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.

  • @DaddleDew
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    You guys can have Alberta and Saskatchewan. We’ll take California, Oregon and Washington.

    • toiletobserver
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      361 month ago

      Don’t threaten me with nationalized health care unless you mean it, buddy. I’ll hold you to it.

    • ThePowerOfGeek
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      201 month ago

      As a Californian… Okay, sounds good!

    • Ghostalmedia
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      161 month ago

      California’s GDP is 50% bigger than all of Canada.

      I think CA would be the top in that relationship.

        • Ghostalmedia
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          21 month ago

          The one that’s lower on the map. The bottom will be the top.

    • NaibofTabr
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      111 month ago

      Nah, y’all can take Florida and Alabama.

      For free.

      please?

      • @sensiblepuffin
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        151 month ago

        Can you imagine the increase in American literacy rates and decrease in emissions?

        • @[email protected]
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          91 month ago

          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.

    • @CheeryLBottom
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      31 month ago

      Hey, I’m an American living in Alberta. And very much a democrat

    • Tiefling IRL
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      21 month ago

      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

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      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.

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    Oh great, all the new/returning-to-power blow hards around the globe are going to start verbally jabbing at one another… T_T I just want peace.

  • @Lasherz12
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    161 month ago

    Doug Ford is a shithead too.

  • FuglyDuck
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    121 month ago

    I volunteer Minnesota as tribute?

    • @[email protected]
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      91 month ago

      No its his drug dealer brother got elected after the crackhead mayor died. Dont ask me how anyone in their right mind would vote for either of them but they did.

  • @BetaDoggo_
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    31 month ago

    Ford is a corrupt POS but this is one of his only good stances.

  • @DrPop
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    31 month ago

    So duck the people who live there, all that matters is the big talking head wants it. I really hope these are all just big words.

  • @MSids
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    11 month ago

    Please start with Maine and New Hampshire, I have been practicing my accent for years.