Republicans don't want Puerto Rico or DC to become states for the same reasoning as Trumpf not demanding Mexico become the 52nd state: not enough white people. Canada, which has minorities in its 40m people, is mostly white and has abundant natural resources: "Three racialized groups alone accounted for more than 16.1% of Canada's total population. These groups are South Asians (2.6 million; 7.1 percent), Chinese (1.7 million; 4.7 percent) and Blacks (1.5 million; 4.3 percent), each with a population of more than one million." Link: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/12-581-x/2022001/sec3-eng.htm

In 2022, 48,000 Americans were killed by guns. So, why would Canadians, who suffer less than 300 gun deaths a year and enjoy universal health care, want to join our dysfunctional country?

Lastly, less Canadians are visiting the US (which will be followed by other countries), so tourism revenue in Florida, NY, California, and other states will plummet. Also, less foreign students will apply to our "prestigious" colleges.

Hopefully CBSA will ask US visitors at the POEs: "Did you vote for Trump?" "Uh-huh." "DENIED."

Trumpf is simply following orders. Putin wants NATO and the EU fractured, as well as NORAD (with Canada). The US and Canada were expected to defend the Arctic jointly. Global warming is making access to the oil and minerals underneath the ice in the Arctic and Greenland easier. The Kremlin has 13 military bases pointed towards the Arctic and in 2001 claimed it with a submersible planting a flag underneath the North Pole. With Canadians as an "enemy," will the American population and military support Canada if Russia invades the Arctic?