Can Canada be a superpower?

It would pretty much take open borders to get the population needed by the 1900s.

Maybe if Canada had open borders for Europeans up through the sixties they could double their white population (around 60 million total white people) and then from the 70s onward if they allowed four million foreigners to move to the country per year provided they had skills (college degree, wealth, or even something like a insanely high IQ and off the chart test scores for various minors who could be allowed into Canadian schools) and retained three out of four million of them that could do it. Improve the business climate to help the transition towards Canada as the economic center of the world and relax restrictions of new constructions to a significant degree as well.

Three million people a year on net for forty years would get them 120 million people, throw in children and Canada maybe has 240 million extra people from that. Assuming they make $65,000 per year would be 15.6 trillion dollars a year. Throw in sixty million pre 1970s law white people who make about $65,000 each as well for another 3.9 trillion, and that gets us 19.5 trillion dollar a year GDP.

Their economy would be the largest in the world. They could set themselves up to be the weaker of the two Super Powers and focus primarily on Soft Power, but still be a Super Power overall. Co Super Powers.
 
Are you American or Canadian? If the latter then you know nothing of Alaskan Grizzlies. We tamed them for you, otherwise the Grizzly uprising would have had the crucial reinforcements to eat your Mounties and wear their hats and prevent forest fires.
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You see the fearsome Mountie eating bears we have to deal with??? He used that shovel to bury the remains of the fire he roasted him on. And is wearing his hat.
It wasn't the great grizzly bear uprising, it was the great bear uprising, have you ever seen a polar bear? And their leader I swear he had armour on and called himself a n archduke it was terrifying.
Besides it's not the bears we have to worry about, it's the moose.
 

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It wasn't the great grizzly bear uprising, it was the great bear uprising, have you ever seen a polar bear? And their leader I swear he had armour on and called himself a n archduke it was terrifying.
Besides it's not the bears we have to worry about, it's the moose.
Quietly though the sea lions took over behind the scenes. You think the lizard people are a problem? Trudeau is actually a sea lion in skin of a human he killed.
 
Quietly though the sea lions took over behind the scenes. You think the lizard people are a problem? Trudeau is actually a sea lion in skin of a human he killed.
Ehh doesn't matter that much anyway, don't tell anyone but most of us are actually just sasquatches who shave to fit in
We made an ancient pact with the British, we would pretend to be white people to further their goals in North America and in return they would keep the Americans out.
 

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Ehh doesn't matter that much anyway, don't tell anyone but most of us are actually just sasquatches who shave to fit in
We made an ancient pact with the British, we would pretend to be white people to further their goals in North America and in return they would keep the Americans out.
I've read what you've done fighting in Britain's wars, doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
 

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Who do you think taught us? We named a whole province in their honour for they taught us the ways of war
As a part Scot and having visited the country I know their dirty work. That's why Canadians are a mix of Sasquatches and Scottish settlers.
 
As a part Scot and having visited the country I know their dirty work. That's why Canadians are a mix of Sasquatches and Scottish settlers.
What else but the spawn of Scotsmen and semi feral beasts would play a "game" where you strap blades to your feet and then beat each other to a pulp on frozen bodies of water with such fervor?
 
Three million people a year on net for forty years would get them 120 million people, throw in children and Canada maybe has 240 million extra people from that.
Ugh, no thanks. One of the best parts about living here is the wide open, unpopulated spaces.

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I've a friend who's planning to ride the new Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Highway, http://ith.dot.gov.nt.ca/ Getting there is half the adventure, 80 hours of riding https://goo.gl/maps/AbZiZp5QAk92
 
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At the end of the Second World War, Canada's navy was strong.

At the end of the Second World War, Canada had the third-largest navy in the world with 95,000 men and women in uniform, and 434 commissioned vessels including cruisers, destroyers, frigates, corvettes and auxiliaries. http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/canadian-armed-forces/royal-canadian-navy/sww

But this was not sustainable on a peacetime economy, especially since I'm sure Canada did not have to fuel, feed or arm this navy entirely on its own dime.

Not to mention, no offense, that it's pretty misleading. Don't get me wrong; I've seen the stat before. I remember it being taught as a point of pride in grade 11 social studies.

However, I can't see a way to gimmick the RCN past both the French and the Soviets in any meaningful way. It might be true for Japan, depending on how you count the numbers. If it's true for France, it can only possibly be for a brief window during the reorganization of the French military.

I don't think it's reasonable to argue that there was ever a point where Canada had an "established" presence, as it were, in the number three position, if in fact we were ever there.

Edited to add: I see from a quick search that Rob Stuart has a piece on this in the Naval Review reaching similar conclusions to me: http://www.navalreview.ca/wp-content/uploads/public/vol5num3/vol5num3art2.pdf
 

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What else but the spawn of Scotsmen and semi feral beasts would play a "game" where you strap blades to your feet and then beat each other to a pulp on frozen bodies of water with such fervor?
Really drunk people with nothing better to do and an inability to play football?
 
Just because the entire rest of the world has been fooled into calling it football doesn't mean I have been. Fight the power!
They are all football, they are the many off shoots of association football (soccer for people who still use the proper English name for it, ironically not the english), rugby football (this one also became the North American versions of the game) and I'm not sure where Aussie and gaelic football fit into the picture but technically speaking they are all kinds of football.
 
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