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  • Your question asks more about the person answering than any country. What is and isn’t a human right is debated matter many agreed upon but others are seen as archaic or political posturing. Are we talking positive and negative rights? Freedom of Contract? Right to Healthcare? A right to jury trials in civil cases? A right to selfdefense? The right to speak freely even unsavory words?

    Then you’d have to weigh one right against another. Finally you’d have to figure out if those rights are simply paper promises.




  • Realistically if we accept the idea of Canada joining the US they’d likely join as their current provinces (then states).

    This would allow Canadians to have a voice in US elections which currently have large political implications for the nation.

    I don’t see Quebec joining the US. Current Canadian law grants them protections the US wouldn’t be willing to match. They’d likely become independent.

    Despite Canadian identity being based on not being Americans there are large cultural similarities (given English structural roots).

    If it were to occur Canada would likely get some consideration like the preservation of their healthcare system (a point of national pride) and a period for other states to join in on it.

    The US would be more blue politically but I would expect catering to northern provinces given they’d have disproportionately high representation.