Canada Catch-All | Trump 51st State “plan”

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Only if:
1) Americans can sign up for Canada's health plan
2) Canada is admitted as states 51-60 (it has 10 provinces) so each province state would get 2 electoral votes and 2 US Senate seats. This would help redress the currehnt R advantage in those two areas
 
My stepson's Canadian girlfriend (they've only known each other through the internet) tried to come down from Saskatchewan to where he lives in California. She flew into Vancouver, and before she could catch her connecting flight, she got interviewed by Immigration & Customs. She had a valid passport and ID, but they asked her for tax documents and work history, and about 10 other things, and drilled down on how she was going to support herself here, and ended up denying her entry.

She ended up stranded in Vancouver, hungry, and with no place to stay. We were able to get her a pizza and an uber to a hotel (though we had lots of problems with trying to use American credit cards), and now they're just going to drive to North Dakota to pick her up.

I've never heard of this level of bureaucracy coming/going from Canada to US. Is this the new normal...did Trump sign some kind of executive order about this?

And going forward, would a Nexus card solve it?
This is fascinating to me.

How long is/was she planning on staying in the US for this trip?
 
Only if:
1) Americans can sign up for Canada's health plan
2) Canada is admitted as states 51-60 (it has 10 provinces) so each province state would get 2 electoral votes and 2 US Senate seats. This would help redress the currehnt R advantage in those two areas
Fuck that. They deserve more electoral votes. Ontario, alone, would be the fifth largest state by population. Quebec would be 14th. We would also need to restructure the House to account for the new states.
 
Only if:
1) Americans can sign up for Canada's health plan
2) Canada is admitted as states 51-60 (it has 10 provinces) so each province state would get 2 electoral votes and 2 US Senate seats. This would help redress the currehnt R advantage in those two areas
Based on population, they would get at least 3 votes.
 
Fuck that. They deserve more electoral votes. Ontario, alone, would be the fifth largest state by population. Quebec would be 14th. We would also need to restructure the House to account for the new states.
Yes, thanks for correcting my brain freeze/error. A few of the provinces would definetly get more than 2 electoral otes. The Dems would be at muc less of a disadvanage re control of EC and Senate so DJT make this haopenn!
 
Are we thinking something like N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming?

Because a $1 a state sounds fair to me.
Something like that. And Texas/Oklahoma to Mexico so they don't feel left out.

Even better would be to send a platoon of troops on some mission to assassinate the prime minister or something, while tying up our other forces in a huge military parade. Canada would sniff out the plot, declare war on us, and occupy a lot of our territory while our tanks and soldiers are strutting down PA Ave. Then the president would make a peace that involved Canada keeping the land it had fought for. You know.
 
I don't watch hockey, but I was delighted to wake up this morning and see that Team Canada beat Team USA. I will never pull for the USA in anything while Trump is president, and I can justify that because what is currently happening in our country is not American. As far as I'm concerned, we've been
overtaken by the enemy and are now a different country entirely. And since our citizens voted for it, I don't feel the least bit bad about rejecting it.
 
I don't watch hockey, but I was delighted to wake up this morning and see that Team Canada beat Team USA. I will never pull for the USA in anything while Trump is president, and I can justify that because what is currently happening in our country is not American. As far as I'm concerned, we've been
overtaken by the enemy and are now a different country entirely. And since our citizens voted for it, I don't feel the least bit bad about rejecting it.
I get what you're saying but I pretty strongly disagree. We're still stronger as a union than as a divided nation. As bad as we are trending, I can honestly say that the 50s through the 80s were definitely worse. History indicates the same about the time of the robber barons.

I'm more concerned that both sides are being played by forces who would like to end our system of government. I don't think either side wants that although, imo, one side has been seriously manipulated to support those who want that.
 
I get what you're saying but I pretty strongly disagree. We're still stronger as a union than as a divided nation. As bad as we are trending, I can honestly say that the 50s through the 80s were definitely worse. History indicates the same about the time of the robber barons.

I'm more concerned that both sides are being played by forces who would like to end our system of government. I don't think either side wants that although, imo, one side has been seriously manipulated to support those who want that.
I lived through the 60s, 70s and 80s and I can say without a doubt they we were more United, as a country, than we are today. The only time in our history where we were this divided was the 1850s.
 
I lived through the 60s, 70s and 80s and I can say without a doubt they we were more United, as a country, than we are today. The only time in our history where we were this divided was the 1850s.
"We" were more united because all the minorities of any type were ignored and 80-90% of the country considered themselves Christian. Imo, that's the wrong way to be united.
 
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