4D chess to make us pay for your wall.
I want to know what genius Canadian politician promised their constituency a wall on the southern border and they'll make the U.S. pay for it. A political masterstroke.
If you find out let us know, a good chunk of us would vote for this mystery benefactor.
Next we need walls to protect us from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, in case of Kaiju attacks!
"We need to bomb all drug labs in Atlantis and secure our beaches! Too many of our children have been injecting seeweed to get high!"
Dude, just watched a documentary about that. Pacific rim if you want to check it out.
No one is smuggling anything across that border except the Trailer Park Boys
We (Canada) do have an issue with US guns getting smuggled into Canada, but no wall (if that was even remotely possible to do, which it isn't) is going to help with that.
Canada: “I will give you $100 million of wall for you to fuck off.”
It seems like Vivek's strategy is to just be loud in these debates. Personality wise (ignoring policy) he seemed the worst of all those in the primary.
Link to video: ;https://youtu.be/vHdS8Bcz1TY?si=RHvjLgb7H_6ktTYF Skip to 1:36:40-1:38:23
Lucky for him he's running in the party that has little to no interest in policy and embraces those with awful, loud personalities.
Sarah Palin changed politics forever. The half term Governor of Alaska showed that you could make money by being an angry idiot without ever winning a second election
So he visited the border but not the country? I hope it stays that way.
Canada: okay but only if you pay for it.
We may pitch in for a wall around Alberta, it can be 'North Montana'.
Walls on both sides... hmm where have we seen that before...
My wife and I were curious about the pricing. So for context, after about 25 years the ISS cost 150bn, estimates say the border wall with Mexico would hit that price in about 5 years. Our border with Mexico is fucking nothing compared to Canada. They’ve got a river and desert to deal with. Up here we’ve got 5 giant lakes, two mountain groups (one of which isn’t terrible to cross, but is shit to build on), and once you’re past the Canadian Shield (also terrible to build on) you’ve got just so absolutely much wilderness. And you’ve gotta build a wall in Detroit
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