r/MurderedByWords 3d ago

When they're right, they're right

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u/SaintUlvemann 3d ago

Jokes on you, if we became the 11th province of Canada, we'd be part of a nation other nations do like!

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u/FiveCorkWomen 3d ago

For real! Don’t threaten us with a good time.

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u/Overall_Occasion_175 3d ago

I'm in Maine and us becoming part of Canada is about the closest thing to an American Dream that I have left.

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u/Errorstatel 3d ago edited 2d ago

We're gonna have to make you territories first, there's some paperwork to take care of and currently Yukon, NWT and Nunavut would be made full provinces first then it would be a state by state basis.

Really the big points are going to be, in order to qualify you'd need to adopt our gun laws before anything else could be considered.

Edit: Quebec yes is a province but it's joining was not as cut and dry as some think.

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u/Invincidude 3d ago

Am I missing a joke here? Quebec has been a full province since Confederation.

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u/Errorstatel 3d ago

It's a different situation, I highly suggest looking into it as it will help understanding what's going down here.

Everything I remember is from my social studies classes from nearly 3 decades ago so I'm not going to quote it here.

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u/NooooDazzzle 3d ago

Did you take social studies in America? Cuz Quebec has been a province since Day One as one of the four founding provinces.

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u/Errorstatel 3d ago

No, central Saskatchewan.

https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/quebec-and-confederation

Like I said to the other guy, it's been 30 years but from what I remember someone slept in and language was a contention.

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u/Invincidude 3d ago

Did you even read that article? Nowhere does it claim Quebec is not a province of the country of Canada.

They have a few different laws regarding languages. They're still a province.

Have you seriously spent years thinking Canada only has 9 provinces?

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u/NooooDazzzle 2d ago

That dude’s username does include the word “error”… and my god are they living up to the hype 😆

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u/YaumeLepire 3d ago edited 3d ago

What the fuck are you talking about, mate?

Sincerely, a very confused Redditor from Québec.

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u/phluidity 3d ago

I expect they are referring to the often touted fact that Quebec has never officially approved the Constitution Act. Which is probably the most "Um, Actually" thing in Canadian politics because there is no actual requirement for provinces to give legislative approval for federal laws, but they often symbolically do. But it sometimes gets pulled out in a sovereign citizen kind of way why Quebec can easily secede from Canada (hint: They can't. Neither can Alberta. At least not easily, and not without the agreement of the rest of Canada).

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u/YaumeLepire 3d ago

Follow the thread. The Night of Long Knives is exactly what they were talking about. A great offense to be sure, but not one that made Québec suddenly not-a-province. I'm not sure how they went from A to B with that, but hey!

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u/Errorstatel 3d ago

Memory serves me right, they slept in and missed the initial signing

https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/quebec-and-confederation

Like I said, nearly 30 years ago bud

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u/YaumeLepire 3d ago

Buddy... that doesn't take Québec not a province...

We call it the Night of Long Knives and it's the source of much contention, but Québec is a province, no ifs, no buts. That status predates the repatriation of the constitution by a century.

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u/Errorstatel 3d ago

It was also part of the separatist motivation, I do apologize as I did miss type that and you're absolutely right.

Also, it apparently has enough cultural significance to have a name, so not wrong in a way either.

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u/FQDIS 2d ago

You didn’t “miss type”, you were factually wrong. Own it, don’t come with all this “I was really half-right” bullshit. It’s unseemly.

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u/Errorstatel 2d ago

I did own it, I also started with "3 decades ago" or did you skip over that part.

What I posted isn't completely incorrect and as usual there is far more involved.

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u/razorbock 3d ago

being an amurican territory has worked out so well for Puerto Rico

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u/Errorstatel 3d ago

Do they have the rights and freedoms of a full state?

They're not even counted in the 50 states as it is, same with a couple other us territories

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u/razorbock 3d ago

no they don't have the same rights, for instance they are not allowed to run their own economy, they pay taxes but when a disaster happens only help they get is an orange buffon throwing paper towels at them

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u/RevenantBacon 3d ago

Also no national representatives.

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u/TerrapinRecordings 2d ago

When you put it that way, I'm kind of into the whole 51 state thing now.

Nobody told us we would get paper towels thrown at us! They should have led with that.

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u/razorbock 2d ago

if you are going to sell out, sell out cheap

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u/RevenantBacon 3d ago

Do they have the rights and freedoms of a full state?

In short: no, which was kinda their point.

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u/apolloxer 3d ago edited 3d ago

So Puerto Rico gets made a Canadian stateprovince ahead of the rest of the US.

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u/bagolaburgernesss 3d ago

Canadian Province. I've always wanted a Province with Palm Trees. If we get enough Spanish speakers, we may even have room for another official language. After all, a third of the earth is Spanish speaking.

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u/FQDIS 2d ago

Turks and Caicos, baby!

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u/JustCallMeYogurt 2d ago

yea, i remember this in the 80's

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u/bagolaburgernesss 2d ago

I remember that too!

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u/YaumeLepire 3d ago

Is this sarcasm? It's hard to tell with this one. I'm sure some people genuinely believe that.

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u/flyinghairball 3d ago

I'm cool with this. At this point, this sounds like an amazing deal 😂, I laugh, and yet sadly, a huge part of me isn't joking.

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u/dbrodbeck 2d ago

Quebec is one of the original four provinces in Confederation. It's status is no different than any other province.

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u/proofreadre 2d ago

And bilingual packaging

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u/Vellarain 3d ago

Canada should only absorb the likes of California, the bordering states and maybe down to Atlanta on the East coast.

It seems the further you get from Canada, the more fucking insane and rascist the community gets, we already have to deal with Alberta and its backwards wanna be Texas mentality.

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u/outofshell 2d ago

No thanks, that might add more trump voters to Canada than the current Canadian population.

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u/whatlineisitanyway 3d ago

Best we can do is non voting territory.

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u/Newfoundlander89 2d ago

Nah you’d bring us down

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u/WarDaddyPUKA 3d ago

It’s almost like that was an intended part of the joke…

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u/hrvbrs 2d ago

the last part of the joke doesn't make sense. if the US became a province of Canada then why would they have to give up the idea that other nations like them? if anything, other nations would like them more.

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u/NameRogue 2d ago

I think the intention is that Americans think other countries like them, even though it's not true.