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The Handmaid’s Tale showrunners know why Trump might want to annex Canada: to prevent Americans escaping

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No, it is because the tar sands have made Canada into a massive oil producer
- Yeah, kinda, and it's a fairly unique source of oil at that. From my understanding extraction and refinement is initially considerably more expensive than than most other sources of crude, but that's mainly due to the high upfront costs. The upside is that there's also very little falloff of production, so it'll keep producing for a long period without the need to churn through new drilling sites.
Atwood drew from reality when she wrote the handmaids tale, it’s only become more and more intensified since she wrote it. And the US is gonna annex Canada over my dead body (and that of 40 million others). They could definitely try to annex us but they would never be able to hold Canada.
Ah yes, people who ripped off a novel to make a TV show are absolutely experts on why Trump is attempting to annex Canada like there isn't hundreds of other countries slobbering over US brain drain, or in other words, "Americans escaping".
In before "but it is just like 1984" and "Idiocracy was too real, look around!".
- Do you have a source for that number?
  
  The wait-list for a specialized therapist can be up to 12 months. Compare that to: http://eol.law.dal.ca/?page_id=2472
  The wait-list there is 90 days. I guess it's actually just 4 times easier in some situations.

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