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February 24, 2025
If Trump Wants Canada, Here’s How He Gets It
By Lawrence Solomon
President Trump offered Canadians the deal of a lifetime — to join the U.S. and be welcomed as equals, as full citizens with all the rights that status entails. Canadian business would have tariff-free access to the world’s largest market. Individual Canadians would instantly be better off by replacing the weak Canadian dollar with the greenback, by getting lower taxes, lower gas costs, lower housing costs, better health care, better everything.
President Trump hasn’t made so generous an offer to anyone else. Yet instead of feeling honored, and responding in a spirit of generosity, most Canadians reacted peevishly and belligerently.
Under the cumbersome Canadian constitution, it is virtually impossible for Canada to join the U.S. in one go. But Trump can acquire Canada piecemeal — and faster than anyone ever imagined — by making the following deals with two provinces instead.
First, Trump should simultaneously invite the rich conservative province of Alberta and the poor liberal province of Newfoundland & Labrador to join the U.S. Since Canada’s Supreme Court already ruled that provinces can leave Canada via a clear referendum, the people of these two provinces would quickly snap up the dream deals that Trump can offer them, especially since so many of them love Americans and have long resented being exploited by Canada’s central provinces.