{"id":103000,"date":"2026-06-14T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=103000"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:16:11","slug":"99-of-canadians-are-decent-law-abiding-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/14\/99-of-canadians-are-decent-law-abiding-people\/","title":{"rendered":"“99% of Canadians are decent, law-abiding people”"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Konrad<\/a> explains why, despite agreeing that the vast majority of Canadians are “decent, law-abiding people”, he wants to see the US\/Canadian border closed:<\/p>\n

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Yes. 99% of Canadians are decent, law-abiding people. Friendly neighbors. Good trading partners. Nobody serious disputes that.<\/p>\n

I DO NOT CARE<\/p>\n

CLOSE THE BORDER<\/p>\n

Public safety is not built around the 99%.<\/p>\n

We do not have laws, police, and prisons because most people are good. We have them because a small minority can inflict enormous harm on everyone else.<\/p>\n

The argument for border enforcement is not that Canadians are bad people. It is that even a small failure rate matters when the consequences are catastrophic.<\/p>\n

Free and open borders are a wonderful thing provided both countries are willing and able to identify, remove, and deter the small percentage of dangerous actors who exploit them.<\/p>\n

If one side stops filtering effectively, the burden shifts to the other.<\/p>\n

And yes, that creates unfairness. When enforcement breaks down, restrictions fall hardest on the innocent majority: families, commuters, truckers, tourists, and businesses. No one should pretend otherwise.<\/p>\n

But there is also unfairness in asking another country to absorb preventable risks because difficult enforcement has become politically inconvenient.<\/p>\n

A secure border is not an insult to a neighboring nation. It is a hedge against failure.<\/p>\n

That is their sovereign choice.<\/p>\n

But the United States also has a sovereign responsibility: to reduce risks to its own citizens.<\/p>\n

If a partner cannot or will not reliably filter threats, then verification at the border becomes the default. Not because the majority deserves punishment, but because governments exist to manage tail risk, not assume it away.<\/p>\n

Open borders require mutual trust.<\/p>\n

Trust requires performance.<\/p>\n

But the real threat is not the 1% of evil bad actors. The real threat is the 1% of far left lunatics in your government who are facilitating and funding the 1% of criminals.<\/p>\n

YOU. The ninety nine percent are the only ones who can demand election reform. YOU are the only check left on their power.<\/p>\n

So I absolutely endorse punishing YOU as incentive to demand change now.<\/p>\n

A full and total stop of VISAs, temporary and permanent, will cause real stress to your economy, it will make international and domestic travel more difficult, will unfairly hurt Canadians studying in USA, it will hurt many Americans too.<\/p>\n

But it’s worth temporary extreme pain is a small price to pay for long term stability.<\/p>\n

You are a frog slowly boiling in water. We have asked you to jump out of them pot but you refuse. You just croak “elbows up”<\/p>\n

So our choice as Americans is to watch you die slowly or remove you from the pot and chop a leg off so you don’t jump back in.<\/p>\n

I believe the latter is the only option. And I believe it’s the lore humane option knowing that the leg will grow back just fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Konrad explains why, despite agreeing that the vast majority of Canadians are “decent, law-abiding people”, he wants to see the US\/Canadian border closed: Yes. 99% of Canadians are decent, law-abiding people. Friendly neighbors. Good trading partners. Nobody serious disputes that. I DO NOT CARE CLOSE THE BORDER Public safety is not built around the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,84,13],"tags":[316,343],"class_list":["post-103000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-usa","tag-borders","tag-crimeandpunishment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qNi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103002,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103000\/revisions\/103002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}