I’m down for that. I live in California, being a Canadian province would double Canada’s population and more than double its GDP.
I think there’s a lot that we could offer each other. I’d personally love to see it.
sorry we got to do a purge first. we can’t be joining any canada until we deal with this problem internally…
Those statistics are bs
This is a horse shit idea. I don’t want the culture here to be watered down. I’d be wary of any state wanting to join confederation, and also concerned about the uptick in immigration from the USA.
I’ll offer you the state of New York. You can have the tax base of NYC. I’m sure most of New England minus New Hampshire would be down with this.
Even NH could join up, and straight go the same way that Quebec enjoys.
I, an Arizonan, would gladly become part of Mexico. A quarter of my heritage is there already.
Actually id rather just break the united states into smaller countries.
Finding common ground and priorities with such a large populace is so non-productive.
There’s an argument for states rights and a smaller federal government.
Individual Canadian provinces enjoy more Autonomy than your average US state.
States’ rights can be great when you agree with the policies, but I’m personally harrowed by stories of state government showing obvious contempt for their big cities.
That could be solved by big cities having autonomy as well. Just like big cities in most European countries being their own province-level entities. Heck, don’t even need to look further than Mexico City.
So i need to move?
Can we have California? I want their movie industry to be Canadian.
A lot of filming is done in Canada anyway because cheaper
And nobody in Canada wants this because 70 million americans voted for Trump
I’d way rather join EU so we get smart people coming into the country
We do share a land border with Denmark. We settled a border dispute with Denmark on Hans Island. We also have France just a few kilometers off the coast of Newfoundland in St Pierre and Miquelon.
We should use that as a path to EU membership
I think it’s on the State level not the whole US. I’m fine with that.
Would like New England so we can have it unite with New Scotland to form the New United Kingdom and have Prince Albert(a) from New Brunswick be it’s Monarch’s consort and patron explorers, like Columbus but British so a British Columbia, to sail the seas to claim New Found Land and Labour to teach New English to New France until they can have Nunavut anymore.
It’s me. I’m the 1 in 5 Americans. I would so much rather be there than here.
In theory
I mean, I appreciate the sentiment, but, I would much rather Americans actually came together and fixed their own shit rather than bailing on hundreds of years of work by leaving.
Same
Same
No.
Issue: Canada exterminates natives, proving extreme racism.
The inuit have their own area which is basically all of the northern part of Canada
Meee.
Oh grow a pair and start setting shit on fire.
if yall could do the white house again like last time it’d be much appreciated
That was the British, in 1814.
Huh. Read up on it and yeah that’s a more accurate description of “who” burned down the white house since it was British generals
In retaliation for US aggression against the Canadian (then) colony, which I guess is where the misconception comes from
In my defense my US public school history education was pretty dogshit
Make sure Krasnov and his little dog Vance are in it though.
Do it yourself.
honestly fair enough lol
This comment won the internet for today.
I say we storm the capital next winter! /S
I’ll beat this drum again: I would fully support a program where we exchange equal numbers of MAGA loyalists in Canada for trained doctors, engineers, and tradespeople looking to escape fascism.
The Americans have already shown interest in this with their idea of importing white South Africans. Is this an impossible idea?
If it’s dumb and it works, then you take the dumb and exchange it for the works, it’s not dumb, well, the dumb isn’t there anymore and now you have more works!!
Europe could also send over our USA-lovers to MAGA-land. I like the way you think.
Yeah just put them all in a big dystopian hellhole, its basically what they want so you’re actually making them happy by doing it. They can worship billionaires while complaining about not having any social benefits and experience hardships like a bunch of repressed peasants.
Are we doing Escape from New York on a national level? I’m for it.
Fuck yeah!
They will cry about having their faces eaten off, but it kind of won’t be our problem anymore.
You just need to convince them that they are making it happen themselves.
And using a fishnet boat.
That’s the perfect meme, because I do feel guilty about how this fucks over my friends and family in the US. But as they don’t seem motivated to fix their own country, I feel like this may be a good way to at least help some people
I’ve pointed out before that most of the MAGA-land folks in Canada likely currently don’t have a viable path to immigrate to the USA, see https://lemmy.ca/post/41215108/15425311 and https://lemmy.ca/post/41215108/15458003
But that doesn’t mean we can’t make one for them!
I imagine we could easily negotiate something like the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement, but between Canada and the USA - but with the additional condition that MAGA is a disqualifying condition for coming to Canada.
Like the TTTA, we should also allow the green card holders in.
Yeah likely would need to create a special system of refugee status or similar. Maybe around the concept of escaping “woke-ism”?
We’ve got a bunch of cookers in Australia we need to dump too.
Make it crokadil and you have a deal.
scientists are smart enough to escape first, no such luck for MS, AND BS of stem though, as were not “valuable” in for-profit stem industry.
I hope Canada can change this.
One challenge has been that many of our best-educated people have left for the US, which has blunted some of the economic trickle-down effects that should accompany publicly-funded research. So we incur the costs but yet not reap the benefits, which dulls public enthusiasm for supporting this.
It’s entirely plausible to me that this system has been upended and think we should reevaluate these choices to consider expanding funding for science not directly tied to industry and short-term benefits. But I don’t think it’ll be as easy as snapping our fingers
It doesn’t even need to be equal, TBH, although if we have a refugee wave we probably will need to restrict them from some of the housing supply.
Each refugee can keep 1 home for every 3 homes they build. Obviously one human isn’t building 3 homes, but if a squad of 50 refugees build 150 homes, they keep 50 and sell 50. This includes turning single family homes into plexes.
Im conflicted on multi-use buiness sapce. Either homes can be replaced with businesses at a ratio set by each city, but probably somewhere in the 1/5 to 1/10 range; or business are excluded from the sell 2/3rds rule (aka you could build a 4 plex with 3 homes and one business, than keep one home and one business, selling 2 homes)
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
[Doctor with stethoscope confusedly swinging a hammer]
Ah yes, lets build houses with 0 code by people who are VERY unfamiliar with our climate
Sounds great till you put 2 brain cells together
The workers don’t define code…
Ive worked for a Sikh Indian on a 4 story hotel and he tried to bypass lots of regulations and did get caught a few times. I had to install door hangars on every door in the rented rooms after the drywall was installed.
Lots of moved electrical lines not on drawing and never added to BPs. So yeah, I call BS
That’s a case of someone not following code, has nothing to do with immigration status.
Thats just one case of many I had witnessed. Now take people who are desperate and you will see people cutting corners everywhere.
Plus, how many job sites have you personally worked on??
I mean, that’s in the end how it works, right? Immigrants take your houses/jobs/whatever, but they also make them, and actually at a higher rate than they take them for several reasons.
It’s just them all coming at once faster than we can build stuff that would be the problem. When an American asks me about emigrating on here, I say “bring an RV”.
No thanks. More Americans is the last thing we need in Canada
So more Chinese?
Does it have to be one or the other?
Didn’t you hear? The world is only made up of Canadians, Americans and The Chinese™
No, there’s a half Asians in USA too.
