What is the best Canadian response?

Trump wants to prevent aliens from entering America from the north while doing nothing about aliens entering Canada from the south (this expected to dramatically increase under his intolerant leadership). Because Americans have ten times the population of Canada I think Canada should offer to post one extra border guard for every ten America does. This seems fair to me.

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swirlie

The best Canadian response is to do nothing at all in response to anything Trump rags on about. The USA needs to get their own house in order before they start looking at their neighbors.

Pretzel · 70-79, M

@swirlie fat chance of that (for the next 4 years)
and yes, I'm an American.

swirlie

@Pretzel
Fat chance of what?

Pretzel · 70-79, M

@swirlie putting our house in order. I suspect it's going to be a contentious 4 years.

swirlie

@Pretzel
I thought the same thing at first, but then took a step back and actually wondered if Trump's plan to clean house would make things better or much worse for Americans?

The problem is, it will take more than 4 years to fix or dismantle what needs to be addressed in US government, but if the next POTUS after Trump doesn't continue in that same direction, then nothing Trump does to clean things up actually comes to fruition because little of it will have been brought to completion in only 3 years, realistically speaking.

Now things would be in a real mess because how does the next Administration after Trump put it all back together so that it's a functional government?

What I honestly believe is that Trump will not do anything dramatic insofar as his threat to dismantle the government agencies he feels are redundant is concerned, because like a house of cards, the whole thing will just collapse if that dismantling process is attempted in the incorrect order (whatever that is).

Pretzel · 70-79, M

@swirlie I think we agree on the ultimate outcome. it's like holding your hand up and trying to stop a freight train.

He is the head of only 1/3 of the government. And while he has handpicked several of the justices in the supreme court - they still have to go by the law (ostensibly).

the civil service is gigantic. the Congress will have to go along with a lot of the changes - and they would have to kill lots of jobs which would increase unemployment.

I can imagine a lot of unrest in the Congress since they are about evenly matched and just a few "defectors" could kill a republican initiative.

yeah, these will be interesting times.

There have already been two attempts to assasinate him - and the recent United CEO murder...show people are getting antsy. And we aren't even into summer yet.

swirlie

@Pretzel
If Trump starts to make changes quickly, I mean tangible changes that people can actually see, then I think he will calm the angry masses before they get too far out of control. But I don't think he has any time to waste because as you've inferred, the natives are getting restless.