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I sincerely believe that the provinces of Canada will eventually join the USA.

We had better be very selective in which ones we would allow in. The Maritime Provinces are full of descendents of people who left this country - before it was a country - because they sided with the British. Quebec is and will always be French. Ontario is Massachusetts North.

If you want to see a socialist United States, bring them all in.

"Ontario is Massachusetts North."
If any province is Massachusetts North, it is Nova Scotia, not Ontario.
Ontario voted Conservative in its last 2 elections, supported by federal Reformers who had left the federal Progressive Conservative Party, leaving the "Progressive" or "Red Tory" wing behind.
Ontario tends to vote Liberal federally and Conservative provincially, although it will occasionally vote Conservative federally and Liberal provincially. (Strategic voting is more important in a multi-party system than it is in a two-party system like the US.)
Our problem is that the conservatives are not cohesive and the federal Liberal Party has managed to hold sway by shifting its centre of gravity to the left or right to accomodate contemporary wisdon. The federal Lberal Party is not truly liberal and the Progressive Conservative Party is not truly conservative.
Unlike the US, the provincial and federal parties are different organizations, so a Canadian might be a Progressive Conservative provincially and a liveral federally.
Canada is a confederation, not a federation as is the US and as such there is more autonomy in the provinces than in the US states, (i.e. less centralization, although this is changing toward US style centralization)

"If you want to see a socialist United States, bring them all in."

You are incorrect, sir. Most of the liberals are concentrated in the urban areas and most of the conservatives in the rural areas, just like in the US. You would find a demographic very similar to that of the US. I think you would see a conservative swing in the independent voters since 9-11 (remember liberal-Gore won the popular vote here in the US but that doesn't mean most Americans can be classified as liberals).

The problem with Canada is its system of government, not that it is overrun with liberals. The Prime Minister appoints the Senators, giving him almost dictatorial power.

If Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and BC were to join the Union it would probably result in 7 or 8 conservative directly elected Senators. The balance of the provinces would split. Parties would realign - the Rats absorbing some of the liberals and the Republicans absorbing some of the conservatives