America's future expansion

I was thinking. How would you, U.S. citizens, react if the provinces of Canada wanted to join the Union as 10 supplemental states?

Off course, with full integration of militaries, 20 U.S. Senators, and congressmen for each new states proportional to it's populations (which would mean an increase of 10% of representatives in the Lower House).

Hmm.. I guess the hypothetical State of Quebec would want to have it's official language stay the French one.

And.. to think of it, the federal tax set in the U.S. would be applied to those new states, but any excessive taxes actually implimented in each provinces would be transferred to state authority.

General healthcare would become fully state-controlled one in the new states, independant from one to another.

Overall, I am sure the whole new unified 60 states would get a lot out of it. More unified secured frontiers, a lot of cheap natural ressources for U.S.'s industries, business opportunities for both of our countries without having to go trough NAFTA.

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Oh dear Gods!!! Cikomyr, don't give them any ideas! We want them to think that we're a bunch of dog-sledding igloo building beatniks, then they'll ignore us

If we joined the union

1) Equalization payments between provinces would be gone. This would mean billions in lost funding for the maritime provinces, Quebec and Manitoba. Alberta, Ontario and BC would be rolling in the dough.

2) Healthcare costs would skyrocket as we would now have private insurance companies playing the middleman between doctors and patients. Your wait time at the hospital might not be as long but you might have to take out a second mortgage on your house to pay for an operation if the company decided that your need to live was hurting their need for profits. If not covered by your employer, best case scenario you'd be paying hundreds of dollars a month in health care premiums.

3) We would no longer be able to use the word "eh" in conversation or wear "toques" as the name would be forcibly changed to "hat"

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2) Healthcare costs would skyrocket as we would now have private insurance companies playing the middleman between doctors and patients. Your wait time at the hospital might not be as long but you might have to take out a second mortgage on your house to pay for an operation if the company decided that your need to live was hurting their need for profits. If not covered by your employer, best case scenario you'd be paying hundreds of dollars a month in health care premiums.

that is a valid concern. However, if such union was to happens, I am sure some sort of dispensation would be allowed for the new States, allowing both our social healthcare systeme (however, I think it would become fully state-administrated), without outlawing private insurances for quicker health service.

1) Equalization payments between provinces would be gone. This would mean billions in lost funding for the maritime provinces, Quebec and Manitoba. Alberta, Ontario and BC would be rolling in the dough.

On the other hand, the maritimes and Quebec would suffer no more from the US's protectionism when selling their goods, and currency fluctuation would be a problem of the past.

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3) We would no longer be able to use the word "eh" in conversation or wear "toques" as the name would be forcibly changed to "hat"

You haven't been to Wisconsin, Minnesota, or da UP, have ya? We got plenty of "eh's" to go around in those necks of the woods.

As for "toques", that's out of the question!

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