I think you are right on. Although personally, I would throw free higher education in as well.
I honestly don't see your views as particularly progressive, I see them as being reasonable, common sense functions of a responsible government. As a United States citizen, I had naively assumed that a majority of Americans were enlightened enough to agree with you and I. Man, was I wrong!
All good points, if you can get people to agree to that. Instead, the world is heading in the other direction and leaving smaller, more liberal countries like Canada behind. I am looking at the current chaos that is the U.S. and asking myself, how much longer will my basic freedoms be viable now? We have already lost so much and will be losing a lot more quickly now and my wife and I are getting a little scared. I mentioned to some people in a Facebook group consisting of people living in Aroostook County, Maine, that maybe the most northern, eastern and western counties could be assimilated into Quebec and New Brunswick. A good portion of the people there all have relatives on both sides of the borders, and for people like me, I can trace recent ancestors from Canada. I have a grandfather on my mother's side who immigrated from Prince Edward Island. As my father was born in Washburn, Maine, Aroostook County, if Aroostook County were to be given to Canada, I wondered if I could apply for Canadian citizenship someday because of my grandfather and father's birth places, if things get really bad down here.
Food for thought as I think about your partner leaving New England to immigrate to New Brunswick. How many other people living in the northern U.S. border areas can claim recent Canadian ancestry or actual Canadian relatives in order to apply for immigration to Canada in the near future? Will Canada even recognize something like that with everything happening between the two countries now?
Those are questions that are difficult to answer. I suppose we'll have to see how it goes as things heat up- will Canada become more open to American immigrants, or shut down?
I hope we don't close our borders. The way things are going, I think marginalized American citizens at the very least should be granted the option to apply for refugee status.
My partner can claim Canadian ancestry, for sure, but I don't know if it's going to help us. Either way, I'm determined to get him out, and he's determined to leave.
I think you are right on. Although personally, I would throw free higher education in as well.
I honestly don't see your views as particularly progressive, I see them as being reasonable, common sense functions of a responsible government. As a United States citizen, I had naively assumed that a majority of Americans were enlightened enough to agree with you and I. Man, was I wrong!
Good call on education! I heartily agree with that; that's a silly oversight for me to forget it in this piece.
And that's the funny thing, isn't it? This SHOULDN'T be radical or odd to anybody, it should be the basic expectations! We live in awful times.
All good points, if you can get people to agree to that. Instead, the world is heading in the other direction and leaving smaller, more liberal countries like Canada behind. I am looking at the current chaos that is the U.S. and asking myself, how much longer will my basic freedoms be viable now? We have already lost so much and will be losing a lot more quickly now and my wife and I are getting a little scared. I mentioned to some people in a Facebook group consisting of people living in Aroostook County, Maine, that maybe the most northern, eastern and western counties could be assimilated into Quebec and New Brunswick. A good portion of the people there all have relatives on both sides of the borders, and for people like me, I can trace recent ancestors from Canada. I have a grandfather on my mother's side who immigrated from Prince Edward Island. As my father was born in Washburn, Maine, Aroostook County, if Aroostook County were to be given to Canada, I wondered if I could apply for Canadian citizenship someday because of my grandfather and father's birth places, if things get really bad down here.
Food for thought as I think about your partner leaving New England to immigrate to New Brunswick. How many other people living in the northern U.S. border areas can claim recent Canadian ancestry or actual Canadian relatives in order to apply for immigration to Canada in the near future? Will Canada even recognize something like that with everything happening between the two countries now?
Those are questions that are difficult to answer. I suppose we'll have to see how it goes as things heat up- will Canada become more open to American immigrants, or shut down?
I hope we don't close our borders. The way things are going, I think marginalized American citizens at the very least should be granted the option to apply for refugee status.
My partner can claim Canadian ancestry, for sure, but I don't know if it's going to help us. Either way, I'm determined to get him out, and he's determined to leave.