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One in five Americans want their state to join Canada amid escalating trade war: poll
(nationalpost.com)
Canada has a functioning government. Sign me up!
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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 :^)
Geezus. OK then. Thank you for the info. I’m in B.C. And while things could be better, I can’t complain. I had a bad fall last year. Xrays were taken almost immediately in emergency. There was a long wait to see a doctor. Once I saw the doctor, surgery was scheduled really quickly with a surgeon. The up side? No bill.
Oh gosh, glad to hear things are somewhat better over there, healthcare-wise. I hope your recovery went/is going well!
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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!
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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.
Red States could finally achieve their dream of being third world countries 🥰
Rather than third world states?
Oh without blue states to help them they still have a long way to go to reach the point where they should be considering their political decisions.
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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
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.
Look on the bright side, you'd probably get the northern states like Vermont. 😀
I'm not Canadian, I'm European. I just would find it interesting to know, since I was told that Canada overall resembles more Europe than the USA.
The political left in the U.S. often aligns more closely with the center or even the moderate right in European countries, due to America's overall more conservative political spectrum.
So they would get an influx of center to far-right citizens. Can't think why one would want this.
Canada has universal health care. It’s not perfect, but I will say I had a bad fall last year which required an open reduction and internal fixation on my arm. It cost me nothing, and I had excellent care.
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I thought this was weird (insidious?) as well.
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Canadian Province of Oregon has a very nice ring to it!
And Washington! Also all of New England!
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
I'd love to see a map of support. I imagine the further north, the more likely to want to merge.
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.
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
Bet its even higher for some states.
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.
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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