Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

–“Canada is a lot bigger than Greenland, so do you think that they could just join America overnight? Wouldn’t it need a little bit more planning?”–

Not really – one year for constitutional revision in Canada’s federal to state constitution to preserve their (left wing) biases, health care and so on, and the revision of the US treaties and laws and procedures to accommodate the addition of yet another large state (NY, CA, FL, TX and then Canada.

It might not be clear to canadians that because of their population and territory they would have extraordinary influence on the federal government – more so than they have over the canadian government.

It might not be clear that some of us are more patriotic to our states than we are to the federal government. And that this would likely apply to canadians as well.

My suspicion is that canada’s integration would lead to imitation of canadian health care by other large states, with the preservation of medicare for all by the smaller states.

While we would prefer to bring in each province as a state, this would upset the balance of power in the senate precisely because Canada is so left wing (a mommy state – individual irresponsibility) and the USA is center right (a daddy state – individual responsibility).

The USA could accommodate this difficulty in the senate by re-apportioning the number of senators, but this would delay the transition as it’s a constitutional revision rather than ‘yet another state added’.

So, instead we would leave open the capacity of canadians to establish provinces as states once fully integrated such that existing canadians adapted to the burden of responsibility americans share for the global order and canadians don’t. This will take around a generation.

This is quite doable and is absolutely in the interest of canadians and americans.

Conversely, I’d rather we both unite and re-join england just so we could have the monarchy as a check and balance against our presidencies. 😉

Affections;
(As a former resident of Ontario, and child of the NY border with Canada.)
-CD

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