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America isn’t any better. Depending on what statistic you are looking at, 40% to 75% of all Americans live within 100 miles of the border
Lake Michigan isn’t a border…
It is a border between wet and dry.
Due to the Straits of Mackinac, the CBP considers it to be so.
I don’t get it. The border is north of the UP.
Why do the straights count?
Because they want more jurisdiction and got it.
That would still make Chicago. The third largest city in America further than 100 miles from the border.
I reckon you can sail from lake superior to Chicago and not pass customs until Chicago.
Considering the relative surface areas, with those percentages you provided, actually, yes, America is less consolidated.
The United States also has eight times the total population. I only saw one source that said 40% and the overwhelming majority said either 2/3 or something in the low 70%
Could it be that one source referred only to places with an actual border, while the rest included anything within 160 km of any coast?
can ice do more shit in the 100 mile zone or nah?
ICE isn’t CBP though. They technically don’t have jurisdiction over American citizens. CBP does.
They’ve started using CBP agents for immigration raids…
technically dont have jurisdiction
Oh. Im sure all the citizens they kidnap are very comforted by that.
Yes and it includes ‘within 100 miles of an airport’.
so basically the entire us?
Yep, which is why its more or less blatant ignorance of the constitution
Pretty sure it’s not ignorance, otherwise how would they clean their butts?
who ever claimed ICE cleans their butts?
Then how do they get so nuch shit and ass hair on the constitution?
Don’t be such a hyperbolic drama queen; I’m sure theres like a ten square foot area in south dakota or something.
Bold of you to think any part of the Constitution actually applies down here.
…of which border?
Sorry. I clarified with a photo in my post.
I did a quick search online to get the percentage and I saw one result at 40% and the rest were all between 70 and 75% of the US population lives in the 100 mile zone
The border with the ocean probably, humans love to live on the crust of the land
The American one
John Candy tried to warn us. They’re preparing for an invasion!
Us? You-S-A tarriff’d the world!
<sincerity> I know you’re joking :P It’s legit a potential weakness actually. Trump could invade with very little resistance beyond the border, our population was too focused on trade by land and now we’ve had to reconsider our priorities. Also, the image neglects Edmonton’s existence. </sincerity>
Yeah, and that whole TransCanada highway being a massive choke point
Wait, are you implying it can’t be a choke point as an East-West route? Or implying it is a choke point for Edmonton? Or am I missing the point?
I was just saying that during a hypothetical invasion by Trump it would be a choke point
It’s hard to build stuff in the shield.
Ayyyy one of the 15% that doesn’t live near the border checking in 😎
How’s the weather up there?
#COLD
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In B.C.'s defense, imo, most of the land to the North is either too mountainous [1][2.1] or has too harsh a climate [2.2] to be realistically inhabitable. I think it’s also worth noting that 15.4% of B.C.'s lands are protected [3].
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Ten mountain ranges push west from the Canadian Rockies in the east to the Coast Mountains and the Vancouver Island Ranges in the west, and ancient temperate rainforests hug the coast. In between are rolling grasslands, lush valleys, tens of thousands of lakes, glacier-fed rivers, and even semi-arid desert. Mountains cover 75% of the province.
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[…] Protected lands and waters cover 15.4% of B.C.'s land base and 3.2% of B.C.'s marine areas. […]
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the rest is on fire. burning for decades. wind shifted of late
LOL! I believe the Quebecois along the St. Lawrence should be included.
I have a friend who grew up in northern canada. It’s horror stories all the way down for my warm, balmy weather loving butt. Even my friend from minnesota scared me… I couldn’t believe the canadian terror.
How Eastern Canada and BC thinks Canada looks like.
Drives me nuts that Ontario is considered “Eastern Canada”
Accurate.
There’s plenty of room for activities! Like… sledding.
And ice fishing in some spot which you’ve sledded to.
And freezing.
You can also have a foot race with a Polar Bear. It’s fun and if you win, you get to live for another day.
Huh so that’s what the 401 looks like
I wish I could move to Tuktoyaktuk
The Canadian Musket
They’ve played the game “Risk” so much they have unrealistic expectations of settlement patterns in real life
