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One in five Americans want their state to join Canada amid escalating trade war: poll
(nationalpost.com)
Canada has a functioning government. Sign me up!
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And universal health care, and 12 months EI for parental leave after the birth of a child.
Just to add, for anyone curious: Canadian healthcare is provincial, not federal, so your mileage may vary depending on which province you live in.
One of the "Canadian officials" recently quoted in American news for threatening to withhold electricity is Doug Ford, the Conservative Premier (i.e. the "Senator") of Ontario. While many Canadians have supported his response to Trump's tariffs, he's been dismantling Ontario's public healthcare by withholding public funding, so he can set up a two-tiered private/public system. He's also had a fair number of scandals. And was just comfortably re-elected :^)
While I have love for Ford, he's more akin to Governor than Senator.
Whoops! That's the word I was looking for :^) thanks
Geezus. OK then. Thank you for the info. I’m in B.C. And while things could be better, I can’t complain. I had a bad fall last year. Xrays were taken almost immediately in emergency. There was a long wait to see a doctor. Once I saw the doctor, surgery was scheduled really quickly with a surgeon. The up side? No bill.
Oh gosh, glad to hear things are somewhat better over there, healthcare-wise. I hope your recovery went/is going well!
6-18 months, depending on the province, with both extremes being elective, not mandated.
5-9 weeks for the dad too, also depending on province and elective.
Edit: also subsidized daycare in Quebec (180/mo is peanuts) with further subsidies for low income families. There's also a federal subsidy, but adoption has been slow by for profits.
Thank you for this info. I’m in B.C., so going by my province.
It would be amazing if we could have Washington and Oregon in Canada... :)
And California, make a land bridge between Canada and Mexico! Plus Canada would jump from 9th largest GDP in the world to 3rd largest!
Canadian Province of Oregon has a very nice ring to it!
And Washington! Also all of New England!
Hell, I'll vote for my state to join just about any country with a functioning healthcare system.
Such as?..
Canada, for one.
Well, I suppose relative to American health care it is.
I don't believe canada is perfect but the US is really fucking bad, so it would probably be an improvement.
Though enemies of the US would probably be cackling at it dissolving. US conservatives really are a heady cocktail of traitors and absolute fucking idiots.
It is time for global co-operation against Trump. Forget this silly divide and rule nonsense this bully is attempting.
All countries subject to tariffs now co-operate on joint tariffs against the US.
It is time we all put an end to this nonsense before it escalates. Let's put this moron, this belligerent non-cooperative fascist country in its new, much reduced globally influencing, box.
It is time for the US to pay its deficit.
Edit - I will say that Trump might want other countries to sell their US debt, in order to weaken the dollar to make the US an affordable manufacturer.
So:
- The rest of us decide on which currencies we buy: and this can not be the bitcoin the US might want countries to buy (rather than say the Yuan, or a basket of currencies that reflect global production).
- Selling debt has to be accompanied by a boycott of all US goods on an ongoing basis.
- This ends the post WW2 ... > ... petrodollar era of America's exorbitant privilege.
- Trump starts it, the rest of the world ends it. This is how, say, Europe, avoids the US/Russia alliance now threatening it.
You must stand up to bullies.
I'd love to see a map of support. I imagine the further north, the more likely to want to merge.
I'd sign up for it. Illinois isn't too far from Canada, and I'd live to see how the US gets by without Chicago. Good luck rerouting all your freight to avoid border crossings lol. Sigh. It'd never happen in a million years though.
I am originally from Michigan and I think Michigan would make a fine province in Canada. We all love beer, hockey, Ice fishing, fishing and affordable healthcare. Lets build the wall! The wall should be at the Ohio and Indiana border to keep those Trump supporters away from our inland lakes. #Michigan #FuckTrump
Canada please decline this offer until a sane generation is old enough to vote, the current ones are broken
Oh don't worry 99% of us have been seeing the online requests and cackling at the sheer fucking hubris lmao
Bet its even higher for some states.
Nah, we're good.
I guess Oklahoma and Texas are driving that number down?
When shit hits the fan, just fight on our side (PS: Bring your national guard assets with you too, so they can fight on our side against the Nazis, thanks!).
You guys can't join till either trump is gone or we get some form of defence pact(noncompliance whatever) from individual states