Dear Editor
The very suggestion is the old corporate real estate scam of low-balling a coveted property with the intent of scooping it up cheap and making huge profits. To suggest our prime minister is a governor does not just eliminate the value of our head of state it suggests internationally our government is insignificant in comparison to the strengths of our Make America Great Again (MAGA) neighbours. There is no generosity in Trumps suggestion that we become a subservient acquisition of his regime.
Forty million Canadians getting representation as one U.S .state would give us only two senators and around 57 representatives in the lower house of congress based on population plus one governor to rule the entire country while suddenly increasing the population of the United States by 12 per cent. So, this is a staggeringly insulting, intentional suggestion. The idea of Canada becoming one single state is a smoking dream deal for a trumped-up real estate investor who has gone bankrupt several times.
More palatable would be a suggestion of a power-sharing agreement and an offer of multiple Canadian states. If based on population alone compared to the United States it would mean representation in congress of 16 senators still 57 representatives but eight governors all elected by Canadians. Based on 10 provinces and three territories becoming states, that would mean 26 senators and 13 governors. Considering that the acquisition of Canada would more than double the land mass of the United States, then if the Canadian land mass was divided into equivalent-sized states, we would have more than 50 states and a majority of the senate seats with the voting ability to set a new path for the United States despite the current regime.
Let’s not forget that Canada is not the only acquisition Trump has his greedy eyes set on. There is also Greenland, Panama, and the Gaza Strip, which he has consistently admitted to coveting, while trying to blackmail Ukraine into giving up their natural resources. These are not offers where equal value would be exchanged or human rights considered. These are threatened cold-hearted real estate and natural resource acquisitions complete with ethnic cleansing.
I have no problems rubbing shoulders with Greenlanders, Palestinians, Panamanians or Ukrainians and I don’t think that many people in the Western world do. They’re not much different than us. Most of them, who aren’t psychopaths, love their families and just want to live in peace with enough prosperity to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads.
So, a more palatable deal to make a much greater United States would be to offer Canada 50 states, Greenland 10, Gaza five, Panama seven and include Ukraine with another 50 states making 122 states with full representation in the U.S. Congress. That would solve a lot of existing world problems like tariffs and the intentional slaughter in two existing nasty wars.
Greg Chatterson
Abernethy
