….is in this article by Danielle Pletka, at substack.com, titled “#WTH O [No!] Canada”. It is honest, direct, and spares no side.
Here is how it starts:
For reasons that are slightly mysterious to many (most?) of us, Donald Trump has been on a crusade to add Canada as America’s 51st state. The President has big eyes — Greenland! the Panama Canal! Gaza! — but some of those imperial ambitions make strategic sense. Neither Greenlanders nor Panamanians may want us, but it’s not crazy for us to want them. The Canal is a critical shipping route which Communist China has been eyeing for years; and Greenland has vital access to the Arctic region that may well become the scene of the 21st century’s Great Game. Gaza… even Trump doesn’t want to actually keep it. And Canada? Sorry, no thanks.
Here’s why: Canada’s per capita income is half the per capita income of the State of New York. If Canada became it’s own state, its per capita income would be ranked at number 49, just above Mississippi. ’s The entirety of Canada’s GDP would rank just below California, Texas, and New York’s. And each of Canada’s ten provinces would be at the tail of median earnings in our (nominally united) 60 states, with Canadian provinces sitting at rock bottom in ranks 51-60.
Then there’s politics. Oy. As our podcast guest, ex-Canadian and current AEI scholar Colin Dueck lays out in painful detail, Canadians are, for the most part, well to the left of Americans. So, most of those 10 new states (or one super state), would line up in the Democratic Party column in states and at the federal level. Yay!
Want more? You’ve got the link. I urge you to use that link and read every word. It’s an almost sure bet you will wind up far more knowledgeable about what is going on between Canada and the USA than almost anyone you know.
