What is a Canadian-Should we become AmeriCans?President of the USA
Donald J Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President
I am a former elected representative from Ontario Canada and am keenly interested in knowing and learning more regarding your proposal of annexing Canada to become the 51st State.
As you can appreciate, your proposal has caused a significant stir and much commentary from the Canadian political establishment. It has also created some confusion and a stirring of national sentiment which has been absent for many decades.
Before either rejecting or supporting your proposal for annexing Canada far more details are required in order to evaluate the merits.
I believe your proposal would have great appeal to the majority of Canadians if the following were known and enunciated;
1. Not the 51st state, but at a minimum each existing Canadian province be granted statehood. Making at a minimum sixty (60) states. It would also be valuable to sub-divide each of the following provinces, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and BC into smaller states. To create 65 states
2. The 3 Canadian territories are also recognized as Territorial governments under the annexation proposals.
3. Each of the new states (former provinces) be required to have a Bi-cameral legislature and elect 2 senators to the USA congress.
4. The Current congressional districts of approximately 750,000 be retained for the new Canadian states. The new states with less than this population would still have one congressional district. This would create approximately 55 new congressional districts.
5. Each province be admitted to the Union through a referendum.
6. The establishment of a Bilateral commission with equal representation from each nation to create a report with recommendations on finalizing the terms of Union.
Canada has a rich and proud heritage and culture that remains intact even though it has been undermined for many decades by our political establishment. Any annexation proposal ought to recognize this unique and distinct culture and also seek to mitigate further undermining or diminishment of the Canadian identity.
I trust the above is helpful and I look forward to further public discourse on this important and unprecedented proposal.
Respectfully
Randy Hillier
Former MPP
Lanark, Frontenac & Kingston
