Western Provinces Just DECLARED 51st–56th Statehoods & Carney Throws Tantrum Fit!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pomaOG1X88Y

[DefiantMassRINO]

I find it hard to believe that filthy French Canadians in Quebec would want to join the United States.  No speakie Frenchie in America.

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I find it hard to believe that filthy French Canadians in Quebec would want to join the United States.  No speakie Frenchie in America.

It happened before. That is why creole Cajuns speak pidgin French. Cajuns came from the Quebec area and migrated to Southern Louisiana.

Look it up for fun. It is interesting.

[Wingnut]

I find it hard to believe that filthy French Canadians in Quebec would want to join the United States.  No speakie Frenchie in America.

 Le Quebecois.
You know. Wine drinkers. Pea soup eaters. French Canadians!

[Smokin Joe]

WEXIT!

We live in interesting times.

[The_Reader_David]

The Quebequois won't want to join the US.  They'd have to accept the First Amendment, and the free-exercise clause would get in the way of their more-French-than-France version of laïcité.  I can believe the western provinces, esp. Alberta with its let-the-Eastern-bastards-freeze-in-the-dark attitude toward Ontario and Quebec, would want to join.  They'd be happy with the whole Bill of Rights.

[Smokin Joe]

The Quebequois won't want to join the US.  They'd have to accept the First Amendment, and the free-exercise clause would get in the way of their more-French-than-France version of laïcité.  I can believe the western provinces, esp. Alberta with its let-the-Eastern-bastards-freeze-in-the-dark attitude toward Ontario and Quebec, would want to join.  They'd be happy with the whole Bill of Rights.

I believe you are right. The Quebecois have been raising a ruckus about independence for years, but I don't think they want to become a US State, ever.

[DefiantMassRINO]

When Cajuns (French Acadians) went to Lousiana after being expelled by the British (who gained control of Acadia in 1713) in 1755, Louisiana was still under the control of France.

Snotty Quebecois are not going to submit to Anglo-American culture.

I suspect Quebcois would pefere to join Haiti than to accept American English as an equal languague to Quebecois.  They will still demand that Quebcois signage must use a larger font size than English.

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I suspect Quebcois would pefere to join Haiti than to accept American English as an equal languague to Quebecois.  They will still demand that Quebcois signage must use a larger font size than English.

No sane person would ever go to Haiti these days. Haiti as it is today is not fit for human habitation.
The leader there is known as Barbecue. He is an indiscriminate mass murderer and is known for cannibalism.

[Fishrrman]

We don't want Quebec.

Let it exist as a free-standing nation (it will have access to international waters via the St. Lawrence River).

It may become a refuge for "Old World" native French trying to escape their country from the coming islamic takeover...

We don't want Ontario, either. Let it join up with eastern Minnesota, Michigan, perhaps the northern tip of Illinois to include Chicago. Truth is, we would be better off without the leftists in those states.

We DO want Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.
Add to that the Yukon and Northwest Territories.

British Columbia?
Full of leftists, give it to the new nation comprised of California and the western thirds of Oregon and Washington.

The Maritimes?
They can either split off into their own nation, or perhaps keep up some kind of union with Ontario.

[roamer_1]

WEXIT!

We live in interesting times.

THREE provinces AND the Territories (which I take to be NWT and Yukon) - OVER HALF of people surveyed want independence or US statehood.

Just WOW.

[Wingnut]

THREE provinces AND the Territories (which I take to be NWT and Yukon) - OVER HALF of people surveyed want independence or US statehood.

Just WOW.

Take the ones that make a straight shot to Alaska!

[roamer_1]

Take the ones that make a straight shot to Alaska!

That's really a thing. That's the Yukon and Alberta. Saskatchewan too, to get the stuff over above the midwest...

But Manitoba is the distribution manifold. Those altogether and it's almost plug-n-play.

Then NWT and inland BC just for shits and giggles. 

THEN, without the west, how long will Quebec hold onto the Maritimes?

Too early to see, but this stuff has been cooking ever since the Trucker's  strike.

[Wingnut]

That's really a thing. That's the Yukon and Alberta. Saskatchewan too, to get the stuff over above the midwest...

But Manitoba is the distribution manifold. Those altogether and it's almost plug-n-play.

Then NWT and inland BC just for shits and giggles. 

THEN, without the west, how long will Quebec hold onto the Maritimes?

Too early to see, but this stuff has been cooking ever since the Trucker's  strike.

Can you imagine the boom that would be to both economies!  Gas. Oil. Pipelines. Minerals. Timber.  It is a Tree huggers nightmare.

[Wingnut]

I texted my Canadian friends and they say this is not rue....fwiw.

You are an Idiot.

[Canuck Conservative]

OK, here's a reality check from Ground Zero ...

This article is about the guy running the current stay-in-Canada petition in Alberta

https://nationalpost.com/news/thomas-lukaszuk-what-alberta-anti-separatist-worries-about

He puts "hard" Alberta separatists at about 10%, with another "soft" 10% of maybe-supporters

I live in Calgary, and I'd say the actual numbers are probably about double that ... but even that isn't enough for any separation yet

And this is about Alberta, the most independence-minded Province (outside of Quebec) in Canada ... so don't count on any new northern states yet

(* If you really want to bet, put your money on Quebec separating first ... the Bloc Quebecois will soon be back in power, and their sole reason for being is getting out of Canada ...)

[Smokin Joe]

The Western Provinces beef with Ottawa is simple enough. They feel they are being excessively taxed without sufficient representation. The phrase "treated like a colony" sums that sentiment up.

Those of us in flyover country 'get it', despite having as much representation under the Constitution as we are entitled to, and that assumes they are representing us to the Government, not the other way around.

But squeaky wheels get grease, and the Western provinces have to make their grievances known.

The more those grievances resound with provincial citizens and are ignored by Ottawa or simply blown off, the more the movement will grow.

[DB]

I know...

Idiots generally don't know they're idiots. So either you are exceptional, or you're not an idiot...

[jafo2010]

When pigs fly.

And if there was such an effort, I would say it is the globalists pushing it, and I certainly do not want anything to do with globalism.

And frankly, the Canadians are intolerable.  Their superiority complex can be exhausting.

[Sighlass]

Yeah, most Canadians (except some in the interior) are bat-crazy liberal. Would be nice to have a highway to Alaska, but not at the cost of importing more crazy. Not fond of anything "Indian" to be honest, they want too many privileges.

[Smokin Joe]

Yeah, most Canadians (except some in the interior) are bat-crazy liberal. Would be nice to have a highway to Alaska, but not at the cost of importing more crazy. Not fond of anything "Indian" to be honest, they want too many privileges.

There is a certain level of socialism ingrained in the current Canadian system. Especially in regards health care and pogie (unemployment). I'm not so sure that would flange up well with our system.

In addition, though, the VAT (GST plus value added taxes at the provincial level) are brutal (15%) in the east, not so severe in the interior provinces (just the 5% GST). What I think would be beneficial is a good, resource extraction based partner, an independent country.
I think a lot of that would get sorted out, and there would be a better chance to make additional states after a period of that, provided the former Canadians wanted to do so.
When you talk about the interior, though, From Manitoba to the interior part of B.C. is similar in many ways to their counterparts on the US side of the border. Eastern Washington State and Eastern Oregon are different from the coastal parts, not just population density wise, but in general philosophy, much like Northern and Eastern California.
 Idaho, Montana, and North Dakota, are all States which have relied heavily economically on resource extraction, be it coal, metals, or oil, and on agriculture as well.

Birds of a feather.

Yes, urban areas seem to be more Leftist/socialist/"liberal", increasingly with population density, but we are talking about low population density areas which only have concentrations of people related primarily to their industries. IOW, they tend to be more conservative in their thinking, especially compared to the largest cities on the coasts and even in the continental interior which indirectly mine the resources of the more rural areas, while focusing on the problems in their urban back yards to the detriment of the very areas that provide the resources they demand.

From Alaska to Texas, there is a vast strip where the thinking is similar, the ethos is something people have more in common than with the majority of their urban neighbors on the coasts.

Statehood might prove to be too great a jump, but I'd like to see them independent of Ottawa.