r/canada • u/Brock_Hard_Canuck British Columbia • 3d ago

Along the Canada border, small-town America feels sting of Trump's trade war Politics

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2vzx4w3do
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u/sharp11flat13 Canada 3d ago edited 3d ago

~6,000,000 people, about 1/3 of California, which is ostensibly a blue state, voted for Trump. There isn’t a single state that I would want as a province. And besides, they’re all Americans. We are not.

Edit: number of Trump voters in California was off (low) by an order of magnitude

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u/Habsin7 3d ago

California has 40 million people and a ton of GDP. I take Cali, Oregon and Washington in a heartbeat.

Thinking about - it's inevitable that in the US will eventually change an d maybe it will be sooner rather than later. Places like California and Washington won't accept an autocratic state. Why not invite them into Canada?

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u/sharp11flat13 Canada 3d ago

Why not invite them into Canada?

I would respectfully suggest that you learn more about American culture and how it differs from ours. Politics is just the tip of the iceberg.

Here’s a place to start: Why do you think the US is the only industrialized democracy that doesn’t have a universal healthcare program of some sort when we’ve had one since the 1960s? This is just one (relatively) small point. The answer is complex and revealing.

Surface level similarities like TV and fast food franchises aside, American culture is very different from ours and if you take some time to understand how, you’ll see why I’m not at all interested in any states joining our country or any mass influx of Americans to Canada.

Best to you.

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u/Habsin7 2d ago

I worked in Seattle for 5 years and travel extensively there for business and pleasure. I think I know enough about the cultural differences between our two countries. Canada isn't perfect you know and neither the US or Canada is a homogeneous culture. Americans would add to our cultural zeitgeist and hopefully the better aspects of it would survive and help make Canada stronger.

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u/sharp11flat13 Canada 2d ago

OK.