US EditionMost Canadians don’t want to become the 51st state under Trump — but a third say they could be enticed, poll shows
- Half of Americans oppose Canada joining the United States as the country’s 51st state, according to an Angus Reid poll.
- Nearly two-thirds of Canadians do not trust President-elect Trump to keep his word about not using military force to incorporate Canada.
- About one-third of Canadians would support a merger with the United States if it included guarantees of full citizenship and financial asset conversion.
- Younger Canadians are more likely to believe that merging with the United States is inevitable, with 35 percent of 18 to 34-year-olds supporting this view.
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If Canada Were One Big US State, How Would US Politics Change?
President-elect Trump recently remarked Canada should be the “51st state” of the United States. Along with comments about annexing Greenland and the Panama Canal, it’s not clear if he is serious or saying off-handed things for political effect. Canadians overwhelmingly have no interest in joining the United States, but what if they did? The results on American politics would likely not be to conservatives’ liking. Key Points The United States…
“Canada, if it were the 51st American state, would become by far the most powerful in the federation”
GRANDSTAND. Taking Donald Trump's proposal to merge Canada with the United States at face value, the historian Blandine Chelini-Pont imagines, in an opinion piece in “Le Monde”, the cascading consequences that the president-elect probably did not think of.
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