[patriot_wes]

Whatd'ya think boys, shall we let 'em in?

[Mr. Blond]

I'm from BC. Trust me, you don't want 'em.

[darkwing104]

Whatd'ya think boys, shall we let 'em in?

Maybe we could trade for them...How about Massachusetts?

[Betaille]

I think this would be alot more likely to work in one of the conservative western provinces. BC is more like the US west coast... it's likely to prefer canada.

[speedy]

Geez, BC is beautiful, but you'd have the same political problems you have with Washington -- leftists in Vancouver outgunning Conservatives in the interior. Wouldn't it work better with Alberta and Saskatchewan? Straight up trade for New England and a West Coast state to be named later.

[CzarNicky]

As Much as I would like to see Alaska united with the mainland I would not want BC in the United States unless they left Vancouver as part of Canada.

[hinckley buzzard]

Whatd'ya think boys, shall we let 'em in?

They're liberals. Only if we get Alberta at the same time.
Like in the 1850's: one slave state, one free state.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

Perhaps just merge British Columbia with Alaska. That would allow Alaska to become one of them "continental" states..

[zzen01]

Kinda foggy on letting BC in BUT we(the US) should definatly let and encourage Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia to COME ON IN! They would be a REAL asset to the US as the 51, 52, 53 and 54 States.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[steve86]

When I was in graduate school in the 70s in Victoria it always surprised me to see Communists running for provincial posts, and they weren't necessarily considered "fringe".

[Vaquero]

2 more liberal Senators???
forget it....

dont want PR to be a state either fer the same reason.

[Radioactive]

It would have to be renamed.....No longer British Columbia...

How about Canookifornia,

or NoFrenchachusettes.

[M-cubed]

Nope....Mexico already has first dibs on becoming the next state...Just most people don't understand the process yet....

[March I up]

Caveat emptor...

http://www.annexationbc.com/sitemap.asp

[Michael.SF.]

Whatd'ya think boys, shall we let 'em in?

Isn't 'HongCouver' the biggest city in BC?

We have enough problems w/o taking on some of Canada's.

[March I up]

Maybe a positive planck in party platform:

"There will no longer be a need to waste millions of business and tax dollars on the labeling and printing of French on everything manufactured and imported into BC. Compulsory French language education in our BC schools will be eliminated. "

How 'bout that?

[Brian328i]

DOn't forget Alberta.

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http://www.separationalberta.com/

A better question would be “Why stay?”

For almost 100 years, Alberta and the West have been trying to become real members of Canada and true, equal partners in Confederation. These efforts have proved fruitless. It is time to move forward and protect Alberta’s future. It is time to stop the financial and emotional drain caused by an incompetent, unresponsive political and bureaucratic nightmare called “Ottawa”.


Economic Cost of Federation for Alberta, 1961 – Present

Alberta has, on a per capita basis, been Ottawa’s largest single contributor. For example, between 1961 and 1992, Alberta paid $139 billion more to Ottawa than it received back from Ottawa. That is what it cost Albertans to be Canadian. *

And where did the money go? During that time frame, the province of Quebec, despite its large population and vibrant economy, was a net recipient of over $ 168 billion from Ottawa. Alberta was paying Quebec to be Canadian. *

[FreedomCalls]

It's supposed to be ours anyway. Remember "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!"?

We elected President Polk to take our border to 54°40' but he wimped out.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Any move that would make Quebec even less relevant is OK by me.

[sarah_f]

The hell with that! They've got more hard-core muslim terrorists than Seattle, Portland and SF.

F*** BC, Fu** Canada. Let them die because of muslim terrorists, not us.