CANADA/USA ANNEXATION SUPER-THREAD! RumoUrs are that Trump isn't just blustering about making Canada the 51st state! What do you guys think? Let's all put on our 'big boy pants' and share serious details on what you think will need to make this marriage work!
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Nobody wants to talk about the gorilla in the bathtub: Quebec. Talk about assimilation problems. Canada minus Quebec might be a feasibility.
To be honest, I think it is a terrible idea. It is like thinking the only way the world should work is if everyone is a U.S. citizen. Canada has a perfectly respectable history of development in the spheres of humanities, science, and engineering. We did them a very nasty turn by destroying their highly advanced aircraft industry so we could sell them Bomarc missiles. Their political history is much different from ours, with no common points. They would need to abrogate the political connection to the British Crown in order for any of this to happen---but if they can do that, they would also be on a path of true independence, and I believe that would be better FOR THEM. I've grown up to see what happens when the U.S. throws its weight around in the world, and I am not happy with it. I don't want to see a continuance, especially against a good neighbor.
And I don't want to see a Democrat Party energized by the addition of 9 million Quebecois. I am concerned that we are in danger of losing our common speech in English by adding a huge Francophone contingent to the Spanish-speaking.
Maybe you could may Quebec an 'unincorporated territory', like Guam. Some of the perks, but essentially no voting rights.
Definitely a good idea, as long as it doesn't lead to Quebec capsizing in the ocean.
What a great comment. Fantastic comment. Except, please reread this comment? Because it only applies, and it is only true, if you restrict everything you said to 30 years ago. Because, for the last 30 years since? None of this is true.
I would be willing to bet that you are more of a gray beard frog, like me, and that you remember the glory days when Canada was respected on some legitimate level on the world stage. Not anymore.
Yes, I am. But who are we to look down on their demise, from the depth to which we have sunken? Plenty of good work in the past 30 years: Nathaniel Branden, Jordan Peterson, Marzan Mozetich, Canadarm, many good actors. It need not be "over" for Canada, just as it need not be "over" for us...yet. As a rising tide lifts all ships, Trump may help Canada in many indirect ways, and I hope so.