This is the Cater Daily Podcast for Monday, July 3rd, 2017. I'm Caleb Brown.

We're smack dab between the 150th Canada Day and the 241st Independence Day in the United States.

But once upon a time, there was a secret effort between secretive armed cabals on both sides

of the then fuzzy U.S. Canada border, and you've probably never heard of it. What's more, it's an interesting

object lesson in just what kind of Libertarian you are. Anthony comegna of Libertarianism.org explains. This is an interesting story because it's about something that didn't happen, right?

Sort of, yeah.

But it's a story about an armed cabal, a shadowy secret society, and governments trying to act when this shadowy group is ready and ready to act.

Yes. So where do where ought we to begin here?

Well, okay, so this is a really strange story,

but this, we're going to talk about an example of a small conflict on the periphery of the British Empire

That really didn't end up going anywhere didn't have terribly significant results, but it could have. George Washington

was really just engaged in tiny little minor skirmishes in Pennsylvania out in the middle of nowhere and it became

the seven years war and worldwide conflict.

In 1837 there was a series of two Canadian rebellions against British rule.

Now, for a long time, the sort of radical end of Canadian politics had looked toward

Jacksonian America as inspiration against their conflict with

British imperialism in Canada. British Canada was ruled by what was British

British Canada was ruled by what was called the family compact regime.

This was basically a collection of high-placed landowners,

wealthy individuals in Canada who monopolized the best land purchases,

the best offices in the government and in the malicious service and things like that for themselves, their families, their friends, their connections.

So it was a very sort of regressive aristocratic situation in Canada where there was tons and tons of open available land, very good land,

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