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Will Canada Join the US as the 51st State?

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Pierre Poilievre"Canada will never be the 51st [US] state."Mar 26, 2025

Mike Waltz"I think that the Canadian people, many of them, would love to join the United States with no tariffs, with lower taxes."Feb 10, 2025

Floridapolitics

Mark Carney"America is not Canada, and Canada never, ever will be part of America in any way, shape or form."Mar 13, 2025

ABC News

Justin Trudeau"There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States."Mar 26, 2025

MetaculusWill the U.S. annex any part of Canada before June 3, 2072?

Donald Trump"I think Canada would be much better off being a 51st state because we lose $200 billion a year with Canada, and I'm not gonna let that happen."Feb 09, 2025

yahoo!news

David Cohen"It's just not something that's going to happen."Mar 26, 2025

Politico

Anita Anand"There will be no messing with the 49th parallel [the US-Canadian border], period."Feb 08, 2025

ndtv

David EbyWe "will never sacrifice our identity or independence to any other country in the world."Jan 09, 2025

Yukon News

Doug Ford"It's [Trump's plan to annex Canada] not realistic."Feb 13, 2025

theassociatedpress

Donald Trump"The artificial line of separation [between Canada and the US] drawn many years ago will finally disappear."Mar 12, 2025

CNN

Doug Ford"Canada is not for sale and will never be the 51st [US] state."Mar 13, 2025

ABC News

Mélanie Joly"We are not going to be annexed [by the US]."

Max Boot"Barring a military blitzkrieg to seize Ottawa, the chances of Canada becoming the 51st state are approximately zero."Mar 20, 2025

thewashingtonpost

Donald Trump"Yeah, it is [a real thing]."

Marc Miller"There is no chance of us becoming the 51st [US] state."

John Bolton"If he [Donald Trump] wanted Canada — if he really wanted it — he's harmed the prospects of Canada being the 51st state by the way he's approached it."