• rabber@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    And nobody in Canada wants this because 70 million americans voted for Trump

    I’d way rather join EU so we get smart people coming into the country

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      7 days ago

      We do share a land border with Denmark. We settled a border dispute with Denmark on Hans Island. We also have France just a few kilometers off the coast of Newfoundland in St Pierre and Miquelon.

      We should use that as a path to EU membership

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      7 days ago

      I think it’s on the State level not the whole US. I’m fine with that.

      Would like New England so we can have it unite with New Scotland to form the New United Kingdom and have Prince Albert(a) from New Brunswick be it’s Monarch’s consort and patron explorers, like Columbus but British so a British Columbia, to sail the seas to claim New Found Land and Labour to teach New English to New France until they can have Nunavut anymore.

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    7 days ago

    It’s me. I’m the 1 in 5 Americans. I would so much rather be there than here.

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    6 days ago

    I’m down for that. I live in California, being a Canadian province would double Canada’s population and more than double its GDP.

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    6 days ago

    Actually id rather just break the united states into smaller countries.

    Finding common ground and priorities with such a large populace is so non-productive.

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      6 days ago

      There’s an argument for states rights and a smaller federal government.

      Individual Canadian provinces enjoy more Autonomy than your average US state.

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        6 days ago

        States’ rights can be great when you agree with the policies, but I’m personally harrowed by stories of state government showing obvious contempt for their big cities.

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          That could be solved by big cities having autonomy as well. Just like big cities in most European countries being their own province-level entities. Heck, don’t even need to look further than Mexico City.

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    6 days ago

    This is a horse shit idea. I don’t want the culture here to be watered down. I’d be wary of any state wanting to join confederation, and also concerned about the uptick in immigration from the USA.

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    7 days ago

    We don’t want US people seceding to Canada. Enough of their individualistic, manifest destiny, American exceptionalism poison mindset. I don’t want any more of that ideology to infect Canada any more than it already has.

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      any more than it already has

      So many people I know get fuming mad at the idea of higher taxes because they think their income is going to be given to the poor. It’s the same ‘one good move away from being a millionaire’ mentality that drives voters in red states.

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        I want my taxes going to the poor! Society does better when we raise the floor, like how raising minimum wage also means that everyone else gets bumped up or how it’s cheaper to house the homeless and help them join a workforce as opposed to leaving them out on the streets.

        But more specifically I want the ultra-rich to actually pay their fucking taxes! They have the money, they can pony and help a little.

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      5 days ago

      Can you at least start letting in trans US refugees before they all get genocided? Because it’s already started.

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        Of course. I really want this. Trans US people should be able to claim refugee status in Canada. I really hope the govt makes this a possibility soon. Right now the Canadian govt hasn’t issued a travel warning for the US even though Canadians are being detained and held for nothing.

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    I’ll offer you the state of New York. You can have the tax base of NYC. I’m sure most of New England minus New Hampshire would be down with this.

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      Even NH could join up, and straight go the same way that Quebec enjoys.

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    7 days ago

    The US people wishing one thing and their stupid government doing exactly the opposite. Name a more iconic duo!

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    7 days ago

    Sorry, but you’re not welcome.

    Person-for-person, maybe; but with very few exceptions, we don’t really want or need US territory.