{"id":5187,"date":"2025-04-08T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=5187"},"modified":"2025-04-08T11:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:38:11","slug":"poison-pill-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2025\/04\/08\/poison-pill-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Poison Pill Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thomas Homer Dixon, in the course of <a href=\"https:\/\/cascadeinstitute.org\/prepare-for-war\/\">urging<\/a> Canada to prepare for war, refers to Aisha Ahmad&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-annexing-canada-would-destroy-the-united-states-249561\">claim<\/a> that the result of such a war would destroy the US &#8211; in a way that I think is like the so-called &#8220;poison pill&#8221; defense often used in business to resist a hostile takeover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/p\/poisonpill.asp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/thmb\/s0mmJY7Lh7yKXEhfU5czDOVe7Ng=\/1500x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)\/poisonpill-Final-23f0fee2b8264451a9fb1a499e92b5e2.png\" alt=\"Poison Pill \"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-annexing-canada-would-destroy-the-united-states-249561\">Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Homer Dixon, in the course of urging Canada to prepare for war, refers to Aisha Ahmad&#8217;s claim that the result of such a war would destroy the US &#8211; in a way that I think is like the so-called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2025\/04\/08\/poison-pill-defense\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5198,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions\/5198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}