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Canada waiting for US economy to implode enough to make America 11th province (www.thebeaverton.com)

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OTTAWA – With the stock market plunged into chaos by U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, Canadians have decided to simply wait out America’s forthcoming economic collapse and then buy the nation on the cheap.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think America is better not calling canada an entire state

[–] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Oh for sure, its such a bad joke it doesn't even swing back to being funny.

At the rate he's tanking things over there though, Canada might be able to buy a fair amount of territory once the guillotines come out though.