Why Canada Isn’t Going to Become the 51st State: Cleo Paskal
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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.