Web bully Donald Trump, who will even quickly turn out to be president, has made it clear that he needs Canada to turn out to be the “51st state.” And whereas Trump throws round memes and casually suggests taking nations by drive—all earlier than taking workplace—authorities officers to the north and the south of the U.S. are snapping again.
Elizabeth Could, the chief of Canada’s Inexperienced Celebration, gave blue states a suggestion they’d seemingly salivate over rather than Trump taking Canada—a suggestion that features common well being care and stricter gun legal guidelines.
“We got a deal for you. You think we want to be the 51st state? Nah,” Could stated Wednesday throughout a press convention. “But maybe California would like to be the 11th province. How about it? California, Oregon, Washington?”
Portray an image of what could possibly be, Could reminded everybody that Canada has common free well being care.
“No more one-year-olds who suddenly fall off the Medicaid list and their parents are in the news because they’re trying to do a GoFundMe to get their daughter to a doctor,” she stated. “And guess what? Those gun laws that your Congress is too afraid to pass because of the National Gun lobby? We already got our strict gun laws. That’s why we have the safest streets around the world.”
Can also introduced up Canada’s proper to abortion, which has been banned or severely restricted by 19 states since a conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court docket overturned Roe v. Wade.
Taking pictures a message to the states’ governors, Could requested, “Want to put a referendum to your citizens?”
“Donald, think about it,” she added. “You could get rid of all these states that always vote Democrat.” And for good measure, Could stated Canada would even “take Bernie Sanders off [Trump’s] hands.”
Whereas Could’s Inexperienced Celebration has solely two seats out of 338 in Canada’s Parliament, different members have additionally overtly opposed Trump’s statements.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford made an analogous suggestion of shopping for Minnesota and Alaska from the U.S. following Trump’s unhinged proposal. Ford later stated his remarks have been made in jest.
Trump’s antagonism towards certainly one of our closest allies has been brewing for some time. The felon-elect tossed round threats of a 25% tariff towards Canada, and even referred to former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau because the “Governor” of “the Great State of Canada.”
Throughout America’s southern border, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had a pleasant snigger over Trump’s grand concept to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”
Standing in entrance of a map from 1607 that labeled the U.S. as “Mexican America,” Sheinbaum sarcastically introduced up Trump’s concept, quipping, “Why don’t we call it Mexican America? It sounds pretty, no?”
Sheinbaum, in addition to anybody with entry to the web or a historical past ebook, can rapidly be made conscious that the Gulf of Mexico was named almost 170 years earlier than the U.S. was based.
Within the spirit of upsetting different surrounding nations and territories, Trump has additionally made a bid for the Panama Canal and Greenland. Citing “national security” as a purpose for why he’s eyeing Greenland, Trump may be eyeing these two for the aim of commerce routes.
And Greenland, an autonomous territory throughout the Kingdom of Denmark, has nearly untouched assets used to provide electronics, to not point out billions of gallons of oil laying dormant.
With that in thoughts, Trump has made it clear that taking these lands by army drive isn’t off the desk, both.
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