Summary
Ontario Premier Doug Ford humorously countered Donald Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. and Canada merge by proposing Canada purchase Alaska and Minnesota instead.
While Ford dismissed the idea of merging as unrealistic, he highlighted the strong economic ties between the two nations, including $1.3 trillion in trade and critical resources like oil and electricity.
Canadian leaders, including outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, rejected Trump’s rhetoric, with Trudeau asserting Canada would never become a U.S. state.
You guys can have Alberta and Saskatchewan. We’ll take California, Oregon and Washington.
Don’t threaten me with nationalized health care unless you mean it, buddy. I’ll hold you to it.
As a Californian… Okay, sounds good!
California’s GDP is 50% bigger than all of Canada.
I think CA would be the top in that relationship.
Which CA?
The one that’s lower on the map. The bottom will be the top.
Nah, y’all can take Florida and Alabama.
For free.
please?
Can you imagine the increase in American literacy rates and decrease in emissions?
28.5 mil people even in those states wouldn’t put too much of a dent in either.
on the other hand, adding two dumb as dirt, dirty af states ~ 40-45 percent of the combined population… would destroy canada’s world rankings in every positive metric.
Please no! I fled the states and ended up in Alberta.
Hey, I’m an American living in Alberta. And very much a democrat
We’re so very sorry.
Like the US, the big cities in Western Canada are fairly liberal
Counteroffer: We’ll take Nunavut in exchange for Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
One, you’ll have us nearly surrounded; two, they’re far enough away that you don’t have to risk any of the pre-existing populace actually coming into your country, and three, you get a whole stretch of oceanfront property, and we don’t have to let them muck up our electoral college anymore. And all we want in exchange is a nigh-uninhabitable stretch of ice and bragging rights that we’re indisputably bigger than China, which is for some reason the only thing the incoming administration cares about anyway. If that’s not enough we’re willing to throw in a couple of the Virgin Islands.
Hey don’t leave us Northeast coast to dry! NY and Ontario/Toronto are already siblings, may as well take the people north of us too
Fucking deal!
Jokes on you - you get more crabbers, more maple syrup and Canada West.
Quick we gotta shake on it so it’s legit