Somebody we all know of has been spouting about an idea of Canada becoming part of the United States. I wrote about this previously in a completely different post not so long ago which I will reiterate now so you folks don’t think I’m crazy.
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From February 14, 2025
I can see why Trump would want us.
- Friendly people.
- Connect Alaska to the rest of the States.
- More voters.
- Better scenery
- Quiet places you can be away from people.
- Free health care.
- More brains.
- Actual common sense solutions to problems.
- Fresh water.
- Real milk
- Four seasons
- Forests
- Lumber
- Metals
- More interesting music.
- Chill atmosphere
And so much more.
Why It’ll never work…
- We don’t want it to.
- All political parties are actually united on this one thing for the first time in thier lives.
- Tehre’s too much surface area to cover with a military thing.
- You can’t just ask nicely about this kind of thing.
- There would have to be a referendum of some sort which nobody would vote for.
- Canada is a Constitutional Monarchy, The Unites States is a Republic.
- These are two very different forms of government.
- There are a lot more hoops to jump through than he realizes.
- King Charles III would have to sign off on it too. He’s not saying anything so that he doesn’t give this silly idea any dignity whatsoever.
- Canadians are different from coast to coast to coast.
- Trump would never learn French to deal with Quebec issues.
- How is he going to learn all the inuit languages to help them?
- Canada has a way of letting all these different people coexist happily under one roof.
- The US is not so much for that.
- You can’t just walk into a country and plant your flag and have that be that.
- Canada has fought side by side with the US in every war that I know of.
- The other NATO countries wouldn’t be happy about an invasion.
- This is a completely unnecessary conflict.
- We are better when we are two sovereign nations working together.
I can see why Trump thinks this is a great idea. The only way it would happen is if we all got up and left. When you live in the best place in the world, that’s not going to happen. It’s not as easy as he thinks.
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As an added bonus, here’s something I wrote back on July 1, 2017 for Canada’s 150th birthday that should solidify my position. It was titled, 150 Reasons To Like Canada.
- Free Healthcare. (Ammended upon further review just now, some things you’d still want insurance to cover)
- Lots of space for everyone
- Quiet places you can go to get away from it all.
- Donairs
- Poutine
- Basketball was invented here
- We’re good at hockey
- But Lacrosse is our natural sport.
- You can say “Eh” but you don’t have to.
- James Hinchcliffe
- Peter Mansbridge
- Lloyd Robertson
- The glass floor of the CN Tower
- The fact that the CN Tower keeps trying to find new ways to be the “tallest something.”
- Twonies
- Loonies
- The fact that we didn’t go with the idea of a five dollar coin
- We were bold enough to get rid of the penny when it became too expensive to make them.
- There are places where it snows all year.
- Fall Foliage
- Corner Gas
- This Hour Has 22 Minutes
- Flashpoint
- Wayne Gretzky
- There are legitimate moose crossings
- The telephone was invented here
- Jasper National Park
- We have the worlds largest metal lobster.
- Shediac was cool enough to host the Beach Boys once
- You can still have reasonable conversations with people.
- Acadian cuisine. It was here before it hit Louisiana
- Jacques Villeneuve
- Gilles Villeneuve
- Peter Coade
- Stanley Park
- Bannf
- The Columbia Ice Fields
- It’s easy to learn French because the English is right beside it.
- Jean Chretien’s one liners
- The Toronto Blue Jays
- Maple Syrup
- There’s more fresh water here than anywhere else
- Rush
- Our Lady Peace
- Joel Plaskett
- You don’t have to like everything everyone else likes
- There are still places where you can buy cheap real estate
- Keji
- Saint John City Market
- Interesting cruise destinations
- Maple leaves
- The Montreal Canadiens
- The other Canadian hockey teams
- French Toast
- Friendly people
- We know the difference between bacon and ham
- Home of the biggest concrete moose
- Jay Onrait
- Dan O’Toole
- Sports Centre
- Home of the true North Pole
- You can write government without paying postage
- The benefit of the doubt
- April Wine
- Newfoundland was the first landing place when The Beatles came over to North America
- Stuart MacLean
- The Viayl Cafe
- Rick Mercer
- This Is That
- Pat Kelley
- Peter Oldring
- The Irelevent Show
- The ’72 Summit Series solidifying Canada’s hockey supremacy.
- Vimmy Ridge
- Beavers
- Douglas Firs
- May Flowers
- The Annapolis Valley
- Coastal cities
- CTV
- CBC
- TSN
- The Canadarm
- Unpredictable weather patterns and the teams that relentlessly cover them.
- The Weather Network
- Hockey Night In Canada
- The fact that TSN made a bid to keep the Hockey Night in Canada theme after CBC stopped using it for Hockey Night In Canada
- Sidney Crosby
- Mario Lemeux
- Challenging backwoods roads for people who love driving.
- Average life expectancy in Canada is 81 years.
- Statistics Canada
- The fake Statistics Canada Twitter account
- Sir John A. MacDonald
- Joseph Howe
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
- The St. Lawrence Seaway
- The Montreal Expos could make a comeback
- July 1, 1867
- The World Expo 100 years later
- A budding hub for Artificial Intelligence
- William Shatner
- Milk in a Bag
- Sometimes the Mounties still use horses instead of police cars
- All the hype that the Ottawa Senators almost won the Stanley Cup in Canada’s 150th year. The Penguins got it though.
- Canada is very generous with the Stanley Cup
- Rural accents
- The mangling of the word Japan in some places. (Normal pronounciation Ja-PAN…Other strange pronunciation I’ve heard JA-pan).
- Sanford Flemming
- Daylight Savings Time
- Saskatchewan doesn’t do Daylight Savings Time
- Nobody is actually forced into doing the Daylight Savings Time thing.
- Regular mail and faxing are still viable ways of communicating with people if you like that.
- Louisberg
- Citadel Hill
- The Columbia Ice ields
- Canadian Bush Pilots
- It’s easy to tell monetary bills apart.
- Mr. Dressup
- The Participaction gang
- Bert and Gert
- Sharky and George
- Professor Iris
- Popular Mechanics For Kids (Keeping the throwback TV show trend going)
- Maud Lewis
- Robert Bateman
- Balanced budgets (from time to time)
- Timbits
- Tim Horton’s
- Tim Horton himself.
- Coastal breezes
- Not everywhere smells like Brooks (I like meat though so I get why they do it)
- Farmers and miners can coexist in the same geographical area
- You can go outside without dying
- Peggy’s cove
- Hopewell Rocks
- Wandering around outside Parliament just to see what there is to see is totally cool
- You can even watch parliament i you want.
- People go nuts over Anne of Green Gables even though she’s a fictional character in a book.
- Roll up the rim
- The fact that they brought Roll Up The Rim back just for Canada Day when it usually happens in the winter.
- They still play exhibition games in the Olympic stadium even though it’s falling apart.
- Lucy Maude Montgomery
- Kim Campbell
- The Governor General could possibly remove any Prime Minister from Office if he or she had reason to. Mostly a non-confidence vote
- Oklawn Farm. The most laid back zoo ever.
- The Harbour Hopper
- William Shantner
- Psalm 72:8
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“Your cover graphics for this series look like they were done by a two year old!”
That is by design. That’s about how much thought it took to float this idea around in my opinion. Also, I can’t help if the blue of the American Flag doesn’t match well with the specific red of the Canadian Maple Leaf.
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I will do my best to cite my sources. Hopefully this is an interesting learning experience.