WTH Canada Would Be a Terrible 51st State. Colin Dueck Explains

Canada’s economy is in the toilet, has an electorate that is
overwhelmingly left wing, and a healthcare system that encourages
physician assisted suicide over basic treatment. Canada’s
systemic problems have meant that Canadian voters were slowly
starting to wake up, and were on track to deliver a blow-out for
the conservative party in the next elections. But while Trump’s
tariff threats have been omnipresent, his threat to make Canada
the “51st state” rallied Canadians around the flag and around the
governing Liberal Party. How has Trump’s rhetoric hurt
conservative chances of victory? And why would Canada make a
terrible 51st state?


Colin Dueck is a nonresident senior fellow at the American
Enterprise Institute and a professor in the Schar School of
Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is also a
senior nonresident fellow at the Foreign Policy Research
Institute and has served as a foreign policy adviser on several
Republican presidential campaigns. Colin is the author of four
books on American foreign policy and national security and the
AEI report True North: Canadian Politics, the Tory Alternative,
and the United States.


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