Maybe, instead of referring to Canada as our 51st State, we need to be referring to Alberta as our 51st State. Alberta and Saskatchewan are apparently overly frustrated with Canada over Federal policies and unfair taxation. Albertans would love to be prosperous like a US State, and the idea of receiving US Federal funding for free is hard to ignore. Alberta is fed up with Canada and Trump is offering attractive incentives. Of course, Seskatchewan is in the same boat, but is playing it a little more cautiously, waiting to see what Alberta will do.
I predict Alberta will come in at #51, and Saskatchewan at #52.
A very astute observation on your part, and a reasonable prediction too.
I'm guessing that you, like me, fully realize that Trump never actually intended for Canada to become our 51st state. Every now and then, Trump loves to "do a little trolling", as he calls it. However, Trump doesn't mindlessly troll like the lefties here on JPP commonly do; there's always a rhyme/reason to it.
In this case, Trump's "trolling" highlights the fact that Canada cannot survive on its own as an independent economy. (at least not at the standard of living that they currently enjoy, because their current standard of living depends upon mooching off of OUR economy... Notice how they're now trying to buddy up to the EU, looking for someone else to mooch off of? I digress.) Trump's point with his "trolling" is that, if Canada's economy depends upon mooching off of OUR economy, then they might as well become a US state (ergo, the jabs about "Governor Trudeau", "51st State", etc).
Additionally, and more importantly, Trump doesn't want to renew the USMCA agreement (or even to "re-negotiate" it); he ultimately wants to have separate bilateral trade agreements with each nation, agreements that are much easier to enforce and are much more beneficial to the USA. Sooooo, what better way to get Canada to ditch the USMCA on their own accord than to get under their skin so much that they willingly remove themselves from it to their own detriment? That's what Canada is stupidly (for them) going to do, especially under Carney's leftist TDS leadership.
The next layer of this overall development, as you've already noted here in your OP, is that both Alberta and Saskatchewan are becoming increasingly frustrated with Canada's destructive leftist leadership, and the leftists' current temper tantrum over Trump's "trolling" will only add fuel to that fire. Thus, it would be very attractive for both of them to secede from Canada and become US states, and such a move would actually benefit us also.
So yes, with regard to your prediction, it would probably be Alberta leading the way as #51 and then Saskatchewan following their lead as #52.
