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Well, consider what would happen to elections if we join the US. We'd certainly not join as one state and our parties won't just fold and disappear. The US political bus will swerve hard left by US standards with someone like AOC getting elected prez.
Reminder that the Canadian populace is about 1/10 of America's.
If in some freak alternate timeline where we actually to get absolved into the States, we 100% lose all autonomy as Canadians and our political preference would be thrown to the wayside and completely outvoted.
Total population, sure, but it's not like the states are divided by population. I'm not selling for a single state worth of representation. Electoral college is first past the post baby!
assuming Canada is a state and not a territory like Puerto Rico
you're assuming in a timeline where Canada is annexed by America, that America is still a democratic republic and not a Fascist Warmongeirng Kakistocracy
Sir or Madam, I present to you, Puerto Rico, a territory with no federal representation. may I also present to you the United Fruit Company and Nestle. or at least their model.
Canadians wouldn't have rights in the US, we'd live under a Quisling government for a hundred years or more while the territory is slowly "assimilated" into "American customs". while Corporations would pilfer the resources and workforce here at gunpoint. maybe after 80-100 years, a couple of small regions would be carved out into new states. but make no mistake, it'd be sold as a prosperous unificaiton, and the receipt would read "Military Occupation and bloody insurgency"
Jokes aside that's a scary possibility and it dovetails well with uncle Dolan's rhetoric.