A referendum probably fails, but the rest of Canada has to stop preventing them from drilling for oil. I've said for 20 years that it makes no sense to just leave the cash sitting in the ground when it can be drilled safely and without much of an environmental footprint.
It can still happen. Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have been stepchildren to Ottawa for generations.
The US can't even get Puerto Rico, a part of the US, to be a state of the US. How are they going to get Alberta in as a state?
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Kind of a fair question but not worded well. The US as a whole does not want Puerto Rico to be a state. Democrats did, because it would help their party. Same with DC. With all of the laws involved in actually forming a state, both parties would have to agree to do it. The most likely way would be to form TWO states at the same time, one red and one blue. But, even then the total representation would have to work out to the point that neither side loses or it doesn't get done. There is unlikely to be a 51st state anytime soon. But, territories are another issue. Republicans will never allow another blue state to form and vice versa.
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Interesting concept but I doubt it will obtain serious legs. Canucks overall seem to really like being Canadians.
Puerto Rico is way the hell out there in the Caribbean with several significantly inhabited islands between it and the USA. Technically it should be part of South America, maybe Venezuela, instead of North America. I don't see it as a U.S. state. And so far, for the most part, neither does Puerto Rico.
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