In response to suggestions by a lunatic in the US Oval Office, Green Party Canada’s leader Elizabeth May suggested Canada should invite western states Washington, Oregon and California join B.C and split from Canada to form the ‘Cascadia’ eco-state.
(Note this article is from Jan 8, 2025 and Elizabeth May has since become co-leader of the party alongside Jonathan Pedneault).
I wish my state wasn’t surrounded by red states because I’d be down to join too.
Colorado? I always want to include them in Cascadia nonsense but yeah geography issues.
As someone not in these states I would support all efforts to retain Colorado. There’s a fuckload of critical infrastructure the USA requires that is in CO. It’s on a short list of states the USA cannot function well without- NY, CA, TX, CO, IL, and GA are all too important to the day to day functioning to let go.
USA has by world’s measure a huge fuckload of money to rapidly build infrastructure.
As someone who’s never been in USA - what’s so critical about Colorado?..
A lot of our phone and internet cabling goes through there and they control a chunk of the Colorado river which CA needs to overwater their fields.
Seriously Cascadia is never going to happen.
Alaska is surrounded by Canada yet it’s still part of the US