What province are you from?
Oh, Canada (in canon)!
- Thread starter Laura Cynthia Chambers
- Start date
Without looking it up on Wikipedia, who is your head of state?
Oh, oh, I know! I know!
It's not William Shatner.
Though...it probably should have been at some point.
Though...it probably should have been at some point.
Wait, isn't that more or less a line from "Blame Canada" in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1999?*
* Why, yes, it is.
In 2021, François Legault's Coalition Avenir Québec government in Quebec proposed to amend the Charter of the French Language and the provincial constitution to more strongly entrench French as the sole official language. In response to this, the Bloc Québécois initiated a motion in the House of Commons endorsing the constitutionality of Legault's initiatives and reasserting Quebecers' nationhood. The Commons passed the motion 281–2, with 36 abstentions.[18]
That the House agree that Section 45 of the Constitution Act, 1982, grants Quebec and the provinces exclusive jurisdiction to amend their respective constitutions and acknowledge the will of Quebec to enshrine in its constitution that Quebecers form a nation, that French is the only official language of Quebec and that it is also the common language of the Quebec nation.
Canada isn't a real country. It's an on paper country. Point is it's very likely Canada won't be around in 20 years unless something changes. FYI I'm going with Quebec.
Ryan Reynolds
James Doohan. Nine fingers. One vision for Canada.
Aren’t they all.
BTW, kindly piss off with this nonsense. We're a real country, same as all the others.
Except we're not the same as all the others. We have two official languages and two separate legal systems.
You combine that with size/population among other features, and there's no other industrialized country that compares.
We're like Flanders/Wallonia if they were 5,000 kilometers apart.
In a post scarcity star trek future, there's little reason for the country to exist, which is the topic of discussion.
And? We're unique. That hardly means we're not a country.
You've done nothing but spew inane blabbery across multiple threads in some effort to come off as intelligent, while all you've done is prove to the contrary.
Last edited:
It's a country that has two languages, two legal systems, multiple official state recognized "nations", etc.
It's not just unique, in the topic of actual discussion it illustrates very very good reason why Canada wouldn't exist in 300 years.
I'm not in a minority with that statement. It's disingenuous to act as if I'm making some fringe tinfoil hat theory.
If we're assuming Canada goes from some post WW3 transition, it seems very likely there'd be no reason to have Canada listed.
There's no geographic political/economic need etc to keep the country together in a post scarcity future.
Canada is a country that is held together by economic needs.
Lot of countries won't exist in 300 years. Many of today's countries didn't exist 300 years ago, and the many of the countries that technically existed back then...were run differently...
I was quite specific in mentioning westernized/industrialized countries, and countries that are quite large.
Haiti -Haiti isn't bilingual their creole is a creole of french. It's not a country split between languages, it's a country where people pick and choose what language they want to speak at a given time, as their culture is creole and their world is french.
Paraguay-Similar but totally different it's properly bilingual and is a country focused on a dual spanish-amerindian heritage.
Afghanistan
India
Israel
Kyrgyzstan
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Timor Lestel
None of these are politically stable in the long term, not a list of countries canada want's to be part of.
Philippines- Hard to predict, held together by a strong sense of nationalism, largely based on a christian heritage, frequently getting tangled in with muslims/indonesians. FYI, each island has more or less it's own language/dialect. In that sense yes the two countries are very similar. People have suggested before Canada is like an archipelago of island nations, it's closer to the truth. If you look at a population map with no geographic features you'd never guess it's a singular landless.
Singapore- It's a city demographically comparable to Toronto ironically. It isn't remotely like Canada but it might give us a hint in what Toronto could be like in 30 years. A quadlingual defacto pseudo state(where french isn't spoken).
Belgium-comes up all the time, turns out the country is a postage stamp in size, there's no reason to be together but no reason to part either.
Belarus- Not politically stable, totally totally uncertain if it's a country that'll exist in a few months forget years.
Finland- Only on paper the Swedish speakers are a small minority.
Ireland- No one speaks Gaeilge
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kosovo
When they phrase balkanization is used about a country, best not to use Baulkan countries as proof the country isn't gonna balkanize.
Luxembourg- Not really a country quite literally, it's closer to a multi lingual suburb. Point is you don't split a tiny city in half.
Malte-I'll be honest this is literally the only one on the list I don't know much about.
Norway- You mind want to use google on that one. It's absolutely not bilingual.
Swiss- That's a tangly mess.
Not touching African nations.
To the point which if any of these countries above will exist in 300 years? Finland being
Yes and one of the big questions of this thread is whether or not Canada exists in the future.
Canada is that singular country that is in the most puzzling of situations.
It's not a novelty that so many shows are shot in Canada and none are set in Canada. It's been 30 years since Coldly-Wood became a thing.
Just ask anyone who's tried to make a Canadian movie, the immediate question is why? Who is gonna watch this because it's Canadian.
Oh boy.
Yanno...in the Star Trek universe....
Similar threads
