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FirstLight

(14,368 posts)
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 01:28 PM Jan 8

Social Media fans hail Green Party leader in Canada who invites CA to join as a Province... (great video at link)

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/social-media-fans-hail-green-party-leader-who-invited-california-to-join-canada-b2675527.html

Social media fans hail Green Party leader who invites California to become Canadian province
Who wants to be a state? taunts Elizabeth May after Trump’s 51st state dig. Canada offers free health care, safe streets and abortion rights, she boasts

Mary Papenfuss
in San Francisco
Wednesday 08 January 2025 00:52 ES

Social media is continuing to rave about Canada’s Green Party leader who mocked Donald Trump’s lack of political knowledge in a recent speech and invited California - and Oregon and Washington - to join Canada as its newest provinces.

Elizabeth May flamed Trump at a recent press conference for his bullying, demeaning suggestion that the Canadian nation would make a “nice 51st state.”

She noted: “We do not aspire to be the 51st state ... If it was a joke, it was never funny, and it ends now.”

-snip-

“Maybe California would like to be the 11th province. How ‘bout it, California? Oregon? Washington? We’ve got geography in common,” she urged.

“This is what we’ve got for you: Free healthcare, universal, free healthcare. No more one-year-olds who suddenly fall off the Medicaid list, and their parents are on the news because they’re trying to do a GoFundMe, because they’re trying to get their daughter to a doctor,” May mocked.

“California citizens, Washington, Oregon: Safer streets here, we already have strict gun laws, and women have the right to an abortion under the universal healthcare system,” she crowed.

-snip-

Watch the whole rant at link!

She even makes a dig "go find your grandkids' history book and learn about a Parlimentarian Democracy..."
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Social Media fans hail Green Party leader in Canada who invites CA to join as a Province... (great video at link) (Original Post) FirstLight Jan 8 OP
I am here for it -- I would love to be part of Canada obamanut2012 Jan 8 #1
:) Solly Mack Jan 8 #2
I believe adding California would just about double Canada's population... Wounded Bear Jan 8 #3
California has 40 million people Canada 20 million bottomofthehill Jan 8 #7
I'm in. Basso8vb Jan 8 #4
Goes to show you their Green Party is different than the one in the US. haele Jan 8 #5
Yep... FirstLight Jan 8 #6

haele

(13,718 posts)
5. Goes to show you their Green Party is different than the one in the US.
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 01:40 PM
Jan 8

They're not spoilers in a Parliamentary system. They actually know they're in Parliament to do work.
Ours are in politics to spout leftist sounding jargon, collect money and spoil important elections for the GOP's benefit, instead of working their way through actual ground roots local politics to show their actions match their words.

Haele

FirstLight

(14,368 posts)
6. Yep...
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 01:58 PM
Jan 8

I thought the Green Party sounded cool when I was younger and then realized they were a no-show for actual issues and work.

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