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If Quebec (and Ontario, for they would go too) does withdraw from the Canadian Union to join the Republic of France -- which is what they keep voting, and keep getting closer, to do -- the other Canadian Provinces will not have much of a choice but to petition the USA for statehood status. Most of the Canadian federal infastructure is located within the French speaking provinces, along with 85% of their most radically liberal, leftist, bigoted, Frenchified anti-English population. There is no way that the remaining English-Canadians could continue to function independently without the tax base, the federal infastructure, and the people-power of Quebec and Ontario. The English Canadians have tremendous land and raw material assets, true, but they have limited voice and people-power. There is no way that their health-care and social security system could continue to function, nor could their police and defense forces, apart from the man, material, and managerial input from Quebec and Ontario.

In short, much of what the USA would pick up would be the sparcely populated western provinces and territories, and of course Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in the east. The GREATEST windfall would be the mineral and oil RICH west ... something that the United States could GREATLY profit from annexing. We must also remember that adding 12 or so million English-speaking Canadians to our social security and medicare system would not be as difficult as some suspect; after all, in addition to their natural resources we would also be adding a fairly wealthy tax base that is USED to being taxed MUCH more than they would be under us. In short, they would pay for themselves as well as grealty enrich the rest of us with their resources.

As for the liberal character of such places an Vancouver ... true, they have a liberal population. However, released from the stranglehold of the rules and regulations of the French Canadian majority I would bet they are somewhat less liberal than we realize. I have friends in Alberta who tell me that, if given a choice, they certainly would NOT choose to vote Democrat. Hence, it is a mistake to just assume that we would be adding an additional 8 million voting-age liberals to the Democrat base.