How Canada Could End

Three scenarios about the end of Canada. Could the country split apart? Fall into tyranny? Join the United States? Let's discuss!

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[Zultzify]

man your non politics videos are getting spread crazy. talking to a random person on an unrelated discord server, the first thing he asked when i said i was canadian was "do you watch jj?" also from working in a grocery store, i quite literally have people recommend your videos to me or to a customer in my line/serving once every month or two. and i never hear people recommending other youtubers by word of mouth. Your content has never felt stale, never imagined id see you talking about a whatifalthist video!

[frankjennings]

I didn’t realize the Handmaid’s Tale author was Canadian. Imagine if an American wrote a book about Canada falling into some dystopian postmodernist anarchy and frightened Canadians fleeing to Michigan lol

[k-dawg]

I'm Canadian and have never found our politics all that interesting, but man your videos just hook me and teach me a lot of what issues are present right under my nose. Thank you for your work!

[emogeek]

0:55 (Scenario #1: Separatism)
17:05 (Scenario # 2: Tyranny)
20:20 (Scenario # 3: Statehood)

[Bigjar]

JJ ur helping fuel a newfound interest in canadian history and politics (as a canadian myself in ottawa) maybe its just one of my adhd fixations but either way, thank you for the interesting and informative videos :)

[amandaweatherford]

I honestly don't know how I started watching JJ. I'm from texas, and as much as i would love to leave this god awful heat and go to a different yet similar country, I've never gone out of my way to look up facts or history about Canada. Now I look forward to JJ's videos, and thoroughly enjoy them all. He's just a little awkward, but a whole lot of informative and entertaining. Plus great editing. seriously, fantastic editing and greatly researched and well thought out videos. Keep it goin JJ, it somehow works amazingly.

[Kingbeaver]

Hey JJ, I just want to let you know how much I appreciate your videos and I watch them everyday. Thank you for everything you do and you are one of my favorite YouTubers!

[aarpj]

We had some Canadian citizens who joined the US Army when I was in Germany many years ago when I asked them why they had joined the US Army their answer was "because there was nothing to do in Canada." I suspect that situation still exists today in the US Army.

[marshallscot]

Speaking as an American I look forward to Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba becoming our 51st, 52nd, and 53rd states.

[jonnyminogue]

JJ: This was a great, researched video about this topic. I really appreciated the pragmatic, and didn’t take such a dystopian view of the future. 👏

[DominionOfNewfoundland]

Hey JJ, Newfoundlander here! Massive thing with me and my friends that is never spoken about by people outside of NL is the overall mismanagement of newfoundland since out totally not rigged referendum to join Canada is the fact that the Canadian Government has literally ignored our plentiful resources and overall strategic area for the fact that we were illegally annexed just to prevent us possibly joining the United States.

[masterofktulu]

As an American I love being subscribed to your channel to hear opinions from another perspective and gain insights into Canadian culture. I’m a huge fan of yours JJ

[hopehowell]

I live in southeast Michigan, USA and we have a lot of Canadians and relations with them here. Even we think of Quebec as the other Canadians. I find this hilarious because in school we usually learn the Quebec dialect of French and not the European version.

[tylerthelen]

I don't think you'll see Canada & the US just up and agree to be one country out of nowhere. It would be precipitated by agreements similar to the EU with a single border & currency, etc. You would be able to see it coming from a mile away

[kimarous]

I'm curious how you might see Canada translated into states. Would the provinces just become large states on their own; would they be split up into smaller states, etc.? What do you think?

[dudermcdudeface]

US-Canada merger is a fascinating topic. One thing I can't decide is which version would be more likely: Canada joining as 1 US state or each province joining individually. The latter would give Canadians more power in the US system due to the Senate, but would erase the very idea of Canada as anything but a historical region. The former would preserve Canada as a unified entity, but would badly limit its power in the Senate (only 2 per state) and the provinces would lose most of their political relevance. Of course some hybrid arrangement is possible, but there are too many options to explore.

[sErgEantaEgis]

I say this as a Quebecer, every province should try and milk as much as they can out of the Canadian constitution in terms of autonomy.

[TheTransitmtl]

As a non seperatist french canadian who lived outside of Quebec I always had difficulty defining what Canadian culture was. I think that is in great part because culture is tied to language and the 30 million anglo canadians are surrounded by 330 million Anglos from the US. The sheer force of American culture has a deeper penetration in English Canada has it gas in Quebec. Quebec still outputs more movies and music than all the rest of Canada combined and a lot of our shared culture is based around this. This is quickly disappearing and I doubt there will be much seperatism in Quebec 50 years from now.

[WhatifAltHist]

Very interesting to see your take on the same topic as my video. There were a lot of good points I hadn't thought of, and a lot of this stuff I honestly didn't know since I'm not a Canada expert. Alternately, since you helped me write the other video this seems almost like your ability to propose the opposing argument haha. The day of the rake will come....or maybe not.

[TheCoffeeCatDad]

As an Albertan, I feel safe to say that if Quebec did end up separating, it could start a domino effect of Canada's breakup as Alberta would likely follow second.

A lot of the farmers around here would say, "If Canada was a Cow, the west side does all the feeding while the east gets all the milk." Sure the city folks may have improvements, but the areas outside them have different opinions. Small towns are slowly becoming ghost towns as store buildings are put up for sale and people move away to find new work. Farmers are losing thrice money they make due to the 'taxes' that were demanded. Thats where a bunch of the Conservative politicians, truckers, oil workers, and especially the protesters are truly from. For years they have dealt with that frustration of getting robbed as they try to self sustain themselves with ridiculous taxes.

When Stephen Harper was PM, he was giving them that chance to build and grow their communities, and as the years passed they were developing.

When Justin Trudeau was first elected, Alberta knew that it was the beginning of the end as his 'carbon tax' has literally squeezed the life out of rural areas. And after years of frustration with unemployment and poverty growing, they are starting to have enough with the new lines of bills planned which pretty much targets their whole livelyhoods left and right. They REALLY hate what Justin has done to the province to the point where he is on billboards and photo painted on windows dressed as Castro.

Now as far as the idea of Canada becoming under dictatorship, that will be difficult as there is still A LOT of open land that they would need a lot of numbers to spread out, having plenty of places where any rebels could set up and combat against it. That in turn, would likely draw out a long civil war within. With how Albertans are against the idea of Tyranny in their protests, they will definetly put up a fight where the Authoritarians would classify Alberta as a rebel province. Even if they end up winning, it would be a drawn out civil war.

Anyway, thought I'd share that bit of extra information as someone whose observed it over the years and may be able to give a little bit of insight on why there's THAT much anger by the many Albertans towards our current PM.