They have to be to preserve their culture. The us population vastly outnumbers them and most of populated Canada is within a couple hours drive from the US. If there wasn't a strong border they'd end up being assimilated quickly.
That's the theory yet we had so much immigration that the pro unfettered immigration prime minister¹ was forced to acknowledge that is a significant factor in the current housing crisis afflicting Canada. The federal accept immigrants faster than the GDP can raise, so the GDP per capita of Canada has shrunk². Yet the immigration minister is on record saying that the solution to temporary immigrants overstaying their visa is to make them permanent residents³.
1- He is a member of the https://centuryinitiative.ca , a group that want to see Canada having a population of 100 millions in 2100. And the only way it's possible is by having unsustainable immigration.
At a 1.5% fertility rate [0], what's the alternative?
It's fair to gripe about the effects of immigration, and policies to handle those, but it's disingenuous to gripe about immigration as a policy in a <2+ country.
Demographics is a zero sum game. Either you have a growing population and smooth age brackets or Very Bad Things happen.
>They have to be to preserve their culture. The us population vastly outnumbers them and most of populated Canada is within a couple hours drive from the US. If there wasn't a strong border they'd end up being assimilated quickly.
You seem to be under the impression that hordes of Americans are gathered at the 49th parallel slavering to rush into Canada, and that only Canadian border patrol is preventing Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver from being overrun by Americans. Quite the opposite.
I remember getting addicted hard to find those booster packs. It's funny we always look down on the people that would buy single cards from binders though
Which, btw, is currently on a nationwide prison strike since early April.[0] At least Belgium prison strikes get some press. Unlike the US ones. In 2016 we had the largest prison strike in this nation's history[1] and I didn't see a peep about it in any major newspaper
There was a cable-based serial terminal networking system called LocalNet, which was all over the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus circa 1985. The LocalNet modems/concentrators connected terminals and computers throughout the campus. You'd fire up your terminal, hit ENTER for a prompt, then type CALL xxx,yyy (xxx and yyy being hex addresses) to reach a particular host. The host just saw it as just another RS-232 modem.
I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure you're correct. Interestingly though, I have an PC I got from a college that has Win 3.11 and has a network card in it and TCP/IP isn't enabled or on it. I was trying to figure out how to use the network card, but all I can find are a bunch of other communication standards.
I think you needed Trumpet WinSOCK to get 311 on the internet. And there wasn't much other than email, and Netscape to do with it back then. Gopher maybe, but I didn't hear about what that was until it was more or less dead.
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