RockyRoadTravel Posted August 1 Posted August 1 MAGA would freak out at the change of representation in the House of Representatives and Senate. Canada is geographically larger than the USA and has a population that is larger than the combined populations of North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Nebraska, Mississippi, Kansas, Arkansas, Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Louisiana and Alabama combined. There are 10 provinces and 3 three territories, that's 26 Senators and 53 House seats. The existing 50 States would have only 382 House seats, not the current 435. Anyone think that Montana, Idaho, Nebraska, Mississippi, Kansas, Arkansas, Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Louisiana and Alabama will be happy giving up House seats to the great "liberal" north. In the Senate only two provinces would be reliably conservative, and maybe not even crazy MAGA, more in line with "establishment" Republicans. The rest would likely be liberal, or maybe even a few from the left. With the current Senate that'd be a change to 57 caucusing with the GOP and 69 caucusing with the Democrats. With the House, the split would likely be 212 caucusing with the GOP and 228 with the Democrats. The only party that benefits from Canada joining the USA is the Democrats. A more likely scenario is that there are a few States who give up on the MAGA chaos for the sake of chaos and opt to join Canada. vinapu, stevenkesslar and lookin 3 Quote
Members stevenkesslar Posted August 1 Members Posted August 1 45 minutes ago, RockyRoadTravel said: I get your point. But I'm not sure it works that way. Tariffs lead to inflation. And I'm not sure if that part of Trump inflates anymore. 😨 Quote
RockyRoadTravel Posted Tuesday at 05:34 PM Author Posted Tuesday at 05:34 PM Those Canadians, they just had a national election in April. Total spending by all of the national parties for the entire election campaign - $40 million dollars. Campaign finance laws over corporate and union donations. Imagine. Estimated cost of the upcoming Senate race in North Carolina - $1 billion dollars. Electing one Judge to the Wisconsin State Supreme Court - $100 million dollars. How could they not want to swim in the cesspool of corporate donations (corporations are people) that this Supreme Court has unleashed on America? lookin 1 Quote
RockyRoadTravel Posted 4 hours ago Author Posted 4 hours ago Another reason not to become the 51st, 52nd, 53rd ... 63rd State. A boring technical process, that's what drawing electoral boundaries should be. Gerrymandering, basically a non-issue in Canada. Canada has an independent federal Electoral Commission that draws the electoral boundaries based on geographic integrity, population and representing communities. They then hold public hearings to review and get comments on the draft boundaries before they're finalized. No provinces ever loss political representation, all provinces which are growing more than the national average will get extra seats (BC, Alberta and Ontario). To get on the voters list, it's a check mark on your annual income tax form. Boring. Efficient. Simple. Transparent. No chaos. No TACOS https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=cir/red&document=index&lang=e stevenkesslar 1 Quote
