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At a minimum any states bordering Canada, including those bordering the 4 Great Lakes shared with Canada, should get a vote of which country to go with.
Pennsylvania is 100% included, and honestly if Indiana and Illinois go for it despite being on the βwrongβ Great Lake, Iβm not going to complain.
The EU πͺπΊ is more than welcome to include Canada π¨π¦ as the 28th member state π€
Make Commonwealth Imperial Again!
Might be some geographical issues (perhaps of the ocean variety) with this proposal
Maybe canada can be the first member of a post-European EU. I guess we'll need a new name.
White supremacist imperialist conglomerate (non-US version)?
Once again, we are forced to raise the lingering question: Are Italians White?
Earth United!
Sounds like a football club that has no one to play against.
Earthed Union the EU.
Well, Ireland is separated from the rest of the continent by ocean. Canada is just a slightly bigger island, slightly further away...
There is French territory just off the coast of Newfoundland too (see Saint Pierre and Miquelon), also Denmark is right next door because of Greenland. So while still pretty far fetched, there is some precedent for European territory in North America.
Ireland is separated from the rest of the continent by ocean.
The Celtic Sea is not an ocean.
By that logic then Vancouver Island isn't an island because the Juan de Fuca is a strait not an ocean
They didn't say Ireland wasn't an island because of it... But, for the record, Canada isn't an island anyway so... Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
Canβt we just harvest the states that want to leave?
Can we Philadelphians join?
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As someone from a South Jersey suburb of Philly: take me with you!
Any reasons why these two neighborhoods go against the grain? Are they the posh suburbs?
Let the GOP force them to become a state. They'd get 2 senate seats and more electoral college votes and congressional seats than any other state. Just in time for the Dems to run on deannexing Canada.
Actually, no, they wouldnβt. They would have ZERO rights.
I'm a bad feeling they'd Puerto Rico us
Territories are still citizens, who can vote when they reside in states. If 2-3% of Canada immigrated, that's 1 million people, which would shift the balance in a lot of places.
Of course, even if you shifted 10 seats in the Senate, the democrats would probably give republicans half the budget and let them write their own bills in the name of bipartisanship (again), and you'd quickly become as hopeless as the average american is in the democrats helping them.
You are 100% correct.
I'm super jealous because I've wanted to have Canadian citizenship since back in my late teens / early adulthood when I realized that there was already a version of America that actually lived up to American ideals and which offered same-sex marriage as well as universal healthcare. That weed and apparently codeine are legal there make it so much more bittersweet.
The only people I've known personally to get citizenship are those who married a Canadian citizen. Which sucks for me because I'm already happily partnered and there's no way I'd give that up for anything, not even Canadian citizenship, awesome and appealing as it is.
Legal marriage and having a life partner are not the same thing. I'll marry you and my partner will marry your partner, no big deal.
Unfortunately, Canada has MAID, and also likes to deny healthcare to natives in the hopes that they will just die.
Maybe if/when the US invades, if we fight for Canada they'll give us citizenship.
FWIW I obviously donβt have the power to approve that but I would certainly vote to make that a thing!
I had an American friend who married a Canadian. It took SO much work to get her permanent resident card, like a lawyer and everything.
Guys guys guys, let's be good friends with the EU, let's even adopt some of their best policies, but honestly, they also have some baggage we don't need.
Believe me, we don't want Orban either..
I just want to be sovereign. How is that so hard for people to understand?
Ya both those prospects seem "Colonial"
