Canadians have voted to merge with the United States of America...

[Agent Richard07]

On Sunday March 30th, CBC will air the first part of a new mini series called The Trojan Horse. This is the long awaited sequel to the 2004 mini series H2O: The Last Prime Minister. Both were written by and star Paul Gross.

In H2O, Canada's Prime Minister dies in an accident and it is later believed that he was assasinated. His son Thomas McLaughlin (played by Paul Gross) runs for office, gets elected as the new Prime Minister and finds himself tangled up in a conspiracy that involves control of Canada's water supply. In the end, the U.S., unwilling to accept instability moves in to take over Canada, leaving McLaughlin in charge of the provisional government.

This new mini series, The Trojan Horse begins with Canadians voting by referendum to join the U.S. as six new states. More games and power struggles ensue as Thomas Mclaughlin, backed by special interests, makes his move to become President, but to what end?

Part 2 airs on Sunday April 6th.

• The Trojan Horse
• The Trojan Horse IMDb Entry
• The Trojan Horse far from empty; CBC thriller rich and entertaining.
• H2O: The Last Prime Minister
• H2O IMDb Entry
• H2O on DVD at Amazon.ca

 

[firehawk12]

What the... really?!
I mean... really? I didn't bother watching H2O but... really!?
In what future is this even possible? Now I almost want to watch the first mini...

 

[IJD GAF]

So I'm getting the impression as I encounter more and more Canadians that somewhere, whether buried deep inside their subconscious or scrawled in the pages of a lame tv movie script, every single Canadian has this very fear tucked away somewhere.

Sorta the same way that every chihuahua has, tucked away somewhere, a deep seated fear of... well, everything.

 

[nx1701g]

Cuba will become a state before Canada does I have a feeling.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Seriously, control of Canada's water supply? How is that even feasible in a country with 10,000+ freshwater lakes? Can't they just say we invaded as payback for sending us Celine Dion or something? Then it would be a just war at least.

 

[Stormrage]

Hmm in the UK it's economically infeasible to get water from Scotland to London. How would this even work with two countries several times bigger then the UK.

 

[FordSVT]

Hmm in the UK it's economically infeasible to get water from Scotland to London. How would this even work with two countries several times bigger then the UK.

Not saying the movie is a plausible scenario of reality, but the US and Canada do share the Great Lakes, which is the largest depository of fresh water on the entire planet. In fact, the Great Lakes are almost exactly the same size as the entire UK: 250,000 kms2. Wrap your mind around that!

 

[Chaos Descending]

Hmm in the UK it's economically infeasible to get water from Scotland to London. How would this even work with two countries several times bigger then the UK.

They have this wonderful invention, I think the Romans came up with it. It's called the "aqueduct".

 

[Stormrage]

Hmm in the UK it's economically infeasible to get water from Scotland to London. How would this even work with two countries several times bigger then the UK.

Not saying the movie is a plausible scenario of reality, but the US and Canada do share the Great Lakes, which is the largest depository of fresh water on the entire planet. In fact, the Great Lakes are almost exactly the same size as the entire UK: 250,000 kms2. Wrap your mind around that!

I know about these lakes. What I meant was that it would only benifit the states near them. The hot states like California and Nevada would be miles away from them.

 

[Agent Richard07]

What the... really?!
I mean... really? I didn't bother watching H2O but... really!?
In what future is this even possible?

The same one where a group of radicals detonate nuclear bombs in the U.S. resulting in the destruction of 23 cities and three new countries facing war with eachother.

 

[FordSVT]

Hmm in the UK it's economically infeasible to get water from Scotland to London. How would this even work with two countries several times bigger then the UK.

Not saying the movie is a plausible scenario of reality, but the US and Canada do share the Great Lakes, which is the largest depository of fresh water on the entire planet. In fact, the Great Lakes are almost exactly the same size as the entire UK: 250,000 kms2. Wrap your mind around that!

I know about these lakes. What I meant was that it would only benifit the states near them. The hot states like California and Nevada would be miles away from them.

They pump oil and gas from one side of the continent to the other, if water was in THAT big a demand, people would pay for it.

 

[TheBrew]

I drink your water! I drink it right up! *SLUUUUUUUURP*

 

[Stormrage]

Not saying the movie is a plausible scenario of reality, but the US and Canada do share the Great Lakes, which is the largest depository of fresh water on the entire planet. In fact, the Great Lakes are almost exactly the same size as the entire UK: 250,000 kms2. Wrap your mind around that!

I know about these lakes. What I meant was that it would only benifit the states near them. The hot states like California and Nevada would be miles away from them.

They pump oil and gas from one side of the continent to the other, if water was in THAT big a demand, people would pay for it.

There was a piece about pumping water through pipelines in the Newsnight last year during the drought. They explained the difference between water and electricity,oil and gas. I forgot what the problem was but it caused a company to create some weird rubber balls to transport water.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

I drink your water! I drink it right up! *SLUUUUUUUURP*

You have won the internet

 

[FordSVT]

The differences between pumping oil and gas and water are matters of viscosity, density, and their inherent negative effects on the flow systems they inhabit. All of these things can (and have been) overcome by engineering, but engineering comes at a price.

At one time, it wasn't worth mining the oil sands in Alberta. Now, because oil is so expensive, it's worth it. If fresh water was much more scarce than it is today, and desalinization was unable to handle the volume of drinking water necessary to take up the slack, all kinds of methods, old and new would be harnessed to transport water across tremendous distances. There are water pipelines of more than 500 kilometres with head differentials of hundreds of meters to several kilometres that pump a million cubic metres of water or more per day. Hell, Goldfield's Pipeline in Australia remains one of the longest in the world and it was built over 100 years ago.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

America doesn't want you. Go away.

"Water issues," could we get more boring? Can we have more Jericho back instead of this?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

More games and power struggles ensue as Thomas Mclaughlin, backed by special interests, makes his move to become President, but to what end?

Gee, I wonder.

 

[Praetor_04]

I own the first one on dvd, and its great!

I only wish i knew where i could watch this one in the states

 

[Sci]

The idea that the United States would invade and annex Canada is laughable, especially because of backroom political instability. It would take a full-scale Canadian civil war before the idea would even come up, and then, the US would only send in troops as allies of the legitimate Canadian government and would leave once the Canadian government no longer wanted us there. Assholes like Bush aside, we're not imperialists out to take over the planet, and in particular, we have no designs on Canada.

Secondly, the idea of a former Canadian being allowed to run for the presidency is just as laughable. The US has a 14-year residency requirement for presidential candidates. Unless The Trojan Horse is set 14 years after H20: The Last Prime Minister, no former Canadian could possibly qualify. And the US electorate would almost certainly never vote for a former head of a foreign government just on general principle.

 

[Goliath]

The US has a 14-year residency requirement for presidential candidates.

I was under the impression that someone had to be born in the USA to run for President--and that was the reason Schwarzenegger could never run for the office. Am I mistaken?

In any case--I have to agree that its very unlikely the USA in its present form would ever annex Canada--especially against the will of the Canadian people.

But, hey--there was a TV miniseries back in the 80s about a Soviet takeover of the USA. So I guess any absurd scenario is allowed, if it brings in ratings.