I have a trade offer for Canada. America gets Alberta, Canada gets New England, Mid-Atlantic, Pacific, and Puerto Rico.
I think we’d need a laneway across Alberta so B.C. isn’t cut off. Maybe encompassing the oil fields?
need a laneway across Alberta
They’ll get so little land that the trans-canada highway will probably suffice. I do not agree in rewarding the colonizers who genocidally settled North America from the Clovis people, but the current administration has arbitrarily decided on that, so that’s the law – it’s theirs, apparently, and more importantly, it’s not available for the people of Marlaina Smith to try and take with them.
Ultimately, they trade in their passports and get a plane ticket. That’s the only deal they deserve.
I’d GLADLY accept a People Swap, thogh, where we take in wonderful Minnesotans in exchange for the stupidest of our demented flatlander contingent.
Canada will take California as well
That’s part of the Pacific.
I should have been more spacific.
Imagine the national hockey team we’d have.
This is the Canadian plan to get their national goaltenders back on track
They can have the goaltenders if they also take their ted cruz back and keep him there. I feel like Canada did a drive-by trash dumping when Cruz showed up here.
Just make sure Texas is a frozen wasteland to keep Cruz out of the USA.
No thank you. Send him out on an ice floe.
Carney should send some kind of delegation down there. You know…nothing official. Just to “talk”.
I’d be curious to see how many are actually expatriating to Canada right now from the US.
Whenever anyone left of The Homelander gets elected to office, there are waves of conservatives screaming about leaving the USA all over the internet and also getting on local news and shit, and the problem with this narrative from the right is that if they want to go somewhere further right than the US already is, they would have to go to somewhere like Russia… which is exactly what a couple did, ending predictably. The rest are too chickenshit to actually move to a place that doesn’t have the comforts liberal democracy has given them.
But shit, Canada is a fantastic option if you’re trying to escape things like being sent to the frontline of a trench war and think that you shouldn’t be killed in the street for not having your papers, and they’re just a snowy fenceline away for thousands of miles. Is Carney drafting plans for a mass immigration?
If he gets too many US refugees, will he have to make his own ICE to round up American immigrants? Can I at least ask my Canadian brothers up there to make sure it’s named ICE ICE BABY?
waves of conservatives screaming about leaving the USA all over the internet and also getting on local news and shit
The unfortunate thing with voters is that those most able to emigrate don’t vote Conservative; so all they can do is wonk at the press. When the lefties - typically better educated, as per the stats - want to emigrate, they actually have a chance.
I’d like to see stats too, obviously.
No. We’re not criminals.
Out of the fire, into the frying pan?
My first thought. Would their politics shift right or is Manitoba and the PC only right-wing in the context of Canada?
Minnesota has about 4x the population of Manitoba, by the way?
The most left wing of the US is still right of anything in Canada.
Minnesota voted 47% for Trump last election. It would be the most right-wing province in Canada if it joined. No thanks.
I’m in Texas and have been looking into Manitoba, and can assure you based on their parties alone that it’s “only right-wing in the context of Canada” 100%.
I have no idea what adding Minnesota would do though, it would completely change politics in the area even if it was its own province, never mind the US actually allowing that to happen.
Well, they support universal healthcare and abortion. The Manitoba PC is kind of a mix.
Tbf the only reason the PCs support abortion is because of our Supreme Court struck down the laws that criminalized it.
In 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in R. v. Morgentaler that the existing law was unconstitutional, and struck down the 1969 Act. The ruling found that the 1969 abortion law violated a woman’s right to “life, liberty and security of the person” guaranteed under Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms established in 1982.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Canada
Former PM Stephen Harper then put the last nail in the coffin when he announced the federal PCs would not challenge the ruling. This is because although abortion is considered legal here there is no law on the books that makes it so. If the PCs were to challenge the SCoC’s ruling they would likely force the feds to make a law the enshrined abortion care as legal.
Oh don’t worry, I’m under no delusion it’s some sort of leftist utopia, it’s just that Manitoba could be FAR worse. Please keep fighting for those rights regardless of whatever laws are in place, don’t just assume it’s all settled.
I did not know that Minnesota was that populated.
I mean, it’s not. Unless you live in Manitoba.
Hah, or the rest of Western Canada. At 5.8 million it has more people than either British Columbia or Alberta. Although it is close.
In the purely hypothetical situation where Minnesota joined Canada, it would most likely become its own province and not be fused with Manitoba.
I’m in. I love hockey, politeness, and poutine. I can handle winter and cold. I already know the anthem in English and French, because hockey. And I hate the Leafs.
And I hate the Leafs.
You could have just said this part and I’d fully support you as a citizen.
That, or the Canucks, would have been equally acceptable.
They should sort their own problems out, not try to get us to do it for them.
Besides, we don’t want them. Too many Americans.
This is old, but hits the mark perfectly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxgpMLSK_I8
Minnesotans are Canadian Lite though. They share similar values and accents.
They’re extremely right wing compared to the average Canadian. 47% of their vote went to Trump last election.
Ask them if they’re ready to give up their second amendment rights to join Canada. Ask them what they think about socialized health care. Bet a lot of that eagerness to join will fade.
Oh yeah, it’s kind of a purple state, isn’t it?
Like everywhere else it’s going to heavily differ in major cities vs. outside, but just letting the twin cities in wasn’t the question.
Even that would still be bringing in an extremely right-wing population.
The by-county results are here, the twin cities have 27% Trump support. The lowest in the state, sure, but that’s still almost a third of the population that voted for Donald Trump.
That’s twice the Canadian national average from the same time period. Those two counties considered in isolation are still redder than the reddest Canadian province.
You have to consider it’s a two party system, though, and America First will always sell better to Americans. That 15% of Canada is well to the right of the average Trump voter.
I have no idea which way they’d vote as a Canadian city, but it wouldn’t be the bluest (as in Conservative) place in the country.
Sorry, if we’re getting this fiddly trying to explain how “they’re not extreme extreme right, just extreme right!” it’s not going to cut it.
Canada doesn’t want Minnesota. Not even the “good bits.” Americans are just going to have to sort this out for themselves. If individuals want to become Canadian there’s an immigration process they can apply for, they don’t get to just declare their chunk of America to be Canadian and bypass all that.
I mean, you definitely don’t speak for all of us, there, although you’ve worded it that way.
Anyway, the real obstacle is that they legally can’t leave the US.
the twin cities doesn’t have a ‘chinatown’ or a ‘little italy’–they have little canada
If Minnesota goes, I bet Wisconsin would be soon to follow after recent events.
Nah, Wisconsin is too purple, sadly. This is the state, after all, that voted for the semi-sentient bucket of pig shit named F. Ron Johnson over Russ Feingold. Maybe Douglas County and blue parts of LaCrosse could sneak in there on the edge of Minnetoba undetected, though.
I don’t think Wisconsin is as purple as it initially appears. It’s just that the Republicans have managed to get a real stranglehold on that state.
Scott Walker was a real piece of shit too if I recall correctly.
There’s be some rivalry between Wisconsin and Québec regarding who makes the best cheese curds.
If Québec would be open to making poutine with deep-fried cheese curds, it could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
I’ve been to Quebec. They’ll poutine ANYTHING. There are so many variations on the theme, nobody would bat an eye at that.
With both fried cheese and fried potatoes you could call it Poutine deux frite.
I think there’s room for both.
No shot this will actually happen, but I support it. Fuck this country
It’s not new, these stories have been around a long time. And yeah nobody takes them seriously, it’s more of a meta-political cartoon type joke that gets shared as a way of saying “People talkin’ this way right about now”.
I find it hilarious that this made its way to CBC. Usually they don’t stir the international politics pot like this.
Putin wouldnt mind some US states fragmenting and joining canada so maybe he’ll allow trump to allow it. It’d cause more carnage in American politics.
Let me know if that’s gonna happen so I can move to MN real quick
If you haven’t watched this beauty, please do. It’s hilariously accurate on Minnesotan communication, and I believe many of our Canadian brethren will identify with it. Might even help our chances of getting in.
Thanks, PBS!
Out of all the States, Minnesota is one of the few I’d have almost zero objection to welcoming in. “Minnesota Nice” and “Canadian Polite” are closely related (but somewhat different).
Sadly, it will never happen. Adding a province requires re-opening the Constitution, and that’s not going to happen. (If you’re too young to remember, look up the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords)
Minnesota is already honorary Canadian and in my opinion, always has been.
Constitutions are made up by people and people can change them. All you need to do is either get everyone to agree, or make sure the people who don’t agree can’t stop you. Trump chose the latter, and has completely ignored and dismantled the US constitution. Whatever comes out the other side is going to be very, very different. I’m not saying that we should do that. But in the face of an existential threat like that, I don’t think it’s beyond reason that we could, in fact, get everyone to agree. It’s amazing how staring mutual death and dissolution in the face can change the bitterest of rivalries into if not perfect alignment, at least a functional working relationship. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
California Washington Oregon and Hawaii are in too and I don’t want to debate about Hawaii because we need to band together for protection from this evil regime standing alone isn’t an option at this time
And canada getting a tropical paradise would be the cherry on top
At that point it’s blue America with a bit of Canada attached, though.
Have you ever been in Rural Washington or Oregon? How about Orange County California? There are some really fucked up MAGA Nazi fucks in those areas. Just because the cities are blue doesn’t mean the rural parts aren’t filled with dumbass, sister fucking, redneck cunts.
They can leave and go to maga land and we invite the sane people from middle America to settle their property. They’ll leave one way or another
Please take Maine too!
