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One in five Americans want their state to join Canada amid escalating trade war: poll (nationalpost.com)

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One in five Americans (20 per cent) polled by Leger this week say they would like their state to join Canada, more than double the proportion of Canadians who said they would like their country to become the 51st state of the United States. Article content

“Only 9 per cent of Canadians believe it is likely that Canada will become the 51st U.S. state. By contrast, 20 per cent of Americans would like their state to join Canada and become a Canadian province, a proportion that is higher among respondents aged 18 to 34 (30 per cent),” reads the new Léger report.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 week ago (14 children)

It would be amazing if we could have Washington and Oregon in Canada... :)

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 33 points 1 week ago (13 children)

And California, make a land bridge between Canada and Mexico! Plus Canada would jump from 9th largest GDP in the world to 3rd largest!

[+] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works -21 points 1 week ago (12 children)

No, it would not. California’s GDP is highly dependent on it being part of the USA. CA agriculture would get devastated when the US refuses access to water from the Colorado river as we just did this to Mexico this week. CA tech companies would flee California as the US government will tie access to DoD money to being an American company so the tech sector will flee as well. The third largest industry last I checked was education which gets a TON of US federal dollars.

California without the USA would rapidly look more like Slovenia than France economically speaking.

There aren’t many if any states that would be better off apart from the USA.

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

California could get water from Canada ;). Education funding is also on the chopping block unless they bow and scrape to Trump’s ideologies, so…

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

We could also reinvest federal tax money into desalination and renewable energy to power it.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 week ago

Not in the parts of CA that get water from the Colorado river

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