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One in five Americans want their state to join Canada amid escalating trade war: poll
(nationalpost.com)
Canadian Province of Oregon has a very nice ring to it!
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And Washington! Also all of New England!
California for succession! But all BS aside I feel like the US is going to have a civil war over all of this because over half of us don’t want to live in stupid tecno patriarcal oligarch dipshitville with a deranged game show host frontman
I am originally from Michigan and I think Michigan would make a fine province in Canada. We all love beer, hockey, Ice fishing, fishing and affordable healthcare. Lets build the wall! The wall should be at the Ohio and Indiana border to keep those Trump supporters away from our inland lakes. #Michigan #FuckTrump
I'd sign up for it. Illinois isn't too far from Canada, and I'd live to see how the US gets by without Chicago. Good luck rerouting all your freight to avoid border crossings lol. Sigh. It'd never happen in a million years though.
No, thank you. Stay home, please, and fix your problems.
Our problems are and have been for 160 years one thing: The South.
Leaving them behind is fixing them.
You overestimate the U.S. citizens' ability to influence the U.S. Government. It is not a democracy and has not been at least for my whole life. People in the U.S. have effectively no control over laws that get passed.
Canada has a functioning government. Sign me up!
It’s gotta be way more than 1/5 in VT. Half the houses have combo Canadian/US flags hanging. And have for years. They’re in danger of having a different meaning now though I fear.
And universal health care, and 12 months EI for parental leave after the birth of a child.
Just to add, for anyone curious: Canadian healthcare is provincial, not federal, so your mileage may vary depending on which province you live in.
One of the "Canadian officials" recently quoted in American news for threatening to withhold electricity is Doug Ford, the Conservative Premier (i.e. the "Senator") of Ontario. While many Canadians have supported his response to Trump's tariffs, he's been dismantling Ontario's public healthcare by withholding public funding, so he can set up a two-tiered private/public system. He's also had a fair number of scandals. And was just comfortably re-elected :^)
While I have love for Ford, he's more akin to Governor than Senator.
Whoops! That's the word I was looking for :^) thanks
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It would be amazing if we could have Washington and Oregon in Canada... :)
And California, make a land bridge between Canada and Mexico! Plus Canada would jump from 9th largest GDP in the world to 3rd largest!
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Hell, I'll vote for my state to join just about any country with a functioning healthcare system.
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I don't believe canada is perfect but the US is really fucking bad, so it would probably be an improvement.
Though enemies of the US would probably be cackling at it dissolving. US conservatives really are a heady cocktail of traitors and absolute fucking idiots.
Putin is laughing his head off at how easy it was to dismantle the US. It was already so rotten a bit of poking the right places was all it took.
Red States could finally achieve their dream of being third world countries 🥰
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The way they word the contrast between Canadians and Americans is extremely biased."9 percent of Canadians believe they will become the 51st state", not that they want to, just that they believe it will happen. While "30 percent of Americans would like their state to become part of Canada". If you asked the Canadians if they want to become US state I guarantee it would be lower
If you asked the Canadians if they want to become US state I guarantee it would be lower
Any of the polls I've seen put it 13-20%.
Would you mind sharing those polls? I haven't seen any that high
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-join-u-s-poll-1.7434317
https://leger360.com/canada-51st-state/
EDIT: I can't find the one that said 20%. It was on a Lemmy post a few weeks back. However, it said 80% were strongly opposed, and didn't break down the other responses. The article just assumed the other responses weren't opposed.
Thank you for the links! There's definitely some variability in how the questions are asked, and obviously polling bias (though those could go either way), but this is still way higher than any of the polls I had seen. I appreciate you taking the time to find them for me.
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On behalf of Washington State I accept this offer.
Oregon also!
Perhaps we can organize a referendum
I have a better idea, Make Alaska a part of Canada
Only the blue parts.
The red parts can go to hell.
Why not all
Don't need the bigotry
Then just kick them out, give them a tastebof their own medicine
I knew Americans were treating Canada badly, but that's crossing a line
Canada please decline this offer until a sane generation is old enough to vote, the current ones are broken
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