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It’s time for Scotland to find a new home in Canada

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Re: It’s time for Scotland to find a new home in Canada

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With the prospect of Calexit, I would definitely consider having California join Canada. Preexisting trade deals, membership in NATO and NAFTA, and a country used to bilingual culture would all be a great fit for us.

Except Californian population is larger than Canada's. This would be terrible for those already Canadian.

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Re: It’s time for Scotland to find a new home in Canada

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With the prospect of Calexit, I would definitely consider having California join Canada. Preexisting trade deals, membership in NATO and NAFTA, and a country used to bilingual culture would all be a great fit for us.

Except Californian population is larger than Canada's. This would be terrible for those already Canadian.

Nah; I'm a Canadian in California. It'd be pretty great.

Re: It’s time for Scotland to find a new home in Canada

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With the prospect of Calexit, I would definitely consider having California join Canada. Preexisting trade deals, membership in NATO and NAFTA, and a country used to bilingual culture would all be a great fit for us.

Calexit will of course never happen. Any secession attempt would automatically lead to yet another civil war. California would be crushed.

Re: It’s time for Scotland to find a new home in Canada

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With the prospect of Calexit, I would definitely consider having California join Canada. Preexisting trade deals, membership in NATO and NAFTA, and a country used to bilingual culture would all be a great fit for us.

Canada can be the great 21st century empire, composed entirely of liberal breakaway states fleeing the alt-right.

Re: It’s time for Scotland to find a new home in Canada

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Makes more sense for Scotland to join Ireland & Northern Ireland in a gaelic confederation.

Or Scandinavia? Makes more sense geographically, at least.

No more than Denmark - problem is not all of Scotland identifies as Scandinavian, they're more often Gaelic-identifying than Norse: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16050269

Re: It’s time for Scotland to find a new home in Canada

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With the prospect of Calexit, I would definitely consider having California join Canada. Preexisting trade deals, membership in NATO and NAFTA, and a country used to bilingual culture would all be a great fit for us.

Calexit will of course never happen. Any secession attempt would automatically lead to yet another civil war. California would be crushed.

That doesn't seem obvious to me. There could be a negotiated settlement of California's material and financial value. Consider the coalition of Democrats who sympathize with Californians, and Republicans who get to remove a decisive electoral block. The real thing keeping it from happening is Californians don't want it.

Re: It’s time for Scotland to find a new home in Canada

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With the prospect of Calexit, I would definitely consider having California join Canada. Preexisting trade deals, membership in NATO and NAFTA, and a country used to bilingual culture would all be a great fit for us.

Calexit scares me because it's effectively abandoning the country; California can survive much more than the rest of the country can. It might be unfair to place that burden on California, sure, but it seem indisputable that leaving would destabilize the remaining United States in many ways - which won't be good for either Californians or anyone else. What's to stop New York, for instance, from also leaving once it r…

California's government is barely capable of keeping the state running even with federal assistance...

Re: It’s time for Scotland to find a new home in Canada

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Calexit scares me because it's effectively abandoning the country; California can survive much more than the rest of the country can. It might be unfair to place that burden on California, sure, but it seem indisputable that leaving would destabilize the remaining United States in many ways - which won't be good for either Californians or anyone else. What's to stop New York, for instance, from also leaving once it r…

California's government is barely capable of keeping the state running even with federal assistance...

California's government has had no trouble keeping the state running, even with the active harm done by a the net federal extraction of wealth from the state, since the supermajority budget requirement which prevented effective governance was removed.
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