One in five Americans (20 per cent) polled by Leger this week say they would like their state to join Canada, more than double the proportion of Canadians who said they would like their country to become the 51st state of the United States. Article content
“Only 9 per cent of Canadians believe it is likely that Canada will become the 51st U.S. state. By contrast, 20 per cent of Americans would like their state to join Canada and become a Canadian province, a proportion that is higher among respondents aged 18 to 34 (30 per cent),” reads the new Léger report.
It would be amazing if we could have Washington and Oregon in Canada… :)
And California, make a land bridge between Canada and Mexico! Plus Canada would jump from 9th largest GDP in the world to 3rd largest!
No, it would not. California’s GDP is highly dependent on it being part of the USA. CA agriculture would get devastated when the US refuses access to water from the Colorado river as we just did this to Mexico this week. CA tech companies would flee California as the US government will tie access to DoD money to being an American company so the tech sector will flee as well. The third largest industry last I checked was education which gets a TON of US federal dollars.
California without the USA would rapidly look more like Slovenia than France economically speaking.
There aren’t many if any states that would be better off apart from the USA.
Colorado is blue so it’s coming along!
Which means nothing as the Feds control that water
We’re taking Nevada, Arizona and Nevada as well if that’s how you want to play!
Not if the whole coast is owned by Canada! The Pacific will be theirs!
Go look for the source if that river. Then look at how critical it is to the USA. Then compare the arsenals of the two nations. Canada will never control the Colorado river.
Colorado? One of the bluest states in the USA?
Colorado is weird because it’s a very blue center with a lot of red on the outskirts. I have family who used to live their Denver and the surrounding area deep blue a little farther out rural and light red.
You do realize California residents and companies pay more taxes to the federal government than they receive back, right? Pretty sure they can easily fund their own education with some of that money.
Yes they get back .95for every $1.
Now remember how I said the 3rd largest industry was education which got tons of federal dollars? When a kid in NCgets a grant for college and spends it at UCLA that money was “spent” in NC despite going to CA so it is entirely posdible CA takes in more than it gives.
California would be a third world nation very fast if it left the USA.
California could get water from Canada ;). Education funding is also on the chopping block unless they bow and scrape to Trump’s ideologies, so…
We could also reinvest federal tax money into desalination and renewable energy to power it.
Not in the parts of CA that get water from the Colorado river