Well there's your first hurdle. The US will have little patience with the native strategy of land claiming the entire country out from under us year by year.
Next problem, a 51st state with Canada's population would add 53 electoral votes and 2 US Senators which would effectively swing the executive and legislative branches permanently for the Democrats so we would end up trapped in a union in terminal decline as progressively leftist policies bankrupt both our countries in what would become a single-party system. The Republicans in the senate can read those tea leaves as easily as I and would never approve such a suicide pact.
Next: Canadians are only marginally more attached to our shitty healthcare system than the British are to the NHS and joining the US would kill it unless it morphed into a state-run program like Massachusettes has so Canada would still have some of the highest taxes in the union. I guess the upshot there is that healthy people could flee to Florida or somewhere.
Well there's your first hurdle. The US will have little patience with the native strategy of land claiming the entire country out from under us year by year.
Next problem, a 51st state with Canada's population would add 53 electoral votes and 2 US Senators which would effectively swing the executive and legislative branches permanently for the Democrats so we would end up trapped in a union in terminal decline as progressively leftist policies bankrupt both our countries in what would become a single-party system. The Republicans in the senate can read those tea leaves as easily as I and would never approve such a suicide pact.
Next: Canadians are only marginally more attached to our shitty healthcare system than the British are to the NHS and joining the US would kill it unless it morphed into a state-run program like Massachusettes has so Canada would still have some of the highest taxes in the union. I guess the upshot there is that healthy people could flee to Florida or somewhere.