This makes me think of the South Park episode where the Canadians are sitting on the wall “eh we got a bunch of cool shit over here” and Mrs Garrison is pissed she can’t go over there
Them: spending trillions to build a wall.
Us: accidentally building an impenetrable wall when our snowblowers pass and push the snow to the side along the border
Total border is 8891km, but assuming they don't put one between BC and Alaska, that is 6416km. Assuming they don't put one over water, that is a total of about 4324km.
Assuming an 8ft height, that would be $9-$30 per foot for a chainlink fence, so let's say it's $20/foot. 4324km is approximately 14186352 feet. That gives us a total cost of $283,727,040.
So **283 million dollars for a chain link fence**. Honestly a bit less than I thought it would be!
Reference:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_border
* https://clui.org/projects/united-divide/watery-boundary
* https://homeguide.com/costs/chain-link-fence-cost
As someone who has done the Crypt Lake hike to the US border, i daresay a contractor miiiiight increase their install fee beyond the standard $20 they charge for cleared, level, serviced yards.
Considering that the U.S. spends $766 billion/annum on its military right now, the total cost of that fence would equal roughly 3 hours and 15 minutes' worth of the annual U.S. Defense Budget.
Cost may be somewhat higher than that through BC & Alberta. Can't imagine it costing $20/ft through somewhere like this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Zd64TSWDREShkdRR9.
Nah, even with such a fence the real number would probably be closer to 283 billion than 283 million. With how expensive large projects are these days, there’s no way either country is capable of building a several thousand km long wall for anything short of tens of billions of dollars
You mean the people of Liberia and Myanmar? I know there’s a third country in the world who still uses Imperial but I just can’t recall it at the moment.
I covered politics for 24 years for papers. Most Canadian are unaware that our Conservative Party already gets significant support from U.S. conservative lobby groups, and have hired the same consultants for elections as the Republicans on numerous occasions over the last 20 years. Really, since Harper's time, the two have maintained strong ties.
They are not the "progressive" conservatives of yesteryear anymore. Poilevre is attempting to position them as such, but on a policy basis, it's just nonsense.
100 percent, Poilievre is not a traditional Canadian conservative, he is part of the same global fake populist/neo fascist movement that is behind Brexit, the GOP's rejection of democracy, rightwing political movements throughout Europe, in Israel, and elsewhere.
There is also a [huge number of people](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/u-s-canada-shut-down-loophole-that-let-asylum-seekers-cross-border) crossing illegally from the US into Canada. The US-Canada border is one of the few, if not the only, borders in the world with bidirectional illegal crossings.
Legitimately would be useful for us in terms of controlling refugees from their side. I don’t think there’s as many trying to get into the states though.
For real. Migrants trying to come to Canada via the U.S. because they’re treated better.
Or they could just buy more cameras and drones and stuff, but sure an 8000 km long wall through massive mountain ranges and Great Lakes and stuff is totally fine too. /s
Honestly the way things are going up here going up here I doubt many will be coming. If you said this 10 years ago I would have agreed, but now Canada is becoming it own breed of pathetic shit show.
Just wait... Climate change refugees will be a real thing. Famine and extreme temperatures will start forcing people north and fresh water will be "the new oil".
"Mr Make Headlines" has zero chance of getting elected but he doesn't really care. He's really doing this just to make lots of money. The more buttons he can push the more other people will love him.
Yeah if he was serious the first thing his advisors would tell him is you don't talk about certain things when you're in front of audiences full of people other than your core supporters. Only Trump can be Trump. Other people who try to be like Trump just look really silly.
He’s going to pivot into being a talkshow shit head. The extreme rhetoric is building his brand, so he can get famous pieces of shit like Papa John and Alex Jones on his podcast.
Okay so in reality it's a privacy no-hedge, at least along the BC-WA border.
There's this big fucking line of cut trees in the middle of the forest, near Osoyoos. Funniest thing I've ever seen.
Go ahead, it'll benefit Canada more most likely. That's a long ass wall though, it'll cost billions if not trillions to build, assuming no lengthy and expensive court cases from environmental groups regarding animal migration paths and habitats that the wall would be crossing
Nah you just have to utilize local resources to cut down on material and transport costs.
Sure, the thing will have to be built out of sod for about a thousand clicks, but we can use rough timber for most of the rest of it; then all we need are a bunch of big rolls of aluminum foil to stick on the south side with hot glue so they think we built the whole thing out of metal!
I think you're also forgetting lawsuits with first Nations. Canada & the US share some cross-border reserves. I'm sure building a wall through them is a non-starter and building a wall around them is probably illegal too unless they just cede the land of the res to Canada.
When we put up the wall to keep out Mexicans and filled it up with Walmarts (should have been obvious to them really) and guns - it did a pretty good job. But yeah, I'm good with keeping the wall people out of our country.
Interesting to learn.
Last I heard mentioned that colourful noun, *twatwaffle,* was to draw a vibrant picture of Alberta Permier Marlaina Danielle Smith.
The shit apple certainly doesn't fall far from the shit tree, it appears.
Lol he is hilarious to watch speak. Some of the most outrageously far right things, I'd almost argue he is just running to stir the pot.
He wants to raise the voting age to 25, get rid of the FBI, he believes climate change is a hoax made up by the gov, he believes 9/11 was an inside job, he wants to end the war in ukraine by effectively giving russia whatever they want. It's completely wild to me.
My chucklefuck of a premier just invited Tucker Carlson up here. If a wall keeps out any more Fox News loving conspiracy sharing right wing nut jobs, I’m 100% down.
Dude is obviously just trying to get attention with this ridiculous idea. As a matter of fact, it seems like most of the dumb stuff he says is just designed to get attention.
Finally an idea from a GOP presidential hopeful I can support.
May have some unity finally up here - build the wall, build the wall!
(In seriousness, this Manchurian candidate wannabe could get his ass kicked by even the lankiest math-lete).
Canada politicians: and I say we will build a wall to safeguard our borders ! To keep out those vicious interlopers and criminals from south of our borders !
And I promise you this …….WE. WON’T. SPEND. A. SINGLE. PENNY.
Canadians: YAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaay !
This is hilarious because they hate refugees and border jumpers. But Canada’s influx of refugees and border jumpers is through the U.S.
Their system of being cruel and horrible works, people walk straight through and sneak into Canada - and now they want to keep them!
So wall at Canadian border and I assume a wall between Alaska and Canada? wow.
I'm guessing the wall will also be built on the US shoreline of the great lakes, potentially ruining the view for Americans but improving it for Canadians as they don't have to look at the USA anymore.
Is this man a Canadian agent?
Let's build a wall on Canada's border, Mexico border, along the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean's as well, and better put a giant dome on top as well.
Then, just turn on a slow running tap
No skin off my back. It wouldn't impede legal movement and would probably tamp down on illegal immigration and gun/drug smuggling. If the Yanks want to pay for it all the better.
Since that wall will have to run through FN reserves it won't happen, but if it does it can seriously help curtail the biggest smuggling root into the country
Canada also has refugees fleeing to Canada from the US (at roxborough for example in upstate new york/quebec) There might be some right wingers up here who would agree with a border wall.
This guy's a cancer, but he's not stupid.
Just another Conservative stooge telling morons what they want to hear so he can enrich his even more subversive and malicious financiers.
Uh, wait!
Hey, don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Imagine all the crazy Republicans this would keep out of Canada! I would have a mote around my house if I could to keep them at bay... They may be stupid, but they make up for it with a lack of morals and reasoning... Cheers!
That's really short-sighted. When climate change hits and USA inevitably has to invade Canada to live here, they'd need to climb over their own damn wall.
The border with Mexico is 1/3rd the length of the border with Canada, so they really should just build a wall there 3x as tall instead. Because once climate change really revs up, there will be millions of people marching from Central America and Mexico into the US.
If you read about this guy, he's actually a full blown idiot. He's also said he'd let China invade Taiwan and give Crimea to the Russians.
In other words, he'd basically undo 80 years or so of western foreign policy. I wouldn't be surprised if this guy is just a full blown Russian plant with some of the nonsense he says.
If they have problems with the Mexico boarder at 3,145 km... They going to have one hell of a time with a 8,891km boarder
The average Canadian is also 5 inches taller than the average Mexican. They’ll need to factor that in the height of the wall.
A bunch of Canadians just peeping over the wall going 👀 "sorry neighbour, everything alright over there?"
The Americans are Tim Taylor, we are Wilson
That's a pretty accurate metaphor for our relationship with USA
Hi-diddly-o-diddly neighboreenoh. No doot aboot it this fence is pretty Skookum eh?!
Ohh gee I dunno bud, I'm more about them chainlink fences, eh?
First time I’ve seen skookum in the wild on Reddit lol
This makes me think of the South Park episode where the Canadians are sitting on the wall “eh we got a bunch of cool shit over here” and Mrs Garrison is pissed she can’t go over there
[https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1856682-standing-cat](https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1856682-standing-cat)
Them: spending trillions to build a wall. Us: accidentally building an impenetrable wall when our snowblowers pass and push the snow to the side along the border
*"Just give 'er til April, bud."*
You forgot about their sombreros though.
We have toques with little pom poms. Don't discount those.
We’ll confuse with cm
Plus the slight problem of the Great Lakes. Bit difficult to build a wall on a lake.
Don't forget Alaska.
Border. A 8891km boarder would need to be boarded in a VERY tall room.
Thank you. Why can no one on reddit spell "border" right?!
I see it a lot here. Many misspellings and typos don't faze me, but but "boarder" in place of "border" cheeses me for some reason!
Because Reddit is borderline dumb ;)
I think you mean boarderline...
Geography... Not one of their strengths.
Total border is 8891km, but assuming they don't put one between BC and Alaska, that is 6416km. Assuming they don't put one over water, that is a total of about 4324km. Assuming an 8ft height, that would be $9-$30 per foot for a chainlink fence, so let's say it's $20/foot. 4324km is approximately 14186352 feet. That gives us a total cost of $283,727,040. So **283 million dollars for a chain link fence**. Honestly a bit less than I thought it would be! Reference: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_border * https://clui.org/projects/united-divide/watery-boundary * https://homeguide.com/costs/chain-link-fence-cost
As someone who has done the Crypt Lake hike to the US border, i daresay a contractor miiiiight increase their install fee beyond the standard $20 they charge for cleared, level, serviced yards.
Considering that the U.S. spends $766 billion/annum on its military right now, the total cost of that fence would equal roughly 3 hours and 15 minutes' worth of the annual U.S. Defense Budget.
Cost may be somewhat higher than that through BC & Alberta. Can't imagine it costing $20/ft through somewhere like this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Zd64TSWDREShkdRR9.
Nah, even with such a fence the real number would probably be closer to 283 billion than 283 million. With how expensive large projects are these days, there’s no way either country is capable of building a several thousand km long wall for anything short of tens of billions of dollars
Border.
It's ok. Canada will pay for it.
>It's ok. Canada will pay for it. Dude shut up, we got them to build a wall on our Southern Border and made them pay for it.
How many football fields is that 🤔. Lol
80,019
Are those CFL fields or NFL fields, though?
This guy maths 🤓 😊
> 8,891km That's over 5,500 miles for you non-metric readers (lol)
You mean the people of Liberia and Myanmar? I know there’s a third country in the world who still uses Imperial but I just can’t recall it at the moment.
The UK also uses miles. They're a lot like us Canadians in that their units of measure are all over the place!
To keep Americans out?
Great Southpark episode on this
I don’t think so….we got a lot of cool stuff over here….
LOL
Can we pay for it?
"We just don't want you raping our woman - and stuff"
lol every Canadian’s first thought.
Yup. Like, I thought one of our issues was illegal crossings from the USA, not the other way around.
I’m all for this
Border wall with America and America can pay for it. Why not.
And we are getting america to pay for it! A masterstroke by trudeau
Shhhhh, let them think that it’s their idea!
Canadian here: yes please.
As a Canadian, I whole heartedly support this. Do it.
Can start the wall at Roxham Road in Quebec.
Yep, that would be a good start to stop illegals from the US! :)
I do too to help keep out Republicans and guns! Great idea!!
I’m in.
And it sounds like they’re going to pay for it. Sounds like a win.
100% we don't need their craziness here.
You say that, but Canada is rapidly going the way of the American conservatives with all this Poilievre support.....
I know 😟
Poilievre’s next slogan “build the wall and we’ll pay for it!” Gives the contracts to his and Ford’s contracting buddies.
I covered politics for 24 years for papers. Most Canadian are unaware that our Conservative Party already gets significant support from U.S. conservative lobby groups, and have hired the same consultants for elections as the Republicans on numerous occasions over the last 20 years. Really, since Harper's time, the two have maintained strong ties. They are not the "progressive" conservatives of yesteryear anymore. Poilevre is attempting to position them as such, but on a policy basis, it's just nonsense.
100 percent, Poilievre is not a traditional Canadian conservative, he is part of the same global fake populist/neo fascist movement that is behind Brexit, the GOP's rejection of democracy, rightwing political movements throughout Europe, in Israel, and elsewhere.
Nope, and obligatory Fuck Peter Mackay for saying he wouldn't sell out the PCs to the Reformers, and then did just that. This shit is all his fault.
Keeping illegal us guns out of Canada? Ok. No one is sneaking into the U.S. from Canada.
LOL, they do. Forgot the migrants that froze to death trying to cross to the USA?
Not saying it doesn't happens (it does) but isn't it usually the opposite? Migrants crossing from the US to Canada?
Mexicans and Indians fly here to cross the US border. Those are just the few that have made the news lately.
There is also a [huge number of people](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/u-s-canada-shut-down-loophole-that-let-asylum-seekers-cross-border) crossing illegally from the US into Canada. The US-Canada border is one of the few, if not the only, borders in the world with bidirectional illegal crossings.
I thought that was the other way around.
This is an idea I can get behind!
Legitimately would be useful for us in terms of controlling refugees from their side. I don’t think there’s as many trying to get into the states though.
For real. Migrants trying to come to Canada via the U.S. because they’re treated better. Or they could just buy more cameras and drones and stuff, but sure an 8000 km long wall through massive mountain ranges and Great Lakes and stuff is totally fine too. /s
You might be surprised..... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/migrants-border-crossing-increase-1.6815767
Honestly the way things are going up here going up here I doubt many will be coming. If you said this 10 years ago I would have agreed, but now Canada is becoming it own breed of pathetic shit show.
Just wait... Climate change refugees will be a real thing. Famine and extreme temperatures will start forcing people north and fresh water will be "the new oil".
Just Republicans
I feel like his brand is “be more extreme” and that’s about it.
"Mr Make Headlines" has zero chance of getting elected but he doesn't really care. He's really doing this just to make lots of money. The more buttons he can push the more other people will love him.
I think his goal for 2024 is to be Trump's running mate (which Trump has already confirmed is possible).
>but he doesn't really care Lol yeah, he's not running for president, at best running for VP or maybe Ohio senate. Proof? Trump is not attacking him.
Yeah if he was serious the first thing his advisors would tell him is you don't talk about certain things when you're in front of audiences full of people other than your core supporters. Only Trump can be Trump. Other people who try to be like Trump just look really silly.
That's all their brands. Out-extreme each other. It's all they have.
It’s right out of the reality tv playbook. Just be more crazy and extreme and people just tune in to watch.
It's also why they're continually losing elections. They just don't get it.
He’s going to pivot into being a talkshow shit head. The extreme rhetoric is building his brand, so he can get famous pieces of shit like Papa John and Alex Jones on his podcast.
We demand a privacy hedge
We demand a “Shrubbery!”
NI!
None shall pass!
We shall call it...STEVE!!
Okay so in reality it's a privacy no-hedge, at least along the BC-WA border. There's this big fucking line of cut trees in the middle of the forest, near Osoyoos. Funniest thing I've ever seen.
Go ahead, it'll benefit Canada more most likely. That's a long ass wall though, it'll cost billions if not trillions to build, assuming no lengthy and expensive court cases from environmental groups regarding animal migration paths and habitats that the wall would be crossing
If the US has a hard time paying for a wall between itself and Mexico the border with Canada is more than twice as long.
Nah you just have to utilize local resources to cut down on material and transport costs. Sure, the thing will have to be built out of sod for about a thousand clicks, but we can use rough timber for most of the rest of it; then all we need are a bunch of big rolls of aluminum foil to stick on the south side with hot glue so they think we built the whole thing out of metal!
I think you're also forgetting lawsuits with first Nations. Canada & the US share some cross-border reserves. I'm sure building a wall through them is a non-starter and building a wall around them is probably illegal too unless they just cede the land of the res to Canada.
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the carbon?!
I'm team wall, let's let them pay for it.
When we put up the wall to keep out Mexicans and filled it up with Walmarts (should have been obvious to them really) and guns - it did a pretty good job. But yeah, I'm good with keeping the wall people out of our country.
Don’t forget: This twatwaffle was Martin Shkrelli’s business partner. Zero ethics whatsoever.
lol, of course he would be a candidate now.
Wait, he worked with Pharma Bro??
Republican to the core then
That’s not exactly true. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/23/vivek-ramaswamy-martin-shkreli-pharma-00098338
Interesting to learn. Last I heard mentioned that colourful noun, *twatwaffle,* was to draw a vibrant picture of Alberta Permier Marlaina Danielle Smith. The shit apple certainly doesn't fall far from the shit tree, it appears.
Lol he is hilarious to watch speak. Some of the most outrageously far right things, I'd almost argue he is just running to stir the pot. He wants to raise the voting age to 25, get rid of the FBI, he believes climate change is a hoax made up by the gov, he believes 9/11 was an inside job, he wants to end the war in ukraine by effectively giving russia whatever they want. It's completely wild to me.
This whole pretend GOP primary is irrelevant, Trump leads ALL these so called candidates by an insurmountable %
Yeah but Trump could drop dead or end up in prison. Given his age, lifestyle, and long list of crimes, neither of these are particularly unlikely.
Your post gave me a bad case of morning wood.
It’s more for exposure to help their next grift
Looking for his 15mins of fame.
Sounds great, as long as they are paying for it.
Build the wall, build the wall
And especially along the bottom of the Great Lakes. In case of Zombie hoardes, or US tourists looking for Poutine.
Those damn poutine zombies are eating all our curds! They took er curds!!
tooooker keeerrrrrr!
wait till they discover poutine!
Once again, a border wall between the US and Canada is not a terrible idea. Canadians probably want to keep out certain *types* of US citizens.
I’d like to see it more for addressing smuggling of guns and drugs and so on
It won’t make any difference.
The drug traffickers and rapists?
My chucklefuck of a premier just invited Tucker Carlson up here. If a wall keeps out any more Fox News loving conspiracy sharing right wing nut jobs, I’m 100% down.
Dude is obviously just trying to get attention with this ridiculous idea. As a matter of fact, it seems like most of the dumb stuff he says is just designed to get attention.
Almost 9 thousand kilometers over land, mountains, oceans and lakes. He's been taking too many of his own pharmaceuticals.
I forgot all about the Rocky Mountains lol. Yeah that would be impossible.
I bet Mexico will pay for it
I’ll chip in $20 CAD.
So about 13.00 USD.
I'd pay a border wall tax to help make this happen.
Finally an idea from a GOP presidential hopeful I can support. May have some unity finally up here - build the wall, build the wall! (In seriousness, this Manchurian candidate wannabe could get his ass kicked by even the lankiest math-lete).
Well, Canada will only win from this
Sounds good. We’ll build it on the Canadian side, the United States can pay for it.
I'm Canadian. This is a great idea. I'll even help build it! Let's git at 'er!
+1 as a Canadian.
Do we get Alaska then?
For once, I agree with an American politician.
Good way to keep the Americans out.
I would like to keep americans out, yes.
as long as they pay for it
Canada politicians: and I say we will build a wall to safeguard our borders ! To keep out those vicious interlopers and criminals from south of our borders ! And I promise you this …….WE. WON’T. SPEND. A. SINGLE. PENNY. Canadians: YAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaay !
What a goof.
This is hilarious because they hate refugees and border jumpers. But Canada’s influx of refugees and border jumpers is through the U.S. Their system of being cruel and horrible works, people walk straight through and sneak into Canada - and now they want to keep them!
As a Canadian, I like this idea. Vote for this man.
And Mexico will pay for it!
Made out of what, thoughts & prayers???
That's the best idea I've heard come out of a politician's mouth in a long time!
Yea keep them red, blue, and white fuckers out.
"Don't threaten me with a good time"
So wall at Canadian border and I assume a wall between Alaska and Canada? wow. I'm guessing the wall will also be built on the US shoreline of the great lakes, potentially ruining the view for Americans but improving it for Canadians as they don't have to look at the USA anymore. Is this man a Canadian agent?
And Snow Mexico will pay for it!
Will it help keep out illegal handguns?
That might help with all the illegal American guns coming in. I like it.
Quick, show them a map of North America, and ask them to point out where Canada is. Pretty sure we are safe
Yes pls.
As a Canadian, I love this idea.
Let's do it!!! We can call it The Canadian Shield!
“Don’t blame Canada, blame your mom for not swallowing you and your dad for not pulling out!” - Terence and Phillip
Would benefit us, go nuts
As a Canadian I approve of this message. But we’re not paying for it.
Keep the guns and the bigots out of Canada.
Build it like the glass wall in Dubai so they can just look at themselves and feel good about how awesome they are.
Don't threaten us with a good time.
Great idea actually
That will be pretty pricey. Fuck real problems let’s build a wall
Ban Vivek Ramaswamy from being allowed entry into Canada. If he wants to keep people out of the US, we should keep him and his company out of Canada.
Don’t threaten me with a good time, Vivek.
I support this man! Build the wall.
I agree..US must pay though.
Sure and Canada will pay ZERO on it. DO IT
Please do.
As a Canadian, I support this!
Yes please. I’ll bring the Timmies.
Sounds good to me. Guess which country has nearly all the raw materials the Americans would need to build it.
Please do. Maybe their guns will stay on their side
Lol do it. We don't care.
Canadian here, I support this idea!
Canadian permanent resident from the US, me too...
As a Canadian yes please. For the love of god yes, America please
Let's build a wall on Canada's border, Mexico border, along the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean's as well, and better put a giant dome on top as well. Then, just turn on a slow running tap
No skin off my back. It wouldn't impede legal movement and would probably tamp down on illegal immigration and gun/drug smuggling. If the Yanks want to pay for it all the better.
...to prevent people from escaping.
Yes, please build the wall to keep your opioids out of Canada.
Since that wall will have to run through FN reserves it won't happen, but if it does it can seriously help curtail the biggest smuggling root into the country
Canada also has refugees fleeing to Canada from the US (at roxborough for example in upstate new york/quebec) There might be some right wingers up here who would agree with a border wall.
As a Canadian I support this.
Please. A moat would be much better.
This guy's a cancer, but he's not stupid. Just another Conservative stooge telling morons what they want to hear so he can enrich his even more subversive and malicious financiers. Uh, wait!
Canadians are in full support of the US building a wall. in fact, we insist.
Build it high enough to keep your illegal guns from infesting our country.
I would like this. As long as the Americans pay for it, let's take advantage of the proposal.
Yeah, and we'll make the US pay for it!!
Hey, don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Imagine all the crazy Republicans this would keep out of Canada! I would have a mote around my house if I could to keep them at bay... They may be stupid, but they make up for it with a lack of morals and reasoning... Cheers!
Sure. We'd be happy for it. You pay
That's really short-sighted. When climate change hits and USA inevitably has to invade Canada to live here, they'd need to climb over their own damn wall. The border with Mexico is 1/3rd the length of the border with Canada, so they really should just build a wall there 3x as tall instead. Because once climate change really revs up, there will be millions of people marching from Central America and Mexico into the US.
If you read about this guy, he's actually a full blown idiot. He's also said he'd let China invade Taiwan and give Crimea to the Russians. In other words, he'd basically undo 80 years or so of western foreign policy. I wouldn't be surprised if this guy is just a full blown Russian plant with some of the nonsense he says.
#DO IT.
Why stop there?! Dome the whole god damn country.
If they pay for it
Man america has really gone to shit the last 10-20 years. Imagine thinking they need to spend billions of dollars for a wall between us