Canada

[The AD]

No one noticed how many foreign licence plates therewere in Vancouver or Whistler before.

Not true at all. There's always been some grousing about Ugly Americans. COVID-19 just ramped it up dramatically.

[altasnob]

The Canadians are just pissed Microsoft names all their development products after Whistler lifts and bars. The village was built on Microsoft Seattle money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...soft_codenames

[pureantigravity]

panic and blame are the new pornographers

[XXX-er]

No one noticed how many foreign licence plates therewere in Vancouver or Whistler before.
No one was actually looking for them.
It is like, "How many green traffic lights did you pass?"
vs "How many red traffic lights did you stop for?"
No one takes notice of the green lights.
"Too many" is the answer to the later.
Alberta and Washington plates are now like red traffic lights.

the first thing I noticed was the vermont plate on a truck and then my buddy walks up and sez hey that guy has a vermont plate he shouldnt be here and buddy the driver gave me a bulshit excuse about not understanding even tho he was a grad student

[paulster2626]

You actually approach people with non-BC plates to give them shit? I thought you were kidding before.

[XXX-er]

It was easy cuz he was parked right next to me at the bike trails & struck up a conversation so I politely asked him, he said he didnt realize the no go regulations pertained to all of canada thot it was just in the yukon, so I did him a favor by pointing out ever body had made him and this year nobody loved him

[pureantigravity]

All it takes is one XXX-er to keep Canada safe!

[pureantigravity]

the first thing I noticed was the vermont plate on a truck and then my buddy walks up and sez hey that guy has a vermont plate he shouldnt be here and buddy the driver gave me a bulshit excuse about not understanding even tho he was a grad student

Psych 101. We notice that which we feel the need to notice. Red traffic lights, US plates ...
same same!

[t.odd]

many US plated vehicles in my neighbourhood, I've yet to accost any of them...I can be passive aggressive about them being long term residents without changing over their insurance and plates as required, however.

[altasnob]

What if it is a Canadian who pre-COVID normally worked and lived in the US, had US plates (as they are required to have), but now that they are working from home, decided to move back to their parents place in Canada? Everyone assumes that a US plate means the person is there illegally. People don't often lie to border guards to get into countries. The consequences are very high (permanent ban).

[XXX-er]

many US plated vehicles in my neighbourhood, I've yet to accost any of them...I can be passive aggressive about them being long term residents without changing over their insurance and plates as required, however.

Probably not going to do that either

but at an off highway bike area pretty much in the middle of nowhere

14 hrs along one of 2 routes to/from AK and buddy sez hey

the question comes up do you know you arent suposed to be here ?

[Ted Striker]

People don't often lie to border guards to get into countries.

Uhm... wut? People lie to the border guys all the time. Have you never watched the tv show?

When Canada legalized, the CBP started asking people with BC plates if they had ever used mj. (fact)
Apparently if they answered in the affirmative, they were denied entry. (hearsay)
Some of them said, "no sir. not even once." which was a lie. (fact)

[altasnob]

Lie about a thing that they could not easily be caught on is one thing, but lying about the reason to enter a country is a whole different thing. When a person tries to get permanent resident card or permanent resident in US is trying to become a citizen, they are asked if they have ever lied to an immigration official. The USCIS will look at that person's entire immigration file to see if they can catch them on a very old lie, no matter how minimal the lie, and then deny them citizenship and then possibly deport them. Very ballsy to lie to an immigration official. You are risking getting permanently red flagged. It's also a crime. Sure, people do it. But I find it hard to believe well to do Vancouver/Bellingham folk are routinely lying just to cross back and forth.

[Harry]

You f-ing Canadians can’t even race pigeons correctly.

This completely tame and very friendly d00d showed up at my Mom’s neighbor, lost from some Canadian pigeon race. Refused to go back home to Canada. Apparently it enjoyed #Wisconsinlakelife. Border closed so no way to cage it and drive it home. Finally some Good Samaritan drove it to Detroit and it flew across the river.

https://www.chetekalert.com/news/top...b70f0f80c.html





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[Ted Striker]

I thought the tv show reference would indicate my level of seriousness.

You are, of course, correct. There are lies, white lies, and statistics.

[Angle Parking]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/can...rump-1.5722974

[XXX-er]

so I have been quoting a figure of >80% of canadians polled being against the border openning, somebody asked for an update thinking it can't get worse/bogus number so the latest poll is up to 90% and this artical lays out all the reasons,

If its any consolation the author stays professional & does not use the term " batshit crazy "

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/can...rump-1.5722974

" Why many Canadians support the Canada-U.S. border closure, despite the costs

A new poll found 90 per cent of respondents supported keeping the border closed to Americans "



https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/alu...deau-1.5724391

and in other news Canada is about to enact a total of 3.6 billion tit-for-tat tarrifs in key republican staes against the USA to retaliate which means your can of beer or sft will cost more thanks to trump

start a trade war in the middle of all this ... great neighbors eh

[altasnob]

some really nice Victorians badly vandalized my dad’s truck with Texas plates. Smashed windshield, stole license plates and graffiti’d it. He has been here for almost 3 months visiting family and helping us out. My wife and I just had a baby - his first grandchild and we just moved. He did his 2 week quarantine. He is Canadian and can’t even vote for or against Trump.



George Creek — a member of a group of volunteer boaters reporting U.S. pleasure boat sightings in Canadian waters to border officers

Go Canada! LOL

[t.odd]

yeah, those are shitty people and that's pretty terrible.

[XXX-er]

"There's a lot of reasons why everyone in the world should be concerned about the way that this pandemic has been addressed in the United States," said Hoffman.

Diodati of Niagara Falls predicts Canada won't entertain discussions over reopening the Canada-U.S. border until after the U.S. election, when perhaps politics is no longer muddying the waters.

"We call this silly season when there's an election," he said. "Let's let the Americans get through their election process ... and then we're going to probably have more meaningful dialogue."

from that artical

[paulster2626]

USA drops it's stupid aluminum tariffs as Canada was about to retaliate.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/alu...deau-1.5724391

So are we a threat to the USA's national security or not? Seriously fuck this 'leadership' please vote this moran out of office thanks in advance.

[XXX-er]

Yeah they experiance overpowering presence of Christia Freeland and the fuckers blinked eh ?

Or more likley someone hid the paperwork from trump

the reality is that someone finally did a little basic math to figure out the USA has NO aluminium ERGO how can a war mongering nation bomb the fuck out of the world with no Aluminium, how will those defense contracters feed their workers the macro beer if there are no cans to put it in ?

[t.odd]

Yeah they experiance overpowering presence of Christia Freeland and the fuckers blinked eh ?

Or more likley someone hid the paperwork from trump

the reality is that someone finally did a little basic math to figure out the USA has NO aluminium ERGO how can a war mongering nation bomb the fuck out of the world with no Aluminium, how will those defense contracters feed their workers the macro beer if there are no cans to put it in ?

well Oleg is building a fancy new aluminum plant in Kentucky....so, with Trump you should know the tariffs are more about supporting Russia's aluminum manufacturing owning oligarchy rather than Canada being a 'threat' to national security.

[altasnob]

Tariffs, and being anti-free trade is more of far left political move, than a far right. If Bernie Sanders got the Democrat nomination, and became president, he would tariff the living shit out of Canada. It is the one thing that Bernie Sanders and Trump agree on. Personally, I'm more of a free trade guy. But I don't understand why Canadians brag about how far left they are politically but then get upset by tariffs. Aren't far left people suppose to block all international trade and keep the jobs in house? See the World Trade Organization riots in Seattle in 1999.

[t.odd]

average Canadians aren't 'far left'