I’m Canadian, and I plan to never visit the USA again.

Ever.

There is no “…until” for me. The world without the US is easily big enough for me.

Two places I always wanted to see were New Orleans and Hawaii. The latter might end up breaking away, but New Orleans is probably off my list forever.

I get your point, but what is needed is for Canada to be the adult in the room.

A lot of people - including me - instinctively say “good, let’s make it the four eyes and exclude the US.”

But really, we need to do away with the x-eyes program entirely, in its current form.

Shared intelligence is great, but the biggest advantage to 5Eyes has always been that it indirectly allows countries to spy on their own citizens. It’s invasive, illegal bullshit that needs to stop.

He’d be OK with that.

Sell them to Cuba.

I think Canada needs to accept a stopgap measure - the Gripen, Typhoon, Rafale, or Super Hornet - and dive headfirst into GCAP. FCAS is tempting as well, but GCAP is farther along and the countries are probably closer in goals to Canada.

Sorry, but this is pathetic.

edit To be clear, celebrity boxing matches for charity are a common, fun thing. The head coaches of two rival sports teams, or the mayors of different cities do this sort of thing. Sometimes as part of a friendly rivalry when trade negotiations are getting tense, sure.

But the US is declaring war on us. The time for fun and games with the US is over. We deal with them politically, diplomatically, and economically; and as coldly as possible.