vorticity Wrote:Rob, I guess a more appropriate question would be: Would Canada be willing to accept an additional 39 million people in the form of an additional province? I realize that this would more than double the population of Canadians. Trump has expressed admiration for Brexit, so I'm sure he'll have no problem with %[link=http://www.yescalifornia.org/]Calexit]. Apparently Oregon will consider the same.
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Oh, that's an interesting question.
Despite the number of times that both sides have explored the idea, we've never offered the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands]Turks and Caicos Islands status as a Canadian province, despite both them and Canada having the same head of state. On the other hand, we've never had both sides explore the idea at the same time, and there's a lot of Caribbean between Canada and the Turks and Caicos.
And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p ... _of_Canada]Wikipedia says there's been some interest in the past (at different times) from Vermont, Maine, and parts of Minnesota seceding from the USA and joining Canada. Nothing's ever come of those initiatives, either.
However, the communities of the US "left coast" would be a good fit for Canadian values... and California has money.
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