A Republican state senator’s unprompted proposal for western Canadian provinces to join the U.S. is drawing sharp rebukes from liberals far and wide.
Joe Martin, (R-Oxford), wrote a letter to Canadian government officials laying out how British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba could seek admission “as full American states” if their citizens consent to it.
Sen. Martin also criticized aspects of Canadian governance in making his case.
His letter – which focused on the parts of Canada farthest from Maine – gained little attention until a British Columbia lawmaker posted online last week a critical reply.
The Maine senator’s idea came on the heels of President Trump’s recent calls for Canada to become the 51st state.
Brennan Day, who serves in British Columbia’s Legislative Assembly, blasted Martin’s letter as “reading like a recruitment brochure for a political ideology.”
Day told Martin “you are operating well outside of your lane sir, so allow me to operate well outside of mine.”
He decried Martin’s reference to “Canadian political baggage” and how the provinces becoming states would feature no “British monarchism, no bilingual federal documents and no imported bureaucracies.”
If the provinces became U.S. states, Martin also wrote that for “millions of people currently frustrated by central authority, moral decay, and bureaucratic suffocation, that reward is liberty.”
Besides broadsides from Day, liberals on Reddit came out of the woodwork to pile on Martin.
“This is my senator, sorry folks,” wrote GlassAd4132. “I voted against this sh#tbag, but this is one of the most rural and sparsely populated senate districts in the state, and we tend to elect the biggest schlongs.” It is unclear whether this was meant as a compliment.
Bienvenue au Canada!
