Today I got a nasty shock. The people I live next door to, and have had good relations with, have been secretly plotting my demise for years. Why have they been wanting to see me dead and buried? It's simple. They want my land. In fact, this isn't the first time they've connived and planned for my annihilation. They've had some plans in the works since 1860.
Wait..what? My so called "nice" neighbours have been cooking up some dastardly treachery for a 150 years? Boy, do they know how to hold a grudge!
Read on to find out more about this nefarious conspiracy. Just ignore that terra cotta tangerine orange squiggle. It's always in the way...danged thing!
It's true! The good ole United States began hatching plans to annex Canada just after the end of the civil war. In 1866 a Bill to annex Canada was introduced and adopted by the US Congress.
The text of the bill is tantamount to an invasion plan. It was to come into force upon its proclamation by US president Andrew Johnson. It included the territories of British North America from Newfoundland and the Maritimes to British Columbia, extending North into the Hudson Bay territory and North West Territory bordering onto “Russian America”. (i.e Alaska) (See map below)
It consisted in the outright confiscation of public lands. It also implied US control over the trans Canada railway system, waterways, canals as well as control over the Saint Lawrence seaway.
Of course, there was discussion of "compensation" of 10 million dollars to be paid to the Hudson's Bay Company. Cheapskates! A whole country, larger than the US, for a measly 10 mill?
Well we fixed their little red wagon...by adopting the British North America Act in 1867 and becoming a nation ourselves! Neener, neener!
Things were going along swimmingly until 60 odd years later, when your sneaking, underhanded government decided to have another go at getting our land. During the late 1920's the plan was revisited . The idea this time, since they couldn't buy us out, was an actual invasion!!! Yup.. a fucking invasion named: Joint Army and Navy basic War Plan---Red!
It's all PatricK Hurley's fault. He was the Secretary of War at the time. It took him five years to concoct this deviousness. The plan was to build three air bases near the border for the purpose of preemptive strikes against Canadian airfields. The plan also included military invasion by land and sea.
“A bold plan, a bodacious plan, a step-by-step plan to invade, seize and annex our neighbor to the north. …First, we send a joint Army-Navy overseas force to capture the port city of Halifax, cutting the Canadians off from their British allies.
Then we seize Canadian power plants near Niagara Falls, so they freeze in the dark.
Then the U.S. Army invades on three fronts — marching from Vermont to take Montreal and Quebec, charging out of North Dakota to grab the railroad center at Winnipeg, and storming out of the Midwest to capture the strategic nickel mines of Ontario.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy seizes the Great Lakes and blockades Canada’s Atlantic and Pacific ports. … “(Raiding the Icebox; Behind Its Warm Front, the United States Made Cold Calculations to Subdue Canada, by Peter Carlson, Washington Post, 30 December 2005, emphasis added).
Niiice...freeze us in the dark!
And do you know what my country did?
They caved....the cowards. They apparently recognized the almighty superiority (snort) of the US war machine and figured they'd lose a war anyway, so why bother. Pragmatists! We are now obliged to immediately surrender to you, my duplicious friends, should you ever decide to resurrect those invasion plans..coz they are still on the books.
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