Epoch Times - Why Canada Isn’t Going to Become the 51st State: Cleo Paskal
Aired: 2025-03-28
Duration: 02:37


=== Structural Reasons Against (02:36) ===

[00:00:01]  Canada is not going to become the 51st state just for sheer structural reasons.
[00:00:06]  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.
[00:00:13]  We'd have more representatives in Congress than California would.
[00:00:19]  And they wouldn't be MAGA voters.
[00:00:22]  It would completely destabilize the U.S. political system from the inside.
[00:00:30]  The Republican Party doesn't want D.C. to become a state because it would put in a couple more Democrats into the House.
[00:00:39]  Imagine 30 or 40 Canadian Bernie Sanders-type representatives into the House.
[00:00:49]  And good luck with those 6 million.
[00:00:55]  French Quebecers, but half of whom would then want to separate from the U.S. It's a poison pill politically to bring it.
[00:01:05]  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.
[00:01:16]  So like Quebec separation, it becomes this storm.
[00:01:23]  This strawman dang in the system, right, that obscures what's really going on.
[00:01:30]  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.
[00:01:48]  Canada is allowing...
[00:01:51]  Criminal activity in Canada that spills over into the U.S., including around fentanyl.
[00:01:58]  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.
[00:02:15]  And that Vancouver was an area for crypto money laundering.
[00:02:20]  I mean, they knew there were these problems.
[00:02:21]  Sam Cooper writes about this very well.
[00:02:24]  Richard Burton.
[00:02:25]  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.