Posted on 01/22/2005 1:41:29 PM PST by patriot_wes
We'll take BC, but only if we get AB too.
Not a chance
They don't want us and we don't want them. If anything they can have Seattle and we will throw in New England.
Not unless the Nothern Territories came with it.
*PING*!
Hasn't BC voted Conservative for the past 5 years or so?
Hmm -- maybe we could do a mass migration so they would become like Alaska. It wouldn't take too many people. Do they have oil?
Yeah, that group is always ripe for a trade. And I don't think most of the residents would even mind (I live in Boston and I think they'd be happier being a part of almost ANY other country.)
Oh yes, without the political leftists, the "sexually flexible," enviros, vegans, and God-haters....it would qualify as the most beautiful state in the U.S.
You make the best point on this thread, that the Canadians of B.C., as well as those in Alberta and Saskachewan pay the bills that are run up in Ottawa. There is no way that the revenue-addicted leftists in Parliament will simply turn a western province or two loose without some form of compensation that would be financially crippling to all parties involved (think reparations a la Versailles post World War I). Keep working hard, Westerners, the shiftless socialists in the East need your tax dollars to pay for their boondoggles. Your benevelent government will let you know when you can take a break (heh heh).
Um, BC hasn't had a Conservative Premier (Governor) in years. They've only elected NDP kooks and Liberal kooks to that position.
Hmmmm. Don't think it'll ever happen, but.....a re-education process might show some promise. Let's say 10 years or so as a US territory, to see how it works out. I think that the prosperity brought on by a move like this might help turn the tide against the liberal monolith there.....political winds can shift quickly in a parlimentary system so ya never know.
but it ain't happening any time soon, and that's good because if it did my mother-in-law could visit without going through customs and that would be bad....... ;^)
The reason for this is actually quite simple . . . Albertans aren't stupid, and they realize that answering to a Federal government in Washington D.C. would be far worse than answering to a Federal government in Ottawa.
I'm sure they have lots of untapped resources. As for a mass-migration, I don't know about that. I doubt they'd have an infrastructure in place to handle that many people (as it is, there's only 91,000 people in Nunavut, the NWT and Yukon combined in an area of 1.5 million square miles, well over 3 times the area of Alaska, and AK has 5 times as many people with half of them living in Anchorage). It's so isolated and dreadfully cold most of the time that only the hardiest of individuals would want to stay there.
There's a lot of things in Canada, but trash ain't one of them. Didn't you know there is a death penalty for littering up there, eh ?
Okay, thanks for the word. Looks like we're back to the Alberta/Saskatchewan proposal. Not sure I like the chances of getting THIS issue on the GOP's agenda, though!!
How about a trade? BC for all of New England. (Think of all the RATs and RINOs we'd lose!)
I don't really think that if Alberta was able to seceed they would then join the U.S. They have such a healthy economy and reports suggests that they would be able to have a healthy economy on their own. Gas/Oil prices in Alberta would likely be extremely low since they would likely be relying on them as their chief export.
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