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Everyone relies on exports to make money.
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Yes they do but all Canada can manage to export is raw goods, which means we have to rely on others for both income and manufactured goods. Unless we change the way we do things Canada is China's bitch.
Look what happened to the areas that are industrial, they are the areas that absorb most of the equalization payments and have trouble balancing a budget.
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Immigration is a good thing to be reliant on when your country prides itself on being multicultural.
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Being reliant on immigration means you have a dying population and the new population will have no loyalty to Canada or our "culture". Multiculturalism is forced down our throats at gun point, someone says they are against it and they are labeled racist. It is also a fools dream, sure multiculturalism was working with European cultures but no one ever thought to think about if the major cultures/religions could get along, the answer is no.
You base that on the assumption that immigrants are not loyal to their country at all, our population is not so much dying as it is moving away and in its own way can be beneficial to Canada by encouraging others to either visit or move to Canada. People say they are against immigration all the time, most of them are ignored because their favorite claim is that they are 'stealing our jobs'. When was the last ethnic war in Canada? I am pretty sure we have different cultures living right beside each other.
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#23 in numbers for military, of those above us all but ~10 are completely number reliant countries
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We can barely keep a few thousand personnel overseas. Without the USA backing us, Canada is a sitting duck.
We are able to keep them there, it is the peoples commitment to it that is the problem. For our military a few thousand is a fair number.
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We have more influence because of our history of fighting for peace and working towards peaceful solutions at every chance, people respect what we say.
Granted Canada started the UN peacekeeping but now we barely contribute to that, actions speak louder than words and all Canada has been doing lately for peacekeeping is blowing hot air. If we want be able to call ourselves peacekeepers we have to up the amount of peacekeeping we do. There is no such thing as "moral power" as the Liberals were calling us, its just a way of saying we have no political, economical or military power in the world.[/quote]
We contribute a lot to peacekeeping still, there are just less jobs and call for jobs that require thousands of soldiers being surged into countries. Look at who other countries are looking to as a model of economic stability. Politically we have had influence for a very long time. And we have not cared about a large military in our history, we had trouble just forming a long term one in the early days of our country.
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