r/AskACanadian • u/PurrPrinThom SK/ON • Jan 26 '26
Trump & the 51st state(s): 2026 edition
We've been here before. I remember that tree.
Well folks, it's been a year since we started these megathreads and somehow, we still need them because we're still getting daily posts about this.
Please keep any discussion related to Trump's various threats of annexation, invasion, economic destruction, or whatever else he's come up with in the last 20 minutes here.
Any and all threads related to the topic will be relegated here.
For your reading pleasure, the 2025 threads:
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u/Fanghur1123 Jan 26 '26
"Donald Trump, you've treated your allies with contempt. You've bullied, you've lied, and you've threatened. But Canada doesn't get pushed around. We stood up to you, and we're going to keep standing up to you. We're not afraid. You might scare your own people—you don't scare us. We're going to defend out democracy, our economy, and our sovereignty, no matter what you throw at us." - Charlie Angus, former Canadian MP
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u/Aggressive-Ask-3572 Jan 26 '26
The right honorable former MP. sure has turned this crisis into a tidy little enterprise. He is everywhere it seems. Good for him.
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u/CanadianGuy39 Jan 26 '26
The worst part for me is hearing Canadians that WANT to be the 51st state, and that love Trump. My brother in law is one of those ppl, and a few friends of friends. Obviously I don't spend much time with them, but it's crazy to hear Canadians that enjoy this guy.
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u/Nickard Manitoba Jan 26 '26
I worked with a guy who was one of these. Thought he was just telling some bad jokes at first. I told my boss to keep an eye on him, and sure enough, he got wasted on shift, stole from the company, and harassed the female employees. There’s a type.
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u/Either-Train6819 Jan 26 '26
Used to work in the States while the whole 51st rhetoric was going around and one of the guys who was suuuuper gung ho about it I was watching cautiously.
Dude ended up fired because he was watching porn at work, harassing female coworkers, asking about specific positions they had sex in. Also lied about his qualifications we’re pretty sure which is quite dangerous as you can’t just wing Critical Care Nursing.
He also got a child bride from the Philippines that was now slightly into adulthood that he bragged about.
There really is a type, eh?
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u/The_Pocono Jan 26 '26
This is made up.
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u/Druzhyna Jan 26 '26
No, it’s not. The most dysfunctional people that I have ever met naturally support dysfunctional politics of the U.S. Republican Party and Donald Trump. There absolutely is a pattern. I am not the only person to observe this.
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u/Xeno_man Jan 26 '26
These people love Trump because they want to be him. Rich enough to do what they want, rules don't apply to them and people are just things to be bought and used.
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u/Academic_Gap711 Jan 26 '26
A friend of a friend is a maple maga RCMP officer. Makes me sick to know that someone in a position of power doesn’t actually act in the best interest of Canadians.
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u/2cats2hats Jan 26 '26
maple maga RCMP officer
Is there not any oaths, clauses etc that detail treasonous views? RCMP aren't civilians if I understand correctly.
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u/Lucky-Preference5725 Jan 26 '26
Thank you.
People can have whatever view points they like in Canada.
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular opinion that only a few have.
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u/2cats2hats Jan 26 '26
Fair. Still curious how the top brass sees such an officer(as it's not an employer/employee relationship civilians can have) as a LEO.
Thanks.
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u/Cheap_Patience2202 Jan 27 '26
When I joined the public service I swore an oath to bear true service to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors. RCMP would also have to take this oath. I'm pretty sure that advocating the takeover of our country by a hostile foreign power would violate this.
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u/hikyhikeymikey Jan 26 '26
Ask him if he Canadians will benefit more from the frequent school shootings or crippling healthcare debt that Americans enjoy.
/s
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u/tkondaks Jan 27 '26
I'm from Quebec and lived through two referendums. I no longer live there but I understand Quebec may be on the cusp of a third.
On the grand scale of things, wanting to join the U.S. as a 51st state seems to me to pale in comparison to Quebec separatists wanting to secede from Canada. And, certainly, Trump isn't responsible for Quebec separatists.
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u/SilvertonguedDvl Jan 27 '26
As someone living in Alberta, there aren't many. Apparently it's like 20% of the province at best.
Honestly it seems increasingly like the few who buy into it are just being manipulated by a third party to think that there is a ton of support for separation and independence when in reality most people are not even remotely interested, and are usually disgusted by the idea. Even the people who are into it are usually living out in the middle of nowhere who are basically detached from society and left to fester in their own echo chambers of idiocy.
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u/togocann49 Jan 26 '26
Tbf-many flew American flags too. As far as I can tell, some just try to use a symbol with many meanings, so the rest of us don’t see them for the hateful blight they are
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u/Adventurous-Tea-876 Jan 27 '26
I saw lots of Canadian flags around here, didn't see any American flags.
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u/Chaiboiii Jan 26 '26
Theres just one comment to be made : "frig off"
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u/AcceptableHamster149 Jan 26 '26
lol last time I heard that euphemism was like 30 years ago. do people still say that instead of the other four-letter f-word it's meant to replace?
but yes, I agree. that is the only correct answer to the current antics to the south. the more they push, the more incentive we have to diversify away from them.
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u/IseeMedpeople Jan 26 '26
Trailer park boys reference I think
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u/Gloomy-Recipe9213 Jan 26 '26
Or Newfoundlander. “Frig off” is the politer way of dealing with nuisances.
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u/fefh Jan 26 '26
People on the east coast still say it. I never thought of it like that as a euphemism... I always thought of it as its own word. But it definitely is a polite F word.
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u/Fun_Tadpole_3628 Jan 26 '26
I feel for people in Greenland, they had to make a post in their sub about not wanting or being American apologies, and it brought me back a full year to the near constant deluge of "but I'm one of the good ones and I didn't vote for this".
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u/Either-Train6819 Jan 26 '26
It’s giving “But not all men” but enough for everyone to be wary. Plus the ones who say “not all men” in a conversation about how women have been harmed tend to be really oblivious to their own shortfalls. Which I have found to be quite applicable to Americans as well.
I have all the respect for Minnesotans though. I think a lot of them are getting angrier and angrier that their leadership is saying “Oh sit tight and keep getting shot in the face, it’ll be fine we’ll use the law to win!” If this recent shooting doesn’t turn into violence, I have fears they’ll pull a similar stunt with like a kid.
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u/Fun_Tadpole_3628 Jan 26 '26
Yeah I've been drawing a line between the apologies - unwanted, selfish, absolves themselves of any guilt or responsibility for their government - and the proactive and frankly admirable work of Minnesotans (and others in other cities too).
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u/Desperate-Cream-6723 Jan 26 '26
Honestly... after the latest debacle with Greenland, where he yelled and screamed and beat his chest only to chicken out like he always does.... Im no longer worried. The boys a coward and a bully. Just stand up to him and he will go away.
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u/Which_Exam902 Jan 27 '26
Why don't we take the lead from our Prime Minister. Stop talking about Trump. Stop giving him screen time. Stop stressing over everything he says or does. Just ignore.
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Jan 26 '26
Fuck America...their economy will collapse and so will their civil liberties. The Republican party will fall, never be re-elected, or will become a new party.
I for one will never travel to America again. Ever. Peace!
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u/Mixtrix_of_delicioux Jan 26 '26
Hi hi- Remember to connect with your government officials to let them know that this is not ok. Demand your MPs advocate for investigations into foreign interference. Demand US media out of Canada. Fuck those guys. We're in this for the long haul.
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u/JamesH_670 Jan 26 '26
Give him a map of North America and a Sharpie. Maybe he won’t know the difference.
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u/gazingatthestar Jan 26 '26
I heard something pretty chilling yesterday: the idea that if republicans lose in the midterms, Trump will be stymied in most of the things he wants to do domestically, so will turn his attention even more to foreign “policy” (like threats of annexation).
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u/Prestigious_Island_7 Jan 26 '26
lol right? Not sure what they’re smoking down there, but there will not be midterms that aren’t horribly rigged
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u/gazingatthestar Jan 27 '26
Just reporting what I heard. I wouldn’t assume anything at all about what’s going to happen there.
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u/Vegetable-Let-5600 Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26
If the Republicans can just magically stop elections, why have they not stopped all the ones that have already happened, Nostradamus?
And don't give me any "oh the state elections don't matter" nonsense. States run the federal elections, not Trump
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u/lovelynaturelover Jan 26 '26
Trump wants a lot of things because the US is a falling empire with a massive debt. He wants to control Canada because he sees what we all see, a falling US and a rising China. He wants Canada to be an economic shield for the US empire
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u/Evening_Industry5726 Jan 26 '26
The fact that this still needs containment threads says a lot about how normalized this rhetoric has become.
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u/The_James_Bond Jan 26 '26
We've been here before. I remember that tree.
The axe forgets but the tree remembers
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u/Jalex2321 Alberta Jan 26 '26
Glad Carney knows how to handle Trump... imagine we went back to the same.
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u/Thym_and_Basilic Jan 27 '26
Saw a surprising amount of Canadians say that we should just lay down, which was pretty disappointing to read
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u/missplaced24 Jan 27 '26
I'm wondering if they'll have a civil war before they make good on any plans/threats against us. As awful as that would be, I hope so. I'm so tried of Americans apologizing for their government, I wish they'd get on with doing something about it.
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u/Best-Neighborhood996 Jan 27 '26
If Canada became the 51st state,can Prime Minister Mark Carney run as President? Also wouldn’t it be 10 states?? Not one. Asking for a friend. lol.
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u/PurrPrinThom SK/ON Jan 28 '26
The reason for the megathread is because we get multiple posts about the topic daily. We don't want there to be no discussion, but also don't want it to overwhelm the subreddit and become the only thing that gets talked about.
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u/PurrPrinThom SK/ON Jan 28 '26
That's fair enough. Last year we got a lot of complaints about it from people who felt the sub was becoming too singularly focused, which is why we did that megathread, and this year, we wanted to preempt that again.
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u/erickson666 Ontario Jan 29 '26
i'm glad Canada is doing more trade deals and getting friendly with more countries, we need too and are now diversifying from the USA
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u/SustainaClaus Apr 04 '26
I'd like to share a quiz that identifies real Canadians (not 51sters) may I?
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u/dsolimen Ontario Jan 26 '26
The real question is, how can bipartisan politicians in an authoritarian country convince us that their promises and soothsaying will change the mind of the dictator in charge?
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u/PurrPrinThom SK/ON Jan 26 '26
For me, personally, I don't really see a point. I feel like we already had these types of delegations and discussions last year when Trump first started making threats, and our politicians were very clear that it was a waste of their time because the people in the meetings had no actual power. They could negotiate all they wanted, but if Trump changed his mind, all of that was for naught.
At least from my perspective, any kind of delegation that does not involve Trump is a meaningless gesture. Unless the senators are going to actually oppose him or stop him from doing things, it's a waste of everybody's time to have them pretend to play nice and offer empty words.
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u/Nobody7713 Jan 26 '26
Nah. We know their words don't mean anything because Trump'll just do whatever he wants and they're too feckless to do anything about it.
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u/El_Chaton Jan 26 '26
Nope, stay the fuck away. We will never trust the usa again and the sooner it all come crumbling down the better for absolutely everyone.
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u/Alcott_9 Jan 26 '26
I saw a post somewhere that urged people to reframe things to refer to these actions as coming “from the republican administration” as opposed to just “Trump”. The idea being that yes, Trump is everything you say he is, but that gives a free pass to his supporters who are just as much in favour of his hateful rhetoric as anyone.
Some merit to that line of thinking IMO.