What Sort of 51st State Would Canada Be?
No doubt readers have seen President-elect Trump’s comments about making Canada the 51st state. On social media, Trump has joked about incorporating Canada into the U.S., with both comments and memes. In addition, he remarked in a Meet the Press interview on Dec. 8 that Canada and Mexico may as well be states given the fact that the U.S. has been subsidizing both nations to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
Of course, Trump is being Trump, and no one should take him seriously on this matter. He is a master at “trolling” and poking his contemporaries on the world stage where it hurts. His comments come in the wake of his tariff threats, which have sent politicians in my native Canada into a frenzy.
In fact, presently the reigning Liberal Party of Canada is in a state of free-fall, with yet another massive deficit tabled in Parliament. The government is expected to fall by February at this rate, if not any day now. (RELATED: A Christmas Gift For Canada: Could Trudeau Resign?)
On Dec. 16, Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland — the same woman who froze the bank accounts of trucking freedom fighters in 2022 — resigned unexpectedly after Trudeau threw her under the bus. Reacting to this, Trump jabbed at Trudeau and Canada even further, posting: “The Great State of Canada is stunned as the Finance Minister resigns, or was fired, from her position by Governor Justin Trudeau. Her behavior was totally toxic, and not at all conducive to making deals which are good for the very unhappy citizens of Canada. She will not be missed!!!”
In any event, the path to Canadian statehood is practically impossible — unless America were to take it by force — and ultimately undesirable for Americans, especially Republicans.
Canada is massive. To put it in perspective, Texas, the second largest state in the U.S., is one-third the size of Ontario, the largest province in Canada. America has almost ten times the population, but the expansive Canadian landscape would mean a lot more borders to patrol, and territory to secure. Culturally, Canada is much more foreign to American culture than many understand, and not just in French-speaking Quebec. Yes, we are all North Americans, but our customs and decorum are quite different.
On top of that, Canada would effectively be a Blue State if it were taken as a whole. Even in areas — and there are many — with right-wing strongholds, Canadians expect a number of social programs as a way of life. For example, you will not find a Conservative talking about dismantling the universal health system, and at most he may propose allowing private options.
That being said, Canada is not nearly as Liberal as the media would have you believe; Trudeau’s Liberals don’t have the popular vote, which almost always goes to the Conservatives. However, by strategically winning major urban centers, the Liberals have won enough seats to form minority governments in the last two elections. (RELATED: The Road Ahead for America and Canada)
We are not “anti-gun” in general the way that we are portrayed, and we have a strong hunting culture here. At the same time, most Canadians would be against carrying handguns in public, and it is more difficult to purchase a firearm here, and most Canadians would likely support Democrat-leaning gun policies.
Hypothetically speaking, certain provinces of Canada would make good Red States, especially Alberta and Saskatchewan, where a history of rugged individualism is more common, and the economies are almost entirely based on the energy and natural resources sectors. Ontario would be a wild card. We do have a Conservative super majority in the Provincial Parliament, but the government is hardly “right-wing” and more economically conservative while morally liberal. Quebec is basically governed by socialists, and it would be a nightmare for America to inherit the complicated nationalist sentiment of that province. The Maritime provinces, especially New Brunswick, are much less wealthy than the rest of Canada, and the welfare system is used heavily.
British Columbia is basically Canada’s California — it is breathtakingly beautiful, but Vancouver has become like San Francisco, and it seems like half the province cares more about getting stoned than anything else.
As far as the northern territories are concerned, almost no one lives there and there aren’t enough voters to have an effect on a Canadian election, let alone an American one.
All told, Canada as a single state would likely mean America would inherit a giant Blue State with similar electoral college votes to California; it would simply not be worth it, even if it were possible, and Donald Trump knows this.
Canada will not become a state any time soon.
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Kennedy Hall is the author of three books, Terror of Demons: Reclaiming Traditional Catholic Masculinity, Lockdown with the Devil, and SSPX: The Defence. He is a freelance author, audiobook narrator and host of the Kennedy Report Podcast. He is married with six children and lives in Ontario, Canada. He can be contacted through, and his work can be found at www.kennedyhall.ca.
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