Posted on 12/02/2005 10:18:25 PM PST by goldstategop
I think you would see the Red states sharply opposed to adding more states to New England or British Columbia entering the Union too. The other three western provinces might have an easier time of it. The statehood process would be lengthy as the provinces would have to be weaned off socialim and they would have to understand that entering the American union is permanent, as we in the South learned.
Like I've said many times, trade NYC and everything North of NYS to Canada for everything West of Ontario.
Everyone would be happy.
This is a tricky question. The answer from our (Australian and NZ) perspective is a no because on a practical policy level (such as who can sell alcohol, who should fund and run halthcare, should government unemployment benefit provision exist) the Right and Left in English Canada (i.e Ontario) agree with much of it. High Toryism begets Red Toryism which is "socially conservative supporting traditional institutions like religion and the monarchy but fiscally consensual and moderate, with a strong belief in the welfare state".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Tory
Generally support of free market and individual responsbility is quite weak in Ontario if we believe in polls and responses of a number of Canadian FRers here. We have no doubt conservatives in our two countries support free market and believe, like our American friends do, it is a cornerstone of conservatism. But then I talked about market forces being a cornerstone of conservatism on another thread and I was treated as if I were a space alien by a Canadian FRer LOL.
But back to the topic. Healthcare in Canada runs to the Left of us - here in NZ only the far-left Greens want a Canadian-style purely public healthcare system and I would imagine in Australia the proposal would never even have left the nutty left intellectuals' saloons.
A lot of Canadians will not be that happy with the thought these blue states will push their politics towards the "neo-liberal"/"American conservative" direction. For instance, Ontario can't stand Vermont's gun laws, and the existence of privately financed hospitals in Massachusetts (Harvard, for instance, will never allow hospital expenses funded entirely from "the public" because it means research opportunities with rich patients as cashcows will be cut).
They also will not tolerate New York and Massachusetts supplanting Ontario's political influence.
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LOL! Someone has been spiking Ted Byfield's eggnog!
Canada Ping!
Please FReepmail me to get on or off this Canada ping list.
BTW, no disrespect, but no one gives a rats ass about New Zealand
or what happens there..
It is but a pimple on the arse of humanity..
Not just his eggnog . He's been doing it himself. For years
I just read down through the posts here , My, there is a whole lot of stupid on this thread
I read, "Ontario can't stand Vermont's gun laws, and the existence of privately financed hospitals in Massachusetts "
That's new. Who knew.? Maybe one in a hundred thousand. Or two. Knew.
Link to the polls please and baiting is naughty.
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