Web bully Donald Trump, who may also 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 pressure—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 Social gathering, gave blue states a proposal they’d seemingly salivate over instead of Trump taking Canada—a proposal that features common well being care and stricter gun legal guidelines.
“We bought a deal for you. You suppose we wish to be the 51st state? Nah,” Could stated Wednesday throughout a press convention. “However possibly California wish to be the eleventh 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 extra one-year-olds who abruptly fall off the Medicaid record and their dad and mom are within the information as a result of they’re attempting to do a GoFundMe to get their daughter to a physician,” she stated. “And guess what? These gun legal guidelines that your Congress is just too afraid to cross due to the Nationwide Gun foyer? We already bought our strict gun legal guidelines. That’s why we now have the most secure streets around the globe.”
Might 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 Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade.
Taking pictures a message to the states’ governors, Could requested, “Wish to put a referendum to your residents?”
“Donald, give it some thought,” she added. “You might do away with all these states that at all times vote Democrat.” And for good measure, Could stated Canada would even “take Bernie Sanders off [Trump’s] palms.”
Whereas Could’s Inexperienced Social gathering has solely two seats out of 338 in Canada’s Parliament, different members have additionally brazenly opposed Trump’s statements.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford made an identical 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 in opposition to considered one of our closest allies has been brewing for some time. The felon-elect tossed round threats of a 25% tariff in opposition to Canada, and even referred to former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau because the “Governor” of “the Nice State of Canada.”
Throughout America’s southern border, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had a pleasant giggle over Trump’s grand thought 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 thought, quipping, “Why don’t we name it Mexican America? It sounds fairly, no?”
Sheinbaum, in addition to anybody with entry to the web or a historical past e-book, can shortly be made conscious that the Gulf of Mexico was named practically 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 “nationwide safety” as a cause for why he’s eyeing Greenland, Trump is also eyeing these two for the aim of commerce routes.
And Greenland, an autonomous territory inside the Kingdom of Denmark, has just about untouched sources used to supply 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 navy pressure isn’t off the desk, both.
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