Web bully Donald Trump, who can even quickly turn into president, has made it clear that he desires Canada to turn into 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 Might, the chief of Canada’s Inexperienced Occasion, 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 got a deal for you. You think we want to be the 51st state? Nah,” Might mentioned Wednesday throughout a press convention. “But maybe California would like to be the 11th province. How about it? California, Oregon, Washington?”
Portray an image of what may very well be, Might reminded everybody that Canada has common free well being care.
“No more one-year-olds who suddenly fall off the Medicaid list and their parents are in the news because they’re trying to do a GoFundMe to get their daughter to a doctor,” she mentioned. “And guess what? Those gun laws that your Congress is too afraid to pass because of the National Gun lobby? We already got our strict gun laws. That’s why we have the safest streets around the world.”
May additionally 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 Court docket overturned Roe v. Wade.
Capturing a message to the states’ governors, Might requested, “Want to put a referendum to your citizens?”
“Donald, think about it,” she added. “You could get rid of all these states that always vote Democrat.” And for good measure, Might mentioned Canada would even “take Bernie Sanders off [Trump’s] hands.”
Whereas Might’s Inexperienced Occasion has solely two seats out of 338 in Canada’s Parliament, different members have additionally overtly 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 mentioned his remarks have been made in jest.
Trump’s antagonism in opposition to one among 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 Great State of Canada.”
Throughout America’s southern border, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had a pleasant snort over Trump’s grand concept 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 concept, quipping, “Why don’t we call it Mexican America? It sounds pretty, no?”
Sheinbaum, in addition to anybody with entry to the web or a historical past guide, 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 “national security” 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 provide 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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