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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) [View all]

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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