Please President Trump, Don't Annex Canada!

Parts of central Canada might be useful, but the entire urban part is deeply leftist and should be avoided like the plague it is.

We should absolutely take British Columbia as well as central Canada, but expel Vancouver as a non-voting territory. I look forward to driving to Alaska without the snotty border agents in between.

I absolutely love watching President Trump trolling for reactions from the media. I look forward to the Canadian citizens to take back control of their country from the Marxists that overthrew their government and Canada working as friends with the United States of America once again. Let's make the world great again! So long Justin Trudeau! May the hand of justice come down hard on you!

Despite his tongue-in-cheek tone, Mr. Strom has some good suggestions about the timing of conversion of annexed Canadian territories into states -- should Canadians decide (preferably via plebiscite) that this is what they wish. But we shouldn't lean too forward of our skis, here. For PDJT, remember, this is mostly about two things: Predatory economics and national security. If we can quickly make states of the provinces west of Ontario, excluding BC, great. People I trust think the Atlantic provinces will be like New England in political terms, which doesn't make me thrilled about giving them immediate statehood. Then there are the lefty urban nationalists (Liberals, NDP, and Bloc Quebecois) populating BC, Ontario, and Quebec. Those provinces should remain territories for an extended period of time. And Quebec must be told in no uncertain terms that the rest of the states of America will not subsidize their vanity for things French the way the other provinces of Canada have done. We don't subsidize Louisiana for its French legacy, and we're sure not going to subsidize Quebec. Quebec will have to be told it can remain a self-governing French-speaking territory permanently -- we already have a majority Spanish territory in Puerto Rico, for example, so we can do it -- but it won't get preferential treatment above and beyond what we already do for our other overseas territories... With one possible exception: National security considerations in the Arctic. Of course, Quebec might decide to become and independent country or overseas territory of France, and in that case, the same security considerations will apply.

I would think twice about making parts of Canada the 51st state. For one thing, there is a strong sense of nationalism up there with some resentments towards big brother to the south - America. And we took over their national pastime - ice hockey which adds to the resentment. Great people up there, no doubt about it. And a stunningly beautiful country to go with it. But Canada's problem is that there is only one major news outlet, the CBC. The CBC is good at manipulating its voting population to align with only one line of thought (i.e., leftism) regarding Canadian politics and how things should be. Thusly, leftism flourishes among the urban centers. Consequently, Canadians tend to think and act like a herd of sheep. How else did Canada manage to make the same mistake twice and support two Trudeaus.

Just allow the provinces of Manitoba, British Columbia, Alberta, the Northwest Territories to secede from Canada and become the 51st through 54th States of the Union.

I admit, annexing Canada would simply give Liberals what they were trying to achieve with the open border.

#7 - I don't think it would be quite that simple. Let's say all of the territory making up provinces gets statehood, deferring details on state boundaries for a moment. The worst thing about this is that we'd be handing Democrats control of the US. House of Representatives for at least a couple of generations, since all of those "provincial" areas would become Congressional districts. But when it comes to the Senate, those of us who pay attention are now aware of Democrats' planned chicanery to control that body (by making states of DC and PR), so a concerted effort could be made to assure that the added states do not change the balance of power in the Senate. [PEI should not be allowed to become a state at all, just because its population (150,000) is too small -- Wyoming at 570,000 is our least populous state. PEI's territory would have to be combined with another province, with the combined province becoming a state.] Some creative tactics could make this happen. One idea I have is to divide BC into coastal and interior regions, with the coastal region becoming part of the state of Washington -- thus denying Vancouver and environs two lefty Senators of their own, as they would just be getting the two lefty nuts that already represent Washington. The interior part of BC is politically aligned with Alberta and would become part of that future state's territory.

I see now that some Canadian politician has claimed to want to annex California, Wasington and Oregon. I say let's swap them for Manitoba and Alberta, you know, the provinces that have all the wheat, gas and oil reserves. It's a win for America!

#9; I don't think not having our own seaports is such a great idea. Not worried, anyway. Never gonna happen.

I oppose adding parts of Canada for the above reasons, especially the wildly liberal parts. We should not bring any group from any part of the planet that doesn't share the majority of our values. If we're going to start fiddling with states, we should sort out our own, first. California should be split into about six states, isolating the rural interior from the cities; the two groups have diametrically opposed interests. Further, as #10 posted, the ports are an issue; the ports should federalized, along with the roads leading to them, and put the ports and roads beyond the control of California's vehicle laws.

The premise of the article is BS, with the author talking about parceling out areas of Canada, like parting out a low mileage '67 GTO found stored in a barn. How can you oppose communist China taking Taiwan or Russia defeating and absorbing the whole of Ukraine, if you take sovereign territories of Canada and elsewhere that you find attractive, economically and/or politically? By agreement, the US set up air bases in Labrador and Greenland after WWII. In '68, I believe we lost a nuke in a B52 crash at our AFB in Thule, Greenland. It wasn't as if the US didn't have access to places in Canada and Greenland of strategic importance to US and the West at large. The author references the Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase but the key word is "purchase."

I think it was a genius level troll on all the celebrities that were "leaving for Canada" if Trump were elected. There is NO ESCAPE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

What we shouldn't do with Canada is subsidize them with 200 billion dollars of OUR money!

I spent a lot of time in Canada pre-Trudeau. Glowing reports of the populace are exaggerated.

I agree with #15. Canada has some great people, but I found a lot of them rude and resentful of the US.