President-elect Trump told Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau his country should become the 51st state if it can't fix trade and immigration issues without ripping off the U.S.
The bugbear I have whenever anyone calls another place the 51st state is surely they’d be more than one state? Like there’s 10 provinces wouldn’t it be 10 more states IDK.
I could see Norway admitted as a single state with some clause to permit the split of two new states from it in the same way as the “New States of convenient size not exceeding four in number” thing when Texas was admitted. Canada, though? Suriname can certainly pull off having a single administrative division comprising well over half the country, but I’m not so sure about the USA…
Sent from Mdewakanton Dakota lands / Sept. 29 1837
The bugbear I have whenever anyone calls another place the 51st state is surely they’d be more than one state? Like there’s 10 provinces wouldn’t it be 10 more states IDK.
It depends on which party would benefit in the senate.
Alberta will be divided into multiple states to maximize its votes in the Senate and the Electoral College.
maybe quebec is a state and the rest is federal territory
I could see Norway admitted as a single state with some clause to permit the split of two new states from it in the same way as the “New States of convenient size not exceeding four in number” thing when Texas was admitted. Canada, though? Suriname can certainly pull off having a single administrative division comprising well over half the country, but I’m not so sure about the USA…
Sent from Mdewakanton Dakota lands / Sept. 29 1837
Treaty with the Sioux of September 29th, 1837
“We Will Talk of Nothing Else”: Dakota Interpretations of the Treaty of 1837