• Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Doubtful we’d be allowed to be a state. A Puerto Rico scenario would probably be best case, or more likely, Afghanistan.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Exactly … we would be kept independent politically … but dependent economically … why would anyone want the expense of making us comfortable when they could just take all the wealth without the cost of governing a bunch of people.

      They want the resources … not the country.

      • grte@lemmy.caOP
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        1 year ago

        Which is basically the situation we’ve been in since NAFTA was signed.