What if Canada was conquered by the US?

[Lancer]

Not much different eh.

[Richelieu]

He probably would have been on the McCain ticket this year, to appeal to the repugs' right wing .

[Grandpa Troll]

I think Ming would lose all power over Asher

rah would be constantly crying as some of those folks do things with ferrets that are unspeakable in the US of A

DanQ is one of the nice ones, so he could maybe get Minister of Education, yeah I think so

I would contact RCMP and find where my Buddy Blackice went to



We would all unit, wearing a Touque and adopt one national insult, HOSER



Posthumously thank John Candy for his intel on Canada

[Thoth]

Bob and Doug would be leading the resistance.

[Dinner]

If the US had conquered Canada then they'd be much better off then they are now.

Oh, and we would have assimilated the frogs out of existence just like we did to the frogs in Louisiana.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
It would be paradise.

You realize Canada would go a long way to ensure Republicans are never elected?

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Thoth
Bob and Doug would be leading the resistance.

Merry Christmas from Bob and Doug

[Asher]

Originally posted by Oerdin
If the US had conquered Canada then they'd be much better off then they are now.

We'd have your awful healthcare system with your awful public image with your insane public debt. Better, how?

[DanS]

Playing too much Fallout 3

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Asher

You realize Canada would go a long way to ensure Republicans are never elected?

Are you sure? Try to imagine that for the past 200 years the various Canadian provinces had been American states, not colonial provinces governed by the UK or a Dominion government for about half that time, than an independent member of the British Commonwealth for the rest. Are you certain that the average Canadian voter would be as liberal as he or she is today?

One problem on the US side of such an arrangement would be how the addition of Canadian provinces as states of the Union would have upset the delicate balance between slave and free states. Had the US snatched up Canada in 1783 or 1812 surely the pressure to grant full statehood to a number of the provinces would have been significant. Would the seccession of the South have occurred earlier if the addition of Canadian states had upset the balance of power in Congress?

[Ben Kenobi]

You realize Canada would go a long way to ensure Republicans are never elected?

What makes you say that? Suppose the Revolution occurred and Benedict Arnold's army successfully captured and held Montreal?

Canada would have spent about 120 years as a French Colony, 30 as a British colony, and 220 years as a part of the United States. The west would have been explored and settled much the same as the frontier down south. British Columbia would never have been their own colony, instead they would have been American right from the start.

Given this outcome, it's unlikely that Canada's politics would be any different from the United States', and they would be considered an integral part of the US.

[Asher]

I'd suggest that Canada's climate and harsh conditions went a long way to ensuring more cooperation and "Liberal" ideas than the USA in its formative years. It's not just the British/French influence, it's the nature of surviving in Canada.

[Ben Kenobi]

One problem on the US side of such an arrangement would be how the addition of Canadian provinces as states of the Union would have upset the delicate balance between slave and free states.

The interesting thing is that there were only 4 colonies at the time. Quebec, PEI, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

It is likely if the US had successfully captured Quebec City in 1777, at the start of the rebellion, that there would have only been 3 states admitted, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Quebec, and instead of the 13 colonies, there would have been 16 states at the conclusion of the war of independence.

Likely if all the British colonies were admitted, slavery would never have survived the constitution of the US, and would have been abolished from the get go.

[Ben Kenobi]

I'd suggest that Canada's climate and harsh conditions went a long way to ensuring more cooperation and "Liberal" ideas than the USA in its formative years. It's not just the British/French influence, it's the nature of surviving in Canada.

Canada for most of it's history has been more conservative then the United States. It's only since the Quiet Revolution that this has changed.

[Ben Kenobi]

BK would be in the senate.

Too young.