I'm seeing some people taking the threats posed by the Trump admin to make Canada the "51st state" both literally and seriously, to the extent they're starting to game out the likelihood of some kind of military action.
Personally I don't take the threat of outright American subversion/invasion/etc seriously yet because I don't see the sort of coordinated propaganda effort I would expect from a country preparing for a military operation this controversial. Nor is there any real constituency of Americans I'm aware of with personal or material animus against Canada - right now I'm only aware of Trump mouthing off and Musk salivating over fake nerd maps.
Let's say I'm wrong though and he really is dumb enough to go full boots on the ground North of the 49th parallleeeeelllllll - what happens? What will the hot zones be? Which premiers will be first on the kill list? and of course.....What Will Quebec Do?
We're all definitely nervous about the whole situation, to be sure.
So far the only thing that gives me some reprieve is how many times Trump has waffled on tariffs: Introducing them, them walking that back, then re-introducing them, then increasing them, and the decreasing them back to what they were before, etc etc. If the motherfucker can't even properly commit to a simple economic sabotage policy (requiring only the White House to issue a directive) then how could he commit to a full scale fucking annexation?
We do have people actively talking about developing nuclear weapons as a deterrent, and nobody seems to think it's a bad idea. We have all the tech we need for it, we'd just need the political will and the directive (although we're sort of in-between Prime Ministers right now and possibly calling an election imminently).
If it did come to pass, we'd probably have no choice but to invoke article 5 of NATO and then watch as nobody does anything to help us.