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Make Alberta America
American Thinker ^ | 6 Mar, 2025 | Bruce Pardy

Posted on 03/06/2025 4:11:10 AM PST by MtnClimber

If Donald Trump wants a 51st state to the north, here’s how he can get one.

For weeks, President Donald Trump has said that Canada should be America’s 51st state. He has mocked Canada’s economic dependence on the United States. He has condemned Canadian tariffs and trade restrictions. He has scolded Canada’s free riding on American defense. He has knocked Canada’s porous borders and drug dens. He has accused Canada of colluding with hostile foreign powers and global institutions. He has trolled our prime minister.

It’s delightful. Many Canadians are enjoying the show.

Up here in the cold white north, Trump has set the cat among the pigeons. Canada’s chattering classes are wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth. He has challenged their sense of entitlement. He has exposed their patriotism of convenience and knee-jerk anti-Americanism. He has exposed their haughty righteousness. He has identified rot that Canadian leaders refuse to acknowledge.

Here is some friendly advice for the president. The 51st state will not be Canada. The Canadian political establishment, largely centered in Ontario and Quebec, will fight it tooth and nail. Their vested interests depend upon the existing federal order of things. Big fish in small ponds will steadfastly refuse to abandon the pond. Canada will not join the United States as a single unit.

But the country’s provinces are a different matter. Some parts of Canada might be persuaded, one or two at a time, to come stateside. If there is to be a 51st state from north of the border, the best bet is Alberta. Even better would be to adopt two provinces, Alberta and Newfoundland, to start.

Canada has always been an unlikely country. It looks huge on the map, but most of its people live in a ribbon from east to west

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KEYWORDS: alberta; alberta51; canada
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To: ClearCase_guy

There’s only about 39 million people in Canada. Its quite under populated but I too have concerns about bringing a bunch of lefties on board. Not to mention they’ve let a trillion Muslims in so we’d get them too.


41 posted on 03/06/2025 6:31:07 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I won’t quibble too much about numbers, but I believe Canada has 41 million people. California has 39 million people. California has 52 reps in Congress. Imagine 52+ Canadians in the US House. You’d never see another Republican Speaker. And every single Republican president would always be impeaches once or twice. Perhaps not removed by the Senate, but the House would just impeach for the heck of it.


42 posted on 03/06/2025 6:35:32 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: ClearCase_guy

And to think at one time they thought about making The Philippines a state. Have you seen the population of The Philippines lately?


43 posted on 03/06/2025 6:37:30 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Green Bay Packers VS Edmonton ESKIMOES would be interesting to watch.


44 posted on 03/06/2025 8:12:13 AM PST by Surrounded_too (LE)
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To: MtnClimber

Western Washington and Oregon for Alberta.


45 posted on 03/06/2025 9:32:53 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING 0F AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE oNO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: MtnClimber

CANADA is an integral part of the British Commonwealth unless the people of CANADA decide otherwise.


46 posted on 03/06/2025 9:36:24 AM PST by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Churchillspirit

Which is why Canada went to war in 1939, while it took Pearl Harbor to get into it.

Of course Pierre Trudeau at the time was against it, he actually thought the Nazis winning would be better for French-Canadians.


47 posted on 03/06/2025 9:37:45 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Churchillspirit

Also, if the British Isles had fallen, the Government and the Royal Family would have relocated to Canada to continue the fight from there.


48 posted on 03/06/2025 9:40:06 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Churchillspirit

Perhaps the folks of Quebec might have other ideas?

Their secession efforts got shut down a few times—but the Canadian government used a combination of carrots and sticks to hold them in line.

It was like an abusive husband keeping the marriage intact with a combination of fancy gifts and occasional beat-downs.


49 posted on 03/06/2025 9:42:55 AM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Eccl 10:2
We could offset that by making NH, VT, MA, CT, and RI into one state. Ditto MD and DE.

I've been pushing this idea for years. Those teeny tiny itty bitty states should *NOT* have 2 Senators apiece. They have too much power. They greatly distort the Senate to the left. All those states should be combined into one normal sized state, and then they would only have two Senators to represent all their liberal @$$es.

50 posted on 03/06/2025 10:05:48 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Been saying that for years.

Make the Dakotas and the Carolinas and the Virginias Unite.


51 posted on 03/06/2025 10:06:34 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

Honestly, we don’t want the rest of Canada. If Alberta wants to defect and become a State, I say let them. But the last thing we want is 40 million more leftist kooks.


52 posted on 03/06/2025 10:09:13 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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