• qwestjest78 ( qwestjest78@lemmy.ca ) 
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    20 days ago

    I don’t get why the U.S. would own this little end of land that is connected to Canada and completely cut off from the U.S. It should just be part of Canada to make it easier for everyone. One less border crossing they need to man

    • nyan ( nyan@lemmy.cafe ) 
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      19 days ago

      Usually, this happens because someone drew a line on a map and called that the border without thinking about the practicalities.

    • I don’t see why LPC feds should care? I mean, beyond basic human decency. This is US policies and actions applied to US PRs. It had nothing to do with Canada or Canadian laws. Why don’t you leave the blame where it rightly lies, with the US and its unconstitutional gulag?

      • You don’t “see why” our elected federal government should care while a Canadian citizen dies trying to evade a foreign governments interment camp dragnet?

        Do you know how many articles we were bombarded with for years about the “2 Michaels?”

        If she was in China or Iran the media and the government would be setting up entire circus parades.

        I swear the LPC ball polishing in this group is at the level of parody.

        • She was a US PR who had been willingly living in the US for 14 years. Her Canadian citizenship is only an incidental fact that has no relation to the story; she could have been from anywhere. This was not a political move against Canada the way Spavor and Kovrig were. It was very unfortunate, and we should be sad about her death, and sad about the state of the US, but this is not the doing of any party, government, policy, or law in Canada. This was done solely by the US. They created this situation, they pushed her to her death. If you can’t see that, you’re either incredibly disingenuous or stupid.