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Canada and the 61st State
Could the USA Add 11 New Canadian States?
With all due respect to my Canadian friends and readers, who are content with their wonderful nation and have no desire to Make Canada Less Great than it already is, just for fun, let’s take a look at the idea being floated of Canada as the 51st American state. But wait! Maybe the 52nd if Greenland gets there first! You folks up North better hurry!
My main thesis in this post is that Canada coming into the Union as a single state makes absolutely no political sense for Canadians. Just look at the American Senate. Why would 37 million Canadians agree to come into a Union where they would have only two Senators in the powerful political body that is the US Senate, the same number of Senators as states like Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska and the two Dakotas, all with two Senators and yet all with fewer than one million people? And, since we are talking fantasy, if we suppose that Greenland with 55,000 people came into the Union, also with two Senators, a vote for Senator by one person in Greenland would have a theoretical “political weight” 673 times that of a person in Canada. And that weight would carry over into every vote on every matter taken up by the US Senate.
