New York State Sen. Liz Krueger (D) suggested that several states secede from the Union and join Canada to resist the incoming Trump administration.
“It’s not unreasonable to think outside of the box,” Krueger told Politico.
The state senator explained to City & State New York earlier this year that New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont could combine to become a “great new province as the southeast province of Canada.”
She noted that “Canada has basically said, “’Yeah, we’re not letting you all in if he wins.’ As individuals, they basically made it clear. But that’s why I thought, ‘Oh, why do I have to leave this country? I love this country, and if Trump wins a second term, it’s not actually my fault or people in New York.'”
“So I thought I would suggest to Canada that instead of us all trying to illegally cross the border at night without them noticing, which is pretty hard because there’s a lot of us, that they should instead agree to let us be the southeast province, a new province of Canada, and I offered, even though I hadn’t gotten agreement from other states yet, that I thought New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, would combine and be a great new province as the southeast province of Canada,” Krueger said.
“We have land bridges. We have the Peace Bridge from Buffalo. Basically everybody in these states are progressive Democrats. We would fit in pretty well with the political philosophy of at least most of the Canadian elected officials,” she added. “I propose that this could be an option, and I got back some unofficial responses and heard this is probably sellable in Ottawa, and look, if we were Europe, in the length of time we’ve been a nation, for Canada, if we were European countries, our borders would have moved around 20 times by now, right?”
