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Structural Reasons Against
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| Canada is not going to become the 51st state just for sheer structural reasons. | |
| And I don't think it would be good for the U.S. from a Trump administration perspective because we'd be the biggest state. | |
| We'd have more representatives in Congress than California would. | |
| And they wouldn't be MAGA voters. | |
| It would completely destabilize the U.S. political system from the inside. | |
| The Republican Party doesn't want D.C. to become a state because it would put in a couple more Democrats into the House. | |
| Imagine 30 or 40 Canadian Bernie Sanders-type representatives into the House. | |
| And good luck with those 6 million. | |
| French Quebecers, but half of whom would then want to separate from the U.S. It's a poison pill politically to bring it. | |
| So it's structurally a non-starter, what would be involved in terms of the referendum, passing through parliament, and all that sort of stuff. | |
| So like Quebec separation, it becomes this storm. | |
| This strawman dang in the system, right, that obscures what's really going on. | |
| And I think what's really going on is the U.S. is saying, your border is insecure, you are a security threat in a whole bunch of different ways, and we're protecting you, and have been for a long time, and we want this sorted out. | |
| Canada is allowing... | |
| Criminal activity in Canada that spills over into the U.S., including around fentanyl. | |
| And, I mean, Calvin Shrusty testified at the Cullen Commission two, three years ago, as he's a retired RCMP, that over a decade ago they were seeing the Sinaloa cartel, the Chinese triads, and the Iranians working out of the port of Vancouver. | |
| And that Vancouver was an area for crypto money laundering. | |
| I mean, they knew there were these problems. | |
| Sam Cooper writes about this very well. | |
| Richard Burton. | |
| I mean, we have been and are and continue to be a security risk to the U.S. We are a net security detractor, not provider. | |