Poll: Should Canada buy Detroit?

Global News ^ | July 18, 2013 | David Weisz

[rickmichaels]

TORONTO – Detroit made history Thursday afternoon becoming the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy. If the bankruptcy filing is approved, the city’s assets may be liquidated in a massive auction to repay the city’s estimated $14-20 billion debt. But rather than seeing the former hub of North America’s automotive industry picked clean by creditors, Global News puts forth another suggestion:

What if Canada just buys Detroit, warts and all?

[clearcarbon]

"As a tear down?"

Landfill.

[Ouderkirk]

I’m sure Celine Dion has skills, they are not available for public display. ;-)

[LucyT]

Oh, Yes.

I’ll send Canada one hundred dollars to help w their purchase.

[Semper911]

You win.

[Slings and Arrows]

Sounds like they’re overpaying already.

[DrewsMum]

Give a buy one, get one free deal.

San Fran? The whole state of CA?

[1rudeboy]

This is why we lost that war.

We lost the war of 1812?

[Squawk 8888]

Yep. The peace treaty stipulated that you had to take Detroit back.

[metmom]

Wait. I thought Canada was an ally.

Why would we want to do that to them??????

[Gene Eric]

Is there a story to that cool picture?

[norwaypinesavage]

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/detroit/index.ssf/2012/01/steve_perry_finally_answers_th.html

Former Journey frontman Steve Perry pleads poetic license, and ignorance, despite the fact that a quick glance at a map would have alerted him to the issue. "I ran the phonetics of east, west, and north, but nothing sounded as good or emotionally true to me as South Detroit," he says. "The syntax just sounded right. I fell in love with the line. It’s only been in the last few years that I’ve learned that there is no South Detroit. But it doesn’t matter."

[lee martell]

Somebody asked me that question back in 1981, I think. I had no idea what he was talking about, because there is no South Detroit. I guess Journey needed that one extra syllable.

[Venturer]

Don’t forget McCain and Graham.

[drbuzzard]

Gotta get rid of the voters who elected them as well. The fools there keep electing the people who make a mess of things, no matter the results.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

“Actually I would punish them for foisting Celine Dion on us.”

But they did give us Rush, so that sort of balances out.

[dfwgator]

What about Bryan Adams?

[dfwgator]

And Justin Bieber?

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Weird Al - Canadian Idiot

[M Kehoe]

I'd buy Detroit for a dollar, and have the city fiscally in the black in one year.

The only thing I would require is a Blackwater detail.

5.56mm

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

You’re right. There’s no way they could ever atone for Beiber. So give ‘em Detroit, Chicago, and San Fagcisco.