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Old 02-21-2019, 03:08 PM   #21
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Sell AB a 50-m band from the border to the Pacific and there might be something to discuss.
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I own a property in Montana and if it ever sold to Canada and ruined my $5 tins of Copenhagen and $15 cases of beer I would be royally pissed.
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I'll give $50 billion cash.

Can you deliver?
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So... does the Sweetgrass-Coutts Border Crossing facility turn into a sweet condo building?
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Old 02-21-2019, 03:32 PM   #27
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Old 02-21-2019, 03:35 PM   #28
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Can't we have Maine instead? I mean it looks like a piece of Canada.
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Can't we have Maine instead? I mean it looks like a piece of Canada.
We should buy Alaska instead. Then Trudeau can say he can see Russia from his kitchen window.
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The only way the US trades Montana for Quebec is if Chiarelli is running the USA.
Trade is one for one.
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Way too much for Montana.

I would rather spend it on somewhere warm like Puerto Rico. Americans don't like Puerto Rico anyway. Plus, imagine all those sweet paper towels that would come with it!

And Puerto Rican girls.
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I would rather spend it on somewhere warm like Puerto Rico.
Not sure we should spend assets for Puerto Rico when turks and Caicos is on waivers.
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Didn’t we almost end up with Turks and Caicos?
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Not sure we should spend assets for Puerto Rico when turks and Caicos is on waivers.
Sign Turks and Caicos as a free agent and acquire Puerto Rico. Then let the Canadian Empire begin!

Montserrat, you better watch your backs! Dominica too, we're coming for you.
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Montana is where Abducted in Plain Sight happened right? Hard pass, do not want, they can keep Montana and it's inhabitants. Too much face palming.
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Montana and their 1st round draft pick for Quebec.
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Didn’t we almost end up with Turks and Caicos?
There was a time, I can't recall if it was under Clark or Mulroney, that Turks and Caicos wanted to sever colonial ties with Britain but didn't want to go completely solo. They approached Canada to see if they could become a Canadian overseas territory but we spurned them. The thought at the time was that they were facing a financial and health crisis and would be a burden for Canada to pick up. Many people accused them of just wanting use our health care system. Eventually things turned around, and I think it was either Martin or Chretien who revisited it, but Turks and Caicos had turned things around and are now happy with their situation.

That is just from memory. I am sure there is a more accurate account somewhere.

Edit: Yes, it was under Paul Martin (I just looked it up). In 2004, the province of Nova Scotia voted to invite Turks and Caicos to join the province which would bypass issues of adding a new province.

But the history goes all the way back to 1917 (from Wikipedia):

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The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British overseas territory in the Caribbean. There is some support for a union with Canada; however, the islands' small economy and Canada's involvement in Haiti[clarification needed] have made this controversial. In 1917, the Prime Minister of Canada, Robert Borden first suggested that Canada annex the Turks and Caicos Islands. In 1974, Canadian New Democratic Party Member of Parliament Max Saltsman introduced a failed attempt at consolidating the islands.
The idea was brought up again in 1986 by Progressive Conservative MP Dan McKenzie, but it was rejected by his party's caucus committee on external affairs in 1987. The committee, chaired by MP David Daubney, looked at immigration, banking, health care and tourism issues in making its decision.[39]

In 2004, Conservative MP Peter Goldring visited Turks and Caicos to explore the possibility once more. He drafted a motion asking the Canadian Government to look into the issue, but his party declined, citing immigration, tourism, and economic issues.[40] However, the Canadian government does not dismiss the possibility of a future union.[40] The province of Nova Scotia voted to invite Turks and Caicos to join the province in 2004, should the islands ever become part of Canada. This would bypass the problems with admitting Turks and Caicos as a separate province.[41]

On 2 March 2009, the Ottawa Citizen ran an article on its online site reporting the interest of the Canadian government to open a deep-water port in the Caribbean that would open up "a new market for Canadian goods ... in the Caribbean and nearby Central and South America".[42] "Suppose the port, unaffordable for Caribbean countries, boosted their standard of living and bolstered hemispheric security. Suppose the port doubled as a Canadian military operations base for countries wanting help to patrol their waters and to interdict the Caribbean's robust trade in smuggled arms, drugs and people."[42]

In May 2014 Premier of Turks and Caicos Rufus Ewing visited the Canadian Parliament looking to improve its relationship with Canada, and was open to a possible "marriage" in the future.[43][44]

In the Turks and Caicos Islands, support for a "special relationship" with Canada was at 90% in the 1990s, while in 2003 support for the relationship stood at around 60%. Goldring, an MP from Edmonton, has championed the cause of integrating the Turks and Caicos Islands as a Canadian territory for security benefits, as well as increasing Canada's influence in Central and Southern America with regard to counterterrorism, trade and combating encroaching Chinese influence in several small Caribbean islands, such as St. Lucia.[42]
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Montana is where Abducted in Plain Sight happened right? Hard pass, do not want, they can keep Montana and it's inhabitants. Too much face palming.
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