• @Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    As a Canadian this reminds me of Quebec. They’re always going on about seceding, but they’re land locked, and without the rest of the country they’d be financially and socially FUCKED.

    Reminder that Texas’s yearly operating budget is roughly 51 billion, and they receive 62 billion in federal aid, so without the rest of the country, Texas can’t even run the state

      • jaxxed
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        128 months ago

        Not only is it not landlocked, it separates all of the Atlantic Maritime provinces from the rest of Canada, and governs part of the Great Lake waterways.

        • Bob
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          18 months ago

          Just looking at the map now, it stretches all the way up the side of that bleeding great sea poking a hole in Canada to the Hudson Strait.

        • @droans@lemmy.world
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          18 months ago

          If Texas actually tries to secede, it’s likely we’ll see a West Virginia situation where the eastern part of Texas remains with the US because of Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio.

      • @Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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        38 months ago

        Nevermind the St. Lawrence and the fact that Montreal is a huge shipping port, there’s also that wee bit of water called Hudson Bay. I don’t think that fellow understands what ‘land locked’ means.

    • @dlhextall@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      but they’re land locked

      Yeah, except for the main East maritime entryway and port lol. Classic good ol’ Quebec bashing.

    • @hglman@lemmy.ml
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      58 months ago

      That’s not how that math works out, you are not including taxes collected. The balance is still negative but there’s a smaller gap.

    • @funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      28 months ago

      just you wait until an enterprising film lecturer creates a film that no one can stop watching until they starve to death and it falls into the hands of voluntary amputee Quebecois separatists who use it to execute minor government attachés!

    • @Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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      18 months ago

      And what percentage of the national debt will they take with them when they leave? Same with Alberta. That’s where it all falls apart.