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MolotovCocktail says

Could Saskatchewan and/or Alberta vote to succeed from Canada and petition the US Congress to admit them as the 51 and 52 states?

I'm vaguely familiar with how a territory gains statehood.. but have no idea how a Canadian province could cleave themselves from thier current mother country.

Perhaps we just make like a football trade. They give us Saskatchewan we give them Minnesota.

GreaterNYCDude says

Perhaps we just make like a football trade. They give us Saskatchewan we give them Minnesota.

No. Iron ore is massive business in N. Minnesota. If you haven't been to Duluth you wouldn't know. Not a knock on you, but I know most here have done little to no visits to the midwest.

No trades. We just take. Canada has no leverage. We don't need to give anything up. You ain't giving up the land of 10k lakes to Canada. You can't lose that Lake Superior real estate either.

MolotovCocktail says

My brother in law just bought a house and is working on US citizen ship in Minnesota (not sure why they picked there). He's Canadian and doesn't want to go back. I don't know which countries have birthright citizenship, but one of their kids was born in Austria the other Italy. Like military people though the kids are American citizens.

I know with Italy you get free college if you're considered a citizen, but I'm too lazy to look up the birthright citizenship rule as it has no bearing on my life.

But yeah, he's a Canadian at 38, so it's a larger demographic than you think that want to leave the country permanently. The snowbirds will do their drive down to FL and get a place for 3 months. Those are mostly retirees. If the young people act on these numbers, Canada's economy is Fucked especially during the winter.

Losing the younger demo that can work and put money into tax revenue would kill their socialist health care program. Then factor in that in 5-10 years 50% of the population could be moved or out of country for December to March. Sales taxes would drop significantly. You can't lose a quarter to half of tax revenue and support old people.

Places like MT, MN, WI, MI could get a lot of Canadians to live there. Eastern French Canadians I think would stay. Same with Western ones. The central part of Canada, next to the US border, is where the people are that would flee. Those are immigrants I'd take all day if done legally. Work hard, nice, speak english and white (sorry to black and hispanic pat netters that lurk or are active)