Four States Could Secede From US and Join Canada to Avoid Trump--Democrat

[Disaffected]

114. Sure, Quebec would remain Quebec (at least for a while).

The issue they would likely have is that the proportion of Francophones in the new Canada would be much less than one half of what it is now. Quebec, and the other existing provinces for that matter, would therefore loose a great deal of political clout and, as a result, Quebec's language status would be threatened, at least in their eyes where such concerns govern a good deal of Quebec society.

An example would be the status of French as an official language of Canada. With the inclusion of California for example, there would likely be more Spanish speaking folks in the country than French. What to do then? Make Spanish an official language or remove French as an official language?? The bottom line is that such matters which are relatively inconsequential in the US are very much more important in Canada and especially so Quebec. Hell, Quebec almost split from Canada a few years ago and, as usual, preservation of the French language in Quebec was one of their most pressing underlying concerns.

BTW, if Washington, California, Oregon and Nevada (why Nevada?) were to join Canada, I would expect they would join as separate provinces. Same for the New England states.

Anyhow, fun to speculate about but it ain't never gonna happen...