• D_C@sh.itjust.works
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    Arrest then charge them. At the very least.

    You could jump straight to breaking ankles if you’d like…

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    Similar thing happened in Spain with Catalans and many of them did end up in prison so… there’s hope!

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    I am utterly baffled as to why any Canadian in their right mind would want to be annexed by the U.S.

    Sure, charge them with treason, but give them psych evals. Maybe offer mental health treatment in lieu of whatever Canada does to treason, it’s clearly a cry for help to overcome Fascist Oligarch Cuck Syndrome.

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    I can’t express how much I wish my fellow Albertans, who want to join the US, to pack their things and head to their promised land.

    The separatists movement has always been here. For decades even conservatives would laugh at someone suggesting ceding from Canada. Then PP came along and started riling them up and taking a page out of mein Kampf 2nd edition and here we are. That, and every equipment operator, truck driver and Derrick hand started listening to conservative podcasts and doing some ‘deep thinking’ without the requisite number of brain cells.

    Fuckheads.

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      It seems to be universal that one. For some reason truck drivers and right-wing rhetoric just seem to go hand in hand.

      But they’re the ones that have to cross over international borders and go through checkpoints all the time, so you would think that they’d be all in favour of smooth diplomatic relations.

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        For some reason truck drivers and right-wing rhetoric just seem to go hand in hand.

        AM radio talk shows. Thirty years ago AM radio was where you got Rush Limbaugh, and it has NOT gotten any better. But that’s often the only signal that will work out in the boonies between here and there, so drivers listen to a lot of it.

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    Half of America would literally die to be in a real democracy and these clowns are committing treason? Fascism is a cancer you better cut that cancer out

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    If Canada is smarter than America, they will deal with this decisively. It’s one think to be a big dickhead online, screaming for revolution. It’s a whole other thing to be meeting with representatives of a hostile government who has made many threats of invasion. That’s fucking treason, and Canada should deal with it right the fuck NOW, and send a clear message to future traitors. Don’t wait to see if it gets worse, like we do here in America, deal with it preemptively.

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      Their leader is an international banker.

      They definitely are not smarter than we are, just a few years behind the enshittification curve.

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        Our current party is currently lead by a former international banker who is now PM. We don’t have a “leader”. And by all metrics (I’m assuming you’re an American from your use of the ‘Royal We’ in this case, since everything is about America to you) “We” are smarter, and not a few years behind.

        Let me use the ‘Royal We’ from our country. “We” say, fuck you you fucking hoser and get bent. America bends, Canada won’t.

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          Their leader is an international banker.

          … in a trade war. Stupid like a fox.

          They definitely are not smarter than we are

          We do present differently, though.

          Do we think that more than 46% of us read above a 6th-grade level? Yes, at 87% ‘scoring PIAAC level 2 or higher’, so that’s one metric. Most tertiary education? We’re doing a little better there, too (65% vs 51%). Electing pedos? Still eking ahead; and I’m calling that an intelligence test.

          But you can surely find areas where Canadians don’t score highly, and that’s going to be okay. We don’t need to be the winner.

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      I agree… but the person calling them traitors does not have the authority to do that.

      I believe it has to come from the gov of Alberta (traitors all as well) or the Federal gov.

      I do expect some form of movement on this, strategically this is too dangerous to go unpunished

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        Criminal charges are federal in Canada, but charges are laid by crown prosecutors in that particular province (never by the government itself)

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            You gonna actually lay out your case for that? Because I’m pretty sure you’re wrong, but it’s hard to say when you haven’t even offered any justification for your argument.

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              The regime has made overt commentary and motions of hostility toward Canada, and has vociferously stated a desire for lebensraum in Canada, Greenland, and other neighboring countries. When they talk about neo-Monroe doctrine, they’re really talking about neocolonialism. They’re “joking” until they’re not. It’s an established pattern and practice with the regime, now as well as in the first stint they had.

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          This is why a full investigation must take place. Until then we have no proof that the meeting did not violate paragraph b.

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            Paragraph B is the kicker, because we do know they met with a foreign power that has stated it wants to expand into Canada.

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            Hi there, you seem to be confused about how laws work in Canada. See, unlike our neighbours to the south, we have this crazy notion that civil rights do in fact matter.

            That includes the right not to be subject to investigation without reasonable suspicion of a crime. There being no evidence that someone has not committed a crime is not a reasonable basis for an investigation.

            Do you drive? Prove you haven’t ever committed vehicular manslaughter. Do you own bolt cutters? Prove you’ve never used them to break and enter. Do you have alcohol or weed in your home? Prove you’ve never sold them to minors. Have you ever been near a school? Prove you’re not a child rapist.

            See how this works? Saying that someone was in a situation where they could have a comitted a crime cannot be the basis for a criminal investigation, or else we’d be investigating everyone, all the time.

            The Alberta separatists are pathetic scumbags, but they’re not automatically criminals just because you don’t like what they did. That’s toddler logic.

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              I think you’re mistaking “investigation” with “prosecution” or something else. The cops can investigate literally anyone. You can hire a PI to investigate anyone.

              There are limits however on what investigative actions can be legally taken by cops based on the evidence they have. Even with no evidence, they can still do things like interview people who know the POI, even follow them around in public. They can’t, for example, detain them and beat a confession out of them, or search their house willy nilly.

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            It’s unlikely that these dorks are leakng military info, but they should definitely be investigated. I think the real question is whether the US are using “force or violence”, which would fall under C) and A)

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              military or scientific information or any sketch, plan, model, article, note or document of a military or scientific character

              I’m getting real sick of people ignoring 3/4 of the shit they’re supposedly quoting.

              For some reason a lot of y’all wanna bend over backwards to defend this shit.

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                For some reason a lot of y’all wanna bend over backwards to defend this shit.

                🙄

                Pray tell, what would these dumbfucks even know about science enough that it’s worth leaking?

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            High treason is defined in the previous section;

            High treason

            46 (1) Every one commits high treason who, in Canada,
            
                (a) kills or attempts to kill Her Majesty, or does her any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maims or wounds her, or imprisons or restrains her;
            
                (b) levies war against Canada or does any act preparatory thereto; or
            
                (c) assists an enemy at war with Canada, or any armed forces against whom Canadian Forces are engaged in hostilities, whether or not a state of war exists between Canada and the country whose forces they are. 
            
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      Just like our government used those hate speech laws to punish musk, a canadian citizen, for doing nazi salutes on international media / supporting fascist ideals openly?

      I dont see it happening. Many of our laws are just for poor people / commoners.

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        I get the sentiment but I fail to see what the Judicial Branch of Canada could have done to Musk about that.

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          Hate speech is a criminal offense in Canada. Any other citizen doing a nazi salute and promoting white supremacy risks literal jail time. Hell, the guy subsequently pushed out a kiddy-porn grok tool, and still isn’t getting held accountable.

          One of the functions of the courts is to basically “make examples” of public/blatant violations of the laws, to re-enforce the importance of obeying the laws to other would be criminals.

          Musk lands in Canada, as he frequently does, you throw him in Jail. Max sentence is two years, so have him serve the max – I mean, the scale of his actions certainly would warrant a proper display of punishment. We threw Meng Wanzhou in jail based on the descriptions she provided for doing Wire Transfers, held her in Canada for years before she was released. So, that’s what the government’d do if Musk wasn’t a billionaire/US figure immune to all laws in Canada. Laws that only really apply to the poors.

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            Hate speech is a criminal offense in Canada.

            The operative words here are “in Canada.”

            Musk hasn’t done anything in Canada that would meet the definition of hate speech.

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              Canada isn’t beyond going after people for crimes committed in other countries. Just look at how well we’ve repatriated and ‘forgiven’ the atrocities of people who went and joined ISIS. Or that swirly-face guy who did the whole child-sex-tourism thing in Thailand, but still got nabbed in Canada for it. Or Meng, who’s wires were sent outside of Canada, and yet she was still detained, by Canada, for years, because the US said so.

              Saying “Nothing can be done!” is not the attitude Canada has taken in other scenarios. Even when the person is basically let go after a while (Meng), they still took some action. Here, Canada just shrugs, and lets the US give money to Alberta separatists, while they’re also running disinformation style campaigns and influence campaigns focused on disrupting and heightening instability in Canada: they control most of Canadas major media afterall. Musk is basically immune to accountability for his actions due to his relationship with the US administration and his giant pile of money: things that frankly, should make him a foreign agent of some sort, with far more scrutiny to his actions within Canada/impacting Canada. He practically runs an anti-Canada influence machine in X, and is openly manipulating things like Wikipedia (grokepedia) to align to the US Administrations distorted/fabricated world view. His status is similar to how Trump is immune to anything in the Epstein files, realistically, and he’s only fussed about it cause he’s a narcissist worrying about his legacy – not because he’s worried he’ll face any direct accountability for his past actions.

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            I agree but our criminal code is specific in that nobody can be convicted of an offense committed outside of Canada unless specifically stipulated by the law.

            So like we would have to amend our laws in the legislature to specifically allow for criminal convictions of the things Musk did.

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    Do it fast, do it fully, and show no mercy, the window lickers in the USA (large portion at least) still say Jan 6th wasn’t really treason, but when central Republicans (Democrats) and Nazi Republicans (everyone right of Democrats) fail to do it we the people need to, cause I still think someone should go put each and every one of those people down including the orange shortbus rider running the show full of pedophile dementia, fuckin hate that fuck

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      the window lickers in the USA (large portion at least)

      It objectively is not a large portion. Did you see the 2025 elections, where something like two dozen districts that Donald won in 2024 flipped?

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        Yeah I also remember fuckstain saying how great felon musk is with computers as well, plus all the anomaly’s

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    Alberta wanting to become its own country is like a high schooler who moves out of his parents’ house because he thinks he can make it as a Soundcloud rapper

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    I used to wear a maple leaf bandana and claimed to be a member of the Canadian Liberation Army as a joke, turns out I was predicting the future.