Let me know if that’s gonna happen so I can move to MN real quick
Out of all the States, Minnesota is one of the few I’d have almost zero objection to welcoming in. “Minnesota Nice” and “Canadian Polite” are closely related (but somewhat different).
Sadly, it will never happen. Adding a province requires re-opening the Constitution, and that’s not going to happen. (If you’re too young to remember, look up the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords)
I’m in. I love hockey, politeness, and poutine. I can handle winter and cold. I already know the anthem in English and French, because hockey. And I hate the Leafs.
And I hate the Leafs.
You could have just said this part and I’d fully support you as a citizen.
That, or the Canucks, would have been equally acceptable.
Carney should send some kind of delegation down there. You know…nothing official. Just to “talk”.
No. We’re not criminals.
I’d be curious to see how many are actually expatriating to Canada right now from the US.
Whenever anyone left of The Homelander gets elected to office, there are waves of conservatives screaming about leaving the USA all over the internet and also getting on local news and shit, and the problem with this narrative from the right is that if they want to go somewhere further right than the US already is, they would have to go to somewhere like Russia… which is exactly what a couple did, ending predictably. The rest are too chickenshit to actually move to a place that doesn’t have the comforts liberal democracy has given them.
But shit, Canada is a fantastic option if you’re trying to escape things like being sent to the frontline of a trench war and think that you shouldn’t be killed in the street for not having your papers, and they’re just a snowy fenceline away for thousands of miles. Is Carney drafting plans for a mass immigration?
If he gets too many US refugees, will he have to make his own ICE to round up American immigrants? Can I at least ask my Canadian brothers up there to make sure it’s named ICE ICE BABY?
I find it hilarious that this made its way to CBC. Usually they don’t stir the international politics pot like this.
If you haven’t watched this beauty, please do. It’s hilariously accurate on Minnesotan communication, and I believe many of our Canadian brethren will identify with it. Might even help our chances of getting in.
Thanks, PBS!
Imagine the national hockey team we’d have.
This is the Canadian plan to get their national goaltenders back on track
They can have the goaltenders if they also take their ted cruz back and keep him there. I feel like Canada did a drive-by trash dumping when Cruz showed up here.
Just make sure Texas is a frozen wasteland to keep Cruz out of the USA.
No thank you. Send him out on an ice floe.
No shot this will actually happen, but I support it. Fuck this country
It’s not new, these stories have been around a long time. And yeah nobody takes them seriously, it’s more of a meta-political cartoon type joke that gets shared as a way of saying “People talkin’ this way right about now”.
If Minnesota goes, I bet Wisconsin would be soon to follow after recent events.
Nah, Wisconsin is too purple, sadly. This is the state, after all, that voted for the semi-sentient bucket of pig shit named F. Ron Johnson over Russ Feingold. Maybe Douglas County and blue parts of LaCrosse could sneak in there on the edge of Minnetoba undetected, though.
Scott Walker was a real piece of shit too if I recall correctly.
There’s be some rivalry between Wisconsin and Québec regarding who makes the best cheese curds.
I think there’s room for both.
If Québec would be open to making poutine with deep-fried cheese curds, it could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
With both fried cheese and fried potatoes you could call it Poutine deux frite.
Putin wouldnt mind some US states fragmenting and joining canada so maybe he’ll allow trump to allow it. It’d cause more carnage in American politics.
Out of the fire, into the frying pan?
In the purely hypothetical situation where Minnesota joined Canada, it would most likely become its own province and not be fused with Manitoba.
My first thought. Would their politics shift right or are Manitoba and the PC only right-wing in the context of Canada?
Minnesota has about 4x the population of Manitoba, by the way.
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The most left wing of the US is still right of anything in Canada.
I did not know that Minnesota was that populated.
I mean, it’s not. Unless you live in Manitoba.
Hah, or the rest of Western Canada. At 5.8 million it has more people than either British Columbia or Alberta. Although it is close.
I’m in Texas and have been looking into Manitoba, and can assure you based on their parties alone that it’s “only right-wing in the context of Canada” 100%.
I have no idea what adding Minnesota would do though, it would completely change politics in the area even if it was its own province, never mind the US actually allowing that to happen.
Well, they support universal healthcare and abortion. The Manitoba PC is kind of a mix.
Tbf the only reason the PCs support abortion is because of our Supreme Court struck down the laws that criminalized it.
In 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in R. v. Morgentaler that the existing law was unconstitutional, and struck down the 1969 Act. The ruling found that the 1969 abortion law violated a woman’s right to “life, liberty and security of the person” guaranteed under Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms established in 1982.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Canada
Former PM Stephen Harper then put the last nail in the coffin when he announced the federal PCs would not challenge the ruling. This is because although abortion is considered legal here there is no law on the books that makes it so. If the PCs were to challenge the SCoC’s ruling they would likely force the feds to make a law the enshrined abortion care as legal.
Oh don’t worry, I’m under no delusion it’s some sort of leftist utopia, it’s just that Manitoba could be FAR worse. Please keep fighting for those rights regardless of whatever laws are in place, don’t just assume it’s all settled.
They should sort their own problems out, not try to get us to do it for them.
Besides, we don’t want them. Too many Americans.
This is old, but hits the mark perfectly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxgpMLSK_I8
Minnesotans are Canadian Lite though. They share similar values and accents.
the twin cities doesn’t have a ‘chinatown’ or a ‘little italy’–they have little canada
They’re extremely right wing compared to the average Canadian. 47% of their vote went to Trump last election.
Ask them if they’re ready to give up their second amendment rights to join Canada. Ask them what they think about socialized health care. Bet a lot of that eagerness to join will fade.
