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To me it's New China, New France, depressed alcoholics (Alberta) and rednecks

how bizarre

Bring in The French Foreign Legion, but we call it...
The CANADIAN Foreign Legion.
And we get rid of those gay rules the french have now against accepting terrorists and war criminals.
Then we send them all up to northern Yukon. Make them log trees with a hand hatchet for 8 hours a day, learn to shoot guns good, kill Russians, and restore rightful Canadian arctic clay. At this point they aren't citizens, and since they already gave up their identity when they joined they basically aren't even people, so if a couple of them (lets say under half) freeze to death it's not the end of the world.
Then after 8 years of service, they pay the Canadian government with twenty Russian scalps and get a Canadian passport, 5 acres of permafrost in the Yukon, a cozy job in the Canadian post, a couple of guns, a sturdyd wool blanket, and their very own Filipino bride.
Not only will we be slowly building a population base in the Yukon (we could get 10,000 people a year like that easy- ISIS gets nearly that much and doesn't even offer internal heating), we'd also be significantly increasing the testosterone and ruggedness of our genetic stock.

nothing
there's Ontario, Manitoba, Northern Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, that's all I got
the entire population is in 1% of the landmass