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people keep looking up the population of Canada to see where it would rank as a state

+1 plausible!

BTW it's very close to California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

It makes no sense as a single "state". We have two official languages for a reason, Quebec is Francophone and culturally distinct and very large. Other provinces (e.g. New Brunswick) are fully bilingual. We have three ocean coastlines, and a geographic mass which is the second largest country in the world. How you fit that all into one US "state" is preposterous and in fact that's probably one of the most inflammatory ignorant things about the whole way Trump speaks.

Not that we'd ever be "admitted" as a state should we be forced to grovel down to that point. We'd be some sort of occupied territory with no voting rights, but with 100% right for American capital to take our resources freely and dismantle our institutions.

There was a great article about what would happen if Canada were a state:

https://abcnews.go.com/538/trumps-push-canadian-statehood-hu...

basically, assuming the US continues as a democracy in the same way it is now, the GOP / Trump would loose terribly in the next election. Then I guess it probably becomes independent again.

That's the wrong thing for them to be looking up. It would have to be 13 states, with 26 senators.

Oh, wait, is that suddenly not so appealing?

Just curious, what's the reason for it needing to be 13 states?

There are 10 provinces and 3 territories. Most of the provinces could make states, PEI and territories are too small.

Making Canada one huge state would be stupid, even more than annexing Canada.

Ah so mostly just absorbing structures as is. I was thinking there was some obscure annexation law or something from a long time ago I wasn't aware of.

> Making Canada one huge state would be stupid, even more than annexing Canada.

Fully agreed.

The territories are enormous. And since under the American system, land, not people get votes, they should absolutely have 2 senators each.

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