Wall off Canada, eh?

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I'm going to be upfront; this is a hotly debated political issue and will likely spin out of control here. But it needs to be discussed:

Presidential candidate wants to wall off Canada.

I know, many of you will say "Too late" or "Aboot time" but it needs to be done. The article points out how it might prevent the spread of Poutine and other nasty food items.
 
Is he trying to appease Canada by stopping the flow of US draft dodgers into Canada?
 
Wahahahaha...we've been quietly infiltrating your society for decades...it's too late for walls.
 
JeffDG said:
Wahahahaha...we've been quietly infiltrating your society for decades...it's too late for walls.
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There is a Tim Horton's not more than two blocks from my house!

But, if you think a wall will work, ask the UK about how well the English Channel is protecting them from undocumented immigrants...
 
Yeah, shouldn't have any problem putting a wall in Lake Superior and Huron, and the St. Clair, and...
 
Where will the Detroit thugs sell illegal guns? This is a terrible idea.

Free Canada. It's not even a real country anyway.
 
Walker's Wall would pass right through the public library!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11145348

There are many other interesting border oddities to consider. Some homes, for example, are situated such that the parents' bedroom is technically in one country, while the eldest daughter's might be in the other.
 
I thought this was an article in the Onion!
 
While I do think the idea is much ado about nothing . . . his comment seemed like it was taken out of context. He said it's a valid item to look into given that law enforcement in some of the northern states which border Canada have expressed concern. The media seems to be making it out like he wanted to keep Canadians in their own country (which should be done with those silly canucks anyway), when it was really more about the threat of Canada being used a go-between for illegal activity from other nations. Either way, a wall won't likely work there any better than it does for US-Mexico and the Great Lakes are another show stopper.
 
The wall will protect us from ourselves,will have to think twice ,about sneaking across the border to buy overpriced Canadian whisky and smokes.
 
SoonerAviator said:
While I do think the idea is much ado about nothing . . . his comment seemed like it was taken out of context. He said it's a valid item to look into given that law enforcement in some of the northern states which border Canada have expressed concern. The media seems to be making it out like he wanted to keep Canadians in their own country (which should be done with those silly canucks anyway), when it was really more about the threat of Canada being used a go-between for illegal activity from other nations. Either way, a wall won't likely work there any better than it does for US-Mexico and the Great Lakes are another show stopper.
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The context was he was pandering to xenophobic supporters who are paranoid of "foreigners".

The media, twitter, and anyone with more than 2-firing brain cells is correct for laughing at him.

We don't have enough money to repair bridges and roads, and now he wants to investigate walls along Canada.
 
JoseCuervo said:
The context was he was pandering to xenophobic supporters who are paranoid of "foreigners".

The media, twitter, and anyone with more than 2-firing brain cells is correct for laughing at him.

We don't have enough money to repair bridges and roads, and now he wants to investigate walls along Canada.
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Bolded for emphasis. So if he "panders" to the constituents by investigating the need/feasibility, what was wrong with that? Should he have just said that all of the xenophobes/law enforcement's concerns aren't worth considering regardless of merit? The media made mountains out of mole hills. If he had said he intends to secure our borders with walls in Mexico and Canada, with armed guards 24/7, then we can call the guy a looney. As long as he came back later and said, "well, we investigated it and it turns out walls would be ineffective and cost prohibitive", what harm was done?
 
If I'm currently on Manitoulin Island doesn't that mean I'm stuck here?
 
SoonerAviator said:
Bolded for emphasis. So if he "panders" to the constituents by investigating the need/feasibility, what was wrong with that? Should he have just said that all of the xenophobes/law enforcement's concerns aren't worth considering regardless of merit? The media made mountains out of mole hills. If he had said he intends to secure our borders with walls in Mexico and Canada, with armed guards 24/7, then we can call the guy a looney. As long as he came back later and said, "well, we investigated it and it turns out walls would be ineffective and cost prohibitive", what harm was done?
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None, really, except to his campaign. Even pretending to entertain such a notion as walling off Canada makes George W. Bush look like Einstein compared to Walker.

Rich
 
RJM62 said:
None, really, except to his campaign. Even pretending to entertain such a notion as walling off Canada makes George W. Bush look like Einstein compared to Walker.

Rich
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The guy doesn't stand a chance anyway, lol. :lol:
 
The only wall we need between us and Canada would be to keep those cold winter winds north of 49. :D
 
SoonerAviator said:
Bolded for emphasis. So if he "panders" to the constituents by investigating the need/feasibility, what was wrong with that? Should he have just said that all of the xenophobes/law enforcement's concerns aren't worth considering regardless of merit? The media made mountains out of mole hills. If he had said he intends to secure our borders with walls in Mexico and Canada, with armed guards 24/7, then we can call the guy a looney. As long as he came back later and said, "well, we investigated it and it turns out walls would be ineffective and cost prohibitive", what harm was done?
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The Texas governor pandered to his looney-tune constituents on Jade Helm and sent his Texas Guard (?) to keep an eye on the US Armed forces to make sure his Texans weren't rounded up this summer and stuck in an abandoned Wal-Mart in Midland, TX.

With Walker (and Abbot), which is worse, that they believe there is a looney-tune conspiracy that needs "investigated" or that they believe they need to pander to looney-tune conspirators voters in order to be elected?

Just because looney-tunes suggest there may be an issue, there is no need to pander to them. Do you remember when McCain had his supporter at a rally ask if something about Obama being a Muslim, and McCain shot her down (ironic choice of words..) and told her that Obama was a good man and a Christian.

Ironically, with the Summer of Trump, there is more pandering to looney-tunes, and, even an empowerment of looney-tunes as the race to the lowest information voter heats up.
 
Fifty-four, forty or fight!
 
He'll need to work on that border with Alaska too...
 
SoonerAviator said:
While I do think the idea is much ado about nothing . . . his comment seemed like it was taken out of context. He said it's a valid item to look into given that law enforcement in some of the northern states which border Canada have expressed concern. The media seems to be making it out like he wanted to keep Canadians in their own country (which should be done with those silly canucks anyway), when it was really more about the threat of Canada being used a go-between for illegal activity from other nations. Either way, a wall won't likely work there any better than it does for US-Mexico and the Great Lakes are another show stopper.
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Thank you. This is such a made-up issue that is getting legs on its own. I didn't see Meet the Press, but I heard that part of it on the radio this morning, and you're right, he was not calling for a wall. He was addressing the risks of terrorists coming across our Northern border, which has already happened with the millennium bomber in 2000.
 
nddons said:
Thank you. This is such a made-up issue that is getting legs on its own. I didn't see Meet the Press, but I heard that part of it on the radio this morning, and you're right, he was not calling for a wall. He was addressing the risks of terrorists coming across our Northern border, which has already happened with the millennium bomber in 2000.
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Walker suffers from being the only candidate without an education, and when he goes around pandering to Xenophobes he just reinforces that he is not bright enough for the office.

Here is his quote:

"Some people have asked us about that in New Hampshire. They raised some very legitimate concerns, including some law enforcement folks that brought that up to me at one of our town hall meetings about a week and a half ago. So that is a legitimate issue for us to look at,” Walker said about building a wall along the Canada-U.S. border.


He is not smart enough to know the costs are outrageous vs the risks of people from Canada crossing into the U.S.
 
I'm all for it if it will keep that damned Canadian Air Mass* out of the northern US in the winter.

*for you AGW freaks, that's the "Polar Vortex"
 
Just more against the wall, to see what sticks. A little smoke & mirrors help too.

It's not even the real race yet, just the warm-ups.
 
I guess you'll al have to fly out beyond the Canadian territorial boundary over the ocean to reach Alaska. No cutting through Canada, especially since we're "not a real country" anyway and can't grant permission to transit...

Canada had the opportunity to pay $7.5 million for Alaska in 1867. The politicians in Ottawa were too busy figuring out Confederation to bother with it and told the Russians to sell it to the US instead. We had enough square miles anyhow, they thought.
 
I am all for a Canadian weather wall but let the people come and go. Put a prison dome over and around Mexico however.
 
I'm on vacation in Banff this week. Too many damn foreigners here.


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flhrci said:
I am all for a Canadian weather wall but let the people come and go. Put a prison dome over and around Mexico however.
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Can we do that with DC instead?
 
JoseCuervo said:
Walker suffers from being the only candidate without an education, and when he goes around pandering to Xenophobes he just reinforces that he is not bright enough for the office.

Here is his quote:

"Some people have asked us about that in New Hampshire. They raised some very legitimate concerns, including some law enforcement folks that brought that up to me at one of our town hall meetings about a week and a half ago. So that is a legitimate issue for us to look at,” Walker said about building a wall along the Canada-U.S. border.


He is not smart enough to know the costs are outrageous vs the risks of people from Canada crossing into the U.S.
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You didn't pull a quote from the interview. You pulled a quote from an article. The portion of the interview shown on Meet The Press doesn't include this alleged Canadian wall statement, so there's no written transcript on it. But here's the entire interview, and in no way does Walker advocate such a wall. He does say that we have to look into border security on our Northern border as well, but says nothing about a wall.

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/scott-walkers-full-meet-the-press-interview-515822659517

You've been suckered by the MSM. Typical.
 
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