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One in five Americans want their state to join Canada amid escalating trade war: poll

One in five Americans (20 per cent) polled by Leger this week say they would like their state to join Canada, more than double the proportion of Canadians who said they would like their country to become the 51st state of the United States. Article content

“Only 9 per cent of Canadians believe it is likely that Canada will become the 51st U.S. state. By contrast, 20 per cent of Americans would like their state to join Canada and become a Canadian province, a proportion that is higher among respondents aged 18 to 34 (30 per cent),” reads the new Léger report.

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One in five Americans want their state to join Canada amid escalating trade war: poll

nationalpost.com /news/politics/federal_election/americans-auto-tariffs-mark-carney-donald-trump

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One in five Americans want their state to join Canada amid escalating trade war: poll

nationalpost.com /news/politics/federal_election/americans-auto-tariffs-mark-carney-donald-trump

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Canada has a functioning government. Sign me up!
- 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 :^)
  
  6-18 months, depending on the province, with both extremes being elective, not mandated.
  5-9 weeks for the dad too, also depending on province and elective.
  Edit: also subsidized daycare in Quebec (180/mo is peanuts) with further subsidies for low income families. There's also a federal subsidy, but adoption has been slow by for profits.
- 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.

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!
  
  No, it would not. California’s GDP is highly dependent on it being part of the USA. CA agriculture would get devastated when the US refuses access to water from the Colorado river as we just did this to Mexico this week. CA tech companies would flee California as the US government will tie access to DoD money to being an American company so the tech sector will flee as well. The third largest industry last I checked was education which gets a TON of US federal dollars.
  California without the USA would rapidly look more like Slovenia than France economically speaking.
  There aren’t many if any states that would be better off apart from the USA.

Hell, I'll vote for my state to join just about any country with a functioning healthcare system.
- Such as?..
  
  Canada, for one.

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.
- Red States could finally achieve their dream of being third world countries 🥰
  
  Rather than third world states?
  
  If the USA leaves NATO it technically becomes a Third-World Country. Enjoy!
- 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.

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
- What would have been interesting: How many Canadians would like an American state to become part of Canada?
  I wouldn't want any of them to join my country.
  
  As a Prairie guy, I'd love to have MN join us
  
  Look on the bright side, you'd probably get the northern states like Vermont. 😀
- I thought this was weird (insidious?) as well.
- 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

Canadian Province of Oregon has a very nice ring to it!
- And Washington! Also all of New England!

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
- I knew Americans were treating Canada badly, but that's crossing a line

I'd love to see a map of support. I imagine the further north, the more likely to want to merge.

Canada please decline this offer until a sane generation is old enough to vote, the current ones are broken
- Oh don't worry 99% of us have been seeing the online requests and cackling at the sheer fucking hubris lmao

If all the nice Americans leave to join us, what happens with the rest? They’re gonna attack us!
If you’re a nice American and want to join us, bring fighter jets and nuclear weapons and stuff with you please!
- Canada could have nuclear weapons within 6 months if they needed.

Obligatory Jesusland Map.

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

This is almost as stupid as making Canada the 51st state.
- Seriously, we shouldn't be feeding any annexation narratives.

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

Bet its even higher for some states.

I guess Oklahoma and Texas are driving that number down?

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.

Nah, we're good.

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.

eh....we're good. and id expect that mandatory French for all government workers would be a deal breaker for most

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You guys can't join till either trump is gone or we get some form of defence pact(noncompliance whatever) from individual states

Might be a long shot but id accept that in Florida. It would make maps hard but it would be worth it. Disney would be on board. They a pretty six of the repubs after the bullshit the last gov pulled
Was funny tho. Gov insisted on a meeting and a vote about what Disney could and couldnt do on their property. Only Disney showed up to vote.
- You’re living in a fantasy world if you think Florida wants to join Canada. Florida has gotten redder and redder in the past few years. Disney could simply up and leave anytime if they wanted to.
  
  Yeah just pack up the Castle. Certain areas of Florida are getting reder.
  There's a joke in Florida "where should I visit, where are the cultural scenes, good museums, nice clubs" and we pull up an election map and point at the blue.
  As for Disney they can't "move" they would just stop funding that park until it died. There's no moving it.

When shit hits the fan, just fight on our side (PS: Bring your national guard assets with you too, so they can fight on our side against the Nazis, thanks!).

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