r/Republican • u/M_i_c_K Conservative 🇺🇲 • 1d ago

'Shark Tank’ star Kevin O'Leary says half of Canadians favor Trump's proposal for Canada to join the US Discussion

https://nypost.com/2024/12/26/us-news/shark-tank-star-kevin-oleary-says-half-of-canadians-favor-trumps-proposal-for-canada-to-join-the-us/
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u/ninjay209 1d ago

Why even bother with this nonsense. It will never happen, let’s quit wasting time thinking about it.

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u/MAHwhat 1d ago

Also, how about real science and not just a dude throwing out fictitious numbers. Why is the Republican Party all of a sudden imperialistic?

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u/Daneosaurus 1d ago

Always has been

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u/Winstons33 1d ago

Yeah, who needs big, ambitious ideas that might succeed in changing the world?

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u/7-car-pileup 1d ago

Not saying you’re wrong, but how would this change the world?

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u/Tater72 23h ago

One way would be to use US resources to create a northern passage for shipping. Now that’s things a a bit warmer combined with US resources this could be vital

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/MAHwhat 1d ago

Land value? Sovereignty is no game or real estate deal 😂

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u/BigBeefy22 21h ago

Let us Canadians dream.

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u/Gooble211 1d ago

Why is all the talk about making Canada the 51st state? It seems more sensible to convert the provinces into states. So it would be ten new states.

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u/LearningHowToPlay 1d ago

1 state >>> less bargaining power in the Congress and government. The Republic is trying to gain power not lose it from this proposal.

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u/MAHwhat 1d ago

So just include Canada but fuck them over? Sounds convincing

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u/Gooble211 1d ago edited 17h ago

What are you suggesting might happen?

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I'm not dunking on you. I'm interested in knowing what negative things you think may happen if the provinces are turned into states.

FWIW, another thing that's been talked about over the years is individual provinces seceding from Canada to join the US, particularly the western ones.

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u/M_i_c_K Conservative 🇺🇲 1d ago

There's a thought... 😁

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u/woman-ina-mansworld 21h ago

70 stars will fit on our flag, or 50 stars and 10 maple leaves. I’ll work on a design, but can’t have one state because it would be blue

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u/Maleficent-Flower913 1d ago

Who cares what morons say. Oh right.... This is r/republican

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u/Lord_Gibby 13m ago

I really don’t get why there’s so many downvotes happening here right now.

Would it be a bad thing if Canada joined America?

If a majority of Canadians polled actually would like to join America shouldn’t we accept them?

We conservatives really shouldn’t be all scared of expanding our country, no I don’t think DC should be its own state.

But Canada? Sure that’s at least 4 if not more states with both conservative and liberal citizens.

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u/AmericanPeach19 17h ago

As someone who voted for Trump 3x…why? Why? Why? Why….we have much bigger fish to fry.

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u/LearningHowToPlay 1d ago

i've asked my canadian relatives in vancouver and they said they don't mind at all. things are pretty bad in canada right >>> high tax high inflation literally no jobs for graduates and illegals + junkies all over the places. it was as bad as the liberal states in US, if not worse.

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u/ApathyofUSA 1d ago

5 Montreal friends from college all think it would be awesome to be Americans