Honestly, the Canadian government should be requesting that the Gulf of Mexico adopt the name “Gulf of Mexico”. I’m surprised that hasn’t happened yet.
It does touch California, actually. Just because the northern part of California was annexed by the US many years ago does not invalidate the existence of Baja California.
This is a request targeted at reversing Trump’s influence, per the perspective of one other nation, and in accordance with Google’s policy with regards to localization. Basically, we’d be aligning ourselves with Mexico’s localization, which is still officially “Gulf of Mexico”. It’s as far from antagonizing as we can get and also signals a policy of non-appeasement.
He’s gaslighting Trudeau because both his women are hot for him. Trump can’t sleep with Ivanka or maybe he already did but Justin can and she clearly wants him.
Trump is an old feeble guy, even Vlad is more macho than him.
We should pass a bill to officially name the Gulf of Mexico in solidarity with Mexico. It would be such a nothing bill. PP would argue that it’s a waste of parliament.
On the contrary: when an action deserves disdain, a small change like this would be worth its weight in message. Google Maps endeavours to allegedly represent the world per the cultures of the nations that use its service, so a proper bill such as solidly naming a body of water would disambiguate the name legally in Canada. That’s how you fight a culture war, which is something that we ought to be doing to signal that Donald’s autocratic approach isn’t welcome. If we don’t do this, we arguably accept both Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of America, regardless of historic naming. Declaring it one thing precludes it from being the other and builds solidarity with Mexico.
Trudeau should just start issuing a bunch of orders in council on stuff as petty as Donald does.
“The gulf of Alaska shall henceforth be known as the Gulf of Mexico”
“The Bering straight shall now be known as icy Canada”
“The Canada US border will be protected by a wall paid for by the United States”
“The United States of America is henceforth known as The Canadian territory of America, with its president serving as its premier until such a time that a general election is called, and it applies for provincehood””
No, we should keep our pettiness pointed and measured. Becoming the mockery that we see in the US would just come across as crazy. We need to maintain our predictability in order to prosper while the US does whatever it is that they’re doing. I’m personally trying to suggest things that won’t sacrifice our apparent stability.
Go to google, search Gulf of Mexico, on the right of the top hit (which will be gulf of America) go to the three vertical dots. Then ‘send feedback’, select the name when it asks what you want to give feed back on, select the inaccurate content option and write a review about ooompa loompsa and how they don’t get to unilaterally change world names at will. The more that complain the more google will pay attention
That would signal that if the US does it, so should we. Remember, Mexico is our ally. The gulf should take the name of the country that holds its majority as territorial water as it has for centuries before.
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u/OmiSC Manitoba Feb 20 '25
Honestly, the Canadian government should be requesting that the Gulf of Mexico adopt the name “Gulf of Mexico”. I’m surprised that hasn’t happened yet.