Damn, Canada is mostly empty land

[packman]

50% of Canadians live South of the Red line - Mostly around Canadian Great Lake Area and Nova Scotia

[True Dough]

1. Can you blame us?

We appreciate a little warmth too! It's damn cold way up north!

[packman]

3. Don't get me wrong -

It just must be magnificent , all that open land. Must be like what America (The U.S.) was like at one time , unspoiled and pristine. But, you folks got that shale oil shit going on up there.

[True Dough]

6. The oil sands (or "tar sands") have taken a real hit

with a barrel of oil priced so low over the past few years. There's been a great deal of consolidation within the oil sands as smaller companies sell off their holdings. Even some of the majors are cutting their losses and selling to other giants that still see a future there.

Anyway, it could all be yours if Dolt 45 decides that the U.S. should still be pursuing a policy of Manifest Destiny (although someone would have to explain it to him in very elementary terms).

[Yavin4]

2. Looks like a map of Northern Westeros from "Game of Thrones"

How is the Wall?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I remember looking out an airplane window

on a flight from Minneapolis to Anchorage, and for miles and miles I could see no signs of human habitation, not even roads. I thought that was pretty neat, actually.

[sharp_stick]

5. I think it's close but I'm not sure if it's accurate.

Something like 6.5 million people live the Greater Toronto Area alone. The population of Canada is 35 million so that's almost 20% right there.

Nova Scotia only has about 3% of the population and Ontario as a whole is about 38%. It's a lot of people but it's not half.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_of_Canada

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. Maybe go further south of that red line.

If you factor in the numbers living in FL, NC, TX, AZ, CA you might get to half.

[applegrove]

10. I think Ottawa and Montreal are included in that map.

[left-of-center2012]

11. And toss in ...

Winnipeg, Vancouver, Calgary. Edmonton, Saskatoon, etc.

[Yonnie3]

8. They are massing on the border preparing to attack.

I saw it on the internet, so ...

[sharp_stick]

12. The first line of defense is

a massive series of donut and coffee shops to slow the offensive.

[Stuart G]

14. And........how about "Deep Dish Pizza"....maybe that will keep them from invading

and taking over our government........................wait..............................

......................don't they have better medical care then us???????..................................

......................perhaps that wouldn't be so bad?????????????????

[Kaleva]

15. Defence Scheme No. 1. Canada's plan to invade the US.

"Defence Scheme No. 1 was created on April 12, 1921, and details a surprise invasion of the northern United States as soon as possible after evidence was received of an American invasion of Canada. It assumed that the Americans would first attempt to capture Montreal and Ottawa, then Hamilton, Toronto, the prairie provinces, and Vancouver and southwest British Columbia. Defence Scheme No. 1's American counterpart was War Plan Red, a plan to invade Canada as part of a war with Britain, created in 1930.[1]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Scheme_No._1

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. Another weird fact about Canada:

The southernmost point of Canada is further south than the northernmost point of California.

[Stuart G]

13. Oh My....You didn't know??

...Well, try driving from Ottawa to say Jasper National Park...You will see a lot of land, not many people............

But you have got to drive that distance..say 2200 miles....in order to appreciate how empty Canada is.

The shortest driving route takes you through parts of the USA ...those parts in the northern states, well they aren't exactly crowded either....

[femmocrat]

16. Plenty of room for US citizens when we migrate!

Could be soon! And I don't mind the cold.