I visited a 16th century fort in northern Canada in winter once.
The snow was blowing all over. The wind was brutal worst of all, it just wouldn't stop.
I thought about what that would be like, moving from temperate Europe to this place where the winters were 6 months of Hell on earth and 6 months of bugs and other weather extremes such as extreme heat.
In some ways, Canada is more like Russia. Even people whose history is limited to neoliberal orthodoxy such as the world wars knows what happened to the Germans when they tried to invade Russia -- the weather took more men than the enemy soldiers.
For that reason, comparing Canadian ways of living to European ways of living are absurd on their face. Maybe you can walk every day in Amsterdam, but you can't walk every day in Winnipeg.
It also means stuff like EV mandates aren't going to work. Maybe it'll work in the lovely climate and densely packed populations in Europe, but Canada isn't Europe. Just like the German soldiers who died in Russia, importing these policies is going to kill a bunch of people.
Americans who know their history would know this: even further south in the US, early colonies failed because they were run like European cities and America isn't Europe.
The East Indians who are suckered into coming to live in Northern canada, the ones who don't immediately leave once they realize they've been scammed, often they end up working at the little corner stores. And they'll see a bunch of Canadian kids come in in the middle of winter, in 40 below, and they'll pick up a bunch of slurpees. Because that's part of the national character that outsiders don't understand. And unlike basically anywhere else on planet earth, the risk isn't of your slurpees melting, it's that they freeze.
And I talk a lot about the cold, but you know what? Northern Canada gets super hot as well. The same city can see -40C in the winter, and then +40C (with high humidity) in the summer. Canada is probably one of the only places in the world where you need your heater and your air conditioner on in the same day. And in between, if you're the outdoors sort, the spot between the too cold to live says and the too hot to live says are filled with swarming mosquitos, blackflies, and other bugs like noseeums.
The people who choose to continue to live up here aren't European. Not anymore. They must be something else because the laws of physics demand it.
The funniest and most brutal point is that the Europeans think the people who committed genocide in Canada and Australia are not the same as they are. Trouble is, they're the exact same arrogant idiots imposing their norms on places they won't work. In Canada, that means wannabe European elites like Carney or Trudeau implementing European policies are courting genocide because it hasn't gotten any more temperate in Thompson, flin flon, fort McMurray, the battlefords, or fort Saint john.
The snow was blowing all over. The wind was brutal worst of all, it just wouldn't stop.
I thought about what that would be like, moving from temperate Europe to this place where the winters were 6 months of Hell on earth and 6 months of bugs and other weather extremes such as extreme heat.
In some ways, Canada is more like Russia. Even people whose history is limited to neoliberal orthodoxy such as the world wars knows what happened to the Germans when they tried to invade Russia -- the weather took more men than the enemy soldiers.
For that reason, comparing Canadian ways of living to European ways of living are absurd on their face. Maybe you can walk every day in Amsterdam, but you can't walk every day in Winnipeg.
It also means stuff like EV mandates aren't going to work. Maybe it'll work in the lovely climate and densely packed populations in Europe, but Canada isn't Europe. Just like the German soldiers who died in Russia, importing these policies is going to kill a bunch of people.
Americans who know their history would know this: even further south in the US, early colonies failed because they were run like European cities and America isn't Europe.
The East Indians who are suckered into coming to live in Northern canada, the ones who don't immediately leave once they realize they've been scammed, often they end up working at the little corner stores. And they'll see a bunch of Canadian kids come in in the middle of winter, in 40 below, and they'll pick up a bunch of slurpees. Because that's part of the national character that outsiders don't understand. And unlike basically anywhere else on planet earth, the risk isn't of your slurpees melting, it's that they freeze.
And I talk a lot about the cold, but you know what? Northern Canada gets super hot as well. The same city can see -40C in the winter, and then +40C (with high humidity) in the summer. Canada is probably one of the only places in the world where you need your heater and your air conditioner on in the same day. And in between, if you're the outdoors sort, the spot between the too cold to live says and the too hot to live says are filled with swarming mosquitos, blackflies, and other bugs like noseeums.
The people who choose to continue to live up here aren't European. Not anymore. They must be something else because the laws of physics demand it.
The funniest and most brutal point is that the Europeans think the people who committed genocide in Canada and Australia are not the same as they are. Trouble is, they're the exact same arrogant idiots imposing their norms on places they won't work. In Canada, that means wannabe European elites like Carney or Trudeau implementing European policies are courting genocide because it hasn't gotten any more temperate in Thompson, flin flon, fort McMurray, the battlefords, or fort Saint john.
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