man your non politics videos are getting spread crazy. talking to a random person on an unrelated discord server, the first thing he asked when i said i was canadian was "do you watch jj?" also from working in a grocery store, i quite literally have people recommend your videos to me or to a customer in my line/serving once every month or two. and i never hear people recommending other youtubers by word of mouth. Your content has never felt stale, never imagined id see you talking about a whatifalthist video!

I didn’t realize the Handmaid’s Tale author was Canadian. Imagine if an American wrote a book about Canada falling into some dystopian postmodernist anarchy and frightened Canadians fleeing to Michigan lol

0:55 (Scenario #1: Separatism) 17:05 (Scenario # 2: Tyranny) 20:20 (Scenario # 3: Statehood)

We had some Canadian citizens who joined the US Army when I was in Germany many years ago when I asked them why they had joined the US Army their answer was "because there was nothing to do in Canada." I suspect that situation still exists today in the US Army.

JJ ur helping fuel a newfound interest in canadian history and politics (as a canadian myself in ottawa) maybe its just one of my adhd fixations but either way, thank you for the interesting and informative videos :)

I'm Canadian and have never found our politics all that interesting, but man your videos just hook me and teach me a lot of what issues are present right under my nose. Thank you for your work!

The prospect of statehood is honestly more palatable than the route the country is headed

As a non seperatist french canadian who lived outside of Quebec I always had difficulty defining what Canadian culture was. I think that is in great part because culture is tied to language and the 30 million anglo canadians are surrounded by 330 million Anglos from the US. The sheer force of American culture has a deeper penetration in English Canada has it gas in Quebec. Quebec still outputs more movies and music than all the rest of Canada combined and a lot of our shared culture is based around this. This is quickly disappearing and I doubt there will be much seperatism in Quebec 50 years from now.

I'm curious how you might see Canada translated into states. Would the provinces just become large states on their own; would they be split up into smaller states, etc.? What do you think?

Speaking as an American I look forward to Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba becoming our 51st, 52nd, and 53rd states.

US-Canada merger is a fascinating topic. One thing I can't decide is which version would be more likely: Canada joining as 1 US state or each province joining individually. The latter would give Canadians more power in the US system due to the Senate, but would erase the very idea of Canada as anything but a historical region. The former would preserve Canada as a unified entity, but would badly limit its power in the Senate (only 2 per state) and the provinces would lose most of their political relevance. Of course some hybrid arrangement is possible, but there are too many options to explore.

As an American I love being subscribed to your channel to hear opinions from another perspective and gain insights into Canadian culture. I’m a huge fan of yours JJ

I honestly don't know how I started watching JJ. I'm from texas, and as much as i would love to leave this god awful heat and go to a different yet similar country, I've never gone out of my way to look up facts or history about Canada. Now I look forward to JJ's videos, and thoroughly enjoy them all. He's just a little awkward, but a whole lot of informative and entertaining. Plus great editing. seriously, fantastic editing and greatly researched and well thought out videos. Keep it goin JJ, it somehow works amazingly.

I live in southeast Michigan, USA and we have a lot of Canadians and relations with them here. Even we think of Quebec as the other Canadians. I find this hilarious because in school we usually learn the Quebec dialect of French and not the European version.

I think a union between the USA and Canada could be in the economic interest of both parties. I do wonder if an American version of the E.U. would be preferable (pragmatically) to Canada joining the United States. Both parties could retain their own national identity but the system would allow for greater cooperation and integration.

Soo for anyone unfamiliar, the reason the US has 2 layers of government is because the 10th amendment that states anything not explicitly enumerated to the federal government in the constitution is the states' jurisdiction. It should mean the states and federal government are doing different things, but naturally the federal government has decided *literally everything* falls under the interstate commerce clause because money.

Hey JJ, Newfoundlander here! Massive thing with me and my friends that is never spoken about by people outside of NL is the overall mismanagement of newfoundland since out totally not rigged referendum to join Canada is the fact that the Canadian Government has literally ignored our plentiful resources and overall strategic area for the fact that we were illegally annexed just to prevent us possibly joining the United States.

I say this as a Quebecer, every province should try and milk as much as they can out of the Canadian constitution in terms of autonomy.

Hey JJ - I appreciate how you presnet ideas about possibilities as hypotheses rather than as conspiracies, telling folks who might otherwise be too prone to believe one thing or another, hat the future is fluid and subject to many variables.

It's just great to see such thoughtful videos make it on KZfaq

Very interesting to see your take on the same topic as my video. There were a lot of good points I hadn't thought of, and a lot of this stuff I honestly didn't know since I'm not a Canada expert. Alternately, since you helped me write the other video this seems almost like your ability to propose the opposing argument haha. The day of the rake will come....or maybe not.

JJ: This was a great, researched video about this topic. I really appreciated the pragmatic, and didn’t take such a dystopian view of the future. 👏

One common problem I see across the board in the media when it comes to characterizing statistical information is particularly on display here. While I find your videos very enlightening and thoughtful on the whole, you've unintentionally illustrated a flaw in thinking that I think most people fall prey to when trying to characterize statistics that fall in the range of about 10-25%. Within the space of a few minutes, you characterize the less than 20% province-primary identification as--I believe the term you used was "minuscule" while in nearly the same breath you use the 25% federal funding for healthcare as evidence that Canada's system is in fact rather centralized, and then reverse again, dismissing separatist sentiments as being "in the 20s at best". People simply don't know how to think about these numbers, leading often to self-serving conclusions depending upon the position the presenter takes with respect to the thing being measured. A better way to think about these statistics is that numbers in this range should be considered more along the lines of "significant" or "noteworthy". To illustrate the importance of what might appear trivial, I'll cite an example I ran across many years ago: An article, the thrust of which was, "a study finds that only 16% of people have changed their minds as a result of Facebook arguments, so don't bother arguing on Facebook". But this gets it altogether backwards. A 16-point change in opinion, presumably over the span of the existence of Facebook, which was about a decade at the time... That is *very* significant change. That's a 32-point swing in opinions over the last 20 years. Now, we don't know what respondents changed their minds about or how many different things they changed their minds about. But if, for example, they changed their minds about gay marriage or marijuana legalization, then that's enough to account for the dramatic shift we've seen in the culture over that time period. Think about that; Facebook arguments alone could account for the *entire* shift in public opinion and consequently, public policy on these matters. Conversely, if minds were changed about, say, the use of violence to achieve political ends, then we could have an explanation for the dark turn American conservatism has taken of late. So, that 16% number could explain either of those trends, or *both* (if different people changed their minds on multiple issues), and possibly much more. Long story short, don't underestimate numbers in the teens and low 20s, because the more important question is which direction those changes are moving (props for throwing in an "and shrinking" to your commentary), and how fast.

Thank you for your insights. I hope the more extreme of them do not come to pass. As a U.S. citizen I can appreciate a lot of the possibilities you propose. Here is hoping both the U.S. and Canada continue to progress toward a future focused on Liberty, Fraternity, and Egalitarianism.

Hey JJ, I just want to let you know how much I appreciate your videos and I watch them everyday. Thank you for everything you do and you are one of my favorite KZfaqrs!

I don't think you'll see Canada & the US just up and agree to be one country out of nowhere. It would be precipitated by agreements similar to the EU with a single border & currency, etc. You would be able to see it coming from a mile away

I could definitely see Canada and the US forming a union similar to that of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. They are separate countries, but they are still in a larger overall union.

Excellent video because of the content and the polished video construct. I also enjoy the many topics you are able to cover. You are a tempest in a tea pot , so when you grow to big for Canada , I hope you find your way down South. You are truly one who comforts the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.

I think another possibility is if the US balkanizes -- either in to two parts (red/blue split) or into regional pieces. Say if Washington and Oregon (with or without California) split to become "Cascadia". Would BC be tempted to join that? Or if a "simple" US red/blue split, would some provinces jump on that?

Proposed Canadian Statehood: ✅ Made fun of the Quebecois: ✅ Slandered the Green Party: ✅ Ticked all the boxes, this is a J. J. McCullough certified classic.

As an Albertan, I feel safe to say that if Quebec did end up separating, it could start a domino effect of Canada's breakup as Alberta would likely follow second. A lot of the farmers around here would say, "If Canada was a Cow, the west side does all the feeding while the east gets all the milk." Sure the city folks may have improvements, but the areas outside them have different opinions. Small towns are slowly becoming ghost towns as store buildings are put up for sale and people move away to find new work. Farmers are losing thrice money they make due to the 'taxes' that were demanded. Thats where a bunch of the Conservative politicians, truckers, oil workers, and especially the protesters are truly from. For years they have dealt with that frustration of getting robbed as they try to self sustain themselves with ridiculous taxes. When Stephen Harper was PM, he was giving them that chance to build and grow their communities, and as the years passed they were developing. When Justin Trudeau was first elected, Alberta knew that it was the beginning of the end as his 'carbon tax' has literally squeezed the life out of rural areas. And after years of frustration with unemployment and poverty growing, they are starting to have enough with the new lines of bills planned which pretty much targets their whole livelyhoods left and right. They REALLY hate what Justin has done to the province to the point where he is on billboards and photo painted on windows dressed as Castro. Now as far as the idea of Canada becoming under dictatorship, that will be difficult as there is still A LOT of open land that they would need a lot of numbers to spread out, having plenty of places where any rebels could set up and combat against it. That in turn, would likely draw out a long civil war within. With how Albertans are against the idea of Tyranny in their protests, they will definetly put up a fight where the Authoritarians would classify Alberta as a rebel province. Even if they end up winning, it would be a drawn out civil war. Anyway, thought I'd share that bit of extra information as someone whose observed it over the years and may be able to give a little bit of insight on why there's THAT much anger by the many Albertans towards our current PM.

Back around the time of the fall of the Soviet Union and the separatist movement in Quebec I remember my sister-in-law saying how growing up we could never imagine Germany becoming one country and Canada becoming two. Thanks for your videos.

JJ! Could you do a video on the ‘American Sports Canon’ (football, baseball, basketball) and why those are so popular here in the US and maybe why other countries have different ‘sports canons’ like cricket, rugby, and soccer? I have always wondered this and I know you’re the guy to ask! Love your videos, keep up the great work!!

When we talk about a U.S. - Canada merge, I feel we often omit the U.S. perspective in all this. I think it’s a tough pill to swallow even for them. They would loose some of their sovereignty if all provinces were given full statehood status. Also, I’m pretty sure the republican side of things would have its doubts in welcoming 30-40 million people who would heavily lean democrat for the vast majority. Maybe like J.J. said it makes more sense to think long term for this scenario.

This video was really entertaining, thank you for all the content since I subscribed a few years ago.

Great content! I'm really impressed you do it all on a pogo stick.

JJ being friends with whatifalthist was not something I was prepared for.

Well the real answer is that Canada will collapse when Rogers goes down for more than a day

This gave me a lot to ponder, cheers

Truly a great video. I learned a lot as an American keep up the great work love your channel.

Honestly Canada has a higher likelihood of dictatorship than the USA. Despite America's political turmoil, a dictatorship there would be harder to maintain due to the intense regionalism in the US and the lack of (EDIT: historical) political consensus.

As a Texas native, I LOVE the overexaggerated Canadian upspeak, gratuitous use of aboots, been pronounced as "bean" not ben, and the playfully passive-aggressive mentions of Canada's Elite's disdain for the US! We love Canada down here!!

I have a feeling, after Quebec leaves, the middle provinces may begin drifting towards the idea of buying into becoming a U.S state. It might take more decades, but I think it's a probability.

I love the way you look at both sides speculatively, you speak about everything with so much passion! Would be cool to meet you man

I had a teacher in college who was from France whom I remember talking to her about life in the US. One of things she pointed out to me several times in discussing differences between the Americas and Europe was how the economies of nations in the Americas are basically intertwined like nations in Europe, yet there’s no union like in Europe. As she learned more about the histories of the US, Canada, and Mexico she pointed out that in the past many states and provinces and territories were like separate nations in unions similar to like in Europe, but then by the mid-twentieth century the different nations took different paths and became more homogeneous nationally. One of the things I remember her talking about was that Canada seemed to be a nation where the majority of natural resources come from and where companies that extract them are headquartered, Mexico seemed to be the nation where they were sent to in order to be manufactured into products and where manufacturing companies were headquartered, and then these products were then sold in all three countries by service/retail companies headquartered in the US. She pointed out that this wasn’t 100% the case, but that it was enough of a case that she couldn’t understand why the three nations were merely just trading partners and weren’t instead developing themselves into further economic union like Europe. Myself and another student at the university whom used to spend time chatting with her when she and we were free often thought maybe the difference was the Europe had gone through devastating and destructive wars and the economic and political unions forms after the second world war, along with many other things in Europe, were grounded with the mission or premise of maintaining peace on the continent of Europe whereas no such devastation or destruction had occurred in North America to cause a similar development. Even a history teacher who was very well known for being conservative pointed out that the destructive and devastating US civil war and the Mexican Revolution had led to changes within both nations that were similar to what she mentioned for Europe. However another teacher from Poland disagreed with her that Europe was somehow different from North America and she argued that there was more unionizing between the three nations, but that it wasn’t as noticeable because of both nationalistic language used by citizens in each nation and their politician as well as lack of recognized institutions viewed as representing all three nations. (To clarify this was between 1998-2002 when I was in college). Since there are moments in US history where there were various times where discussions and even attempts to add Canada and Mexico to the US have occurred, I think that the most plausible reason you cited that if Canada were going to “end” would be if it joined as part of the US somehow. The Canadians I have known tend to be Canadians first and citizens of their provinces second...much like Americans and the many Mexicans I have known. So the idea that these three nations would fall apart I think would only occur if there was a major break down on national identity and major shift towards state/province identity. I’m not saying it couldn’t happen, I just think it’d take a very long time to switch that since that national identities are often rooted in abstract concepts whereas the other identity is rooted in land and people tend to move around a lot for work, etc, in each nation. I have family throughout the US in various states and territories and the idea of us being an American family is more central to our family identity that the individual state/territory identities....some of which change after living in a place for so long. I do agree that if each nation were to join each other in union there’d need to be some coming together on some issues and so any such union would require years and years of movement by all parties involved to eventually succeed in occurring and at the present there doesn’t seem to be any actual parties anywhere interested in moving in that direction. (Although it is a fun thought experiment to figure out how a government of such a union would look like: if the Canadian provinces and territories and Mexican states joined the US what the US government would look like; if the US states and territories and Mexican states joined Canada what the Canadian government would look like; if the US states and territories and Canadian provinces and territories joined Mexico what the Mexican government would look like; if the three nations joined together like the European Union what it would like either as just the three nations or each of the three nations states, territories, and provinces represented individually in an EU type government). The idea a nation could end via tyranny is definitely always an option for any nation. I like that you said technically the nation still exists while the spirit or underlying aspects of a nation them die. I find the concept of the indigenous government interesting. It’s something I’m certainly not as familiar with. To be fair until a friend of mine whose Choctaw had mentioned that technically the Choctaw Nation’s treaty with the US grants them the right to send a delegate to Congress. Something they’ve not done, but the Cherokee Nation in 2019 did elect someone...though Congress hasn’t allowed the nonvoting delegate to be seated in the US House of Representatives yet. I think Maine is the only US state that actually actively has tribal representation in its state legislature (I don’t know for certain and wasn’t even aware of it in Maine until a friend and his husband and four adopted kids recently moved back after living in Maine for several years and had mentioned it as a possible solution in Oklahoma since our current governor, who technically is a member of the Cherokee Nation, has consistently picked fights with the 39+ tribal governments in the state and caused damage between tribal governments’ and state government’s relationships...something several in the state legislature have not been keen on; the governor has also consistently picked fights with the legislature...despite the fact that his party has a supermajority in both chambers). So I’m definitely interested in hearing more about how Canada’s government is working with its tribes. It’s certainly not something I’ve heard much about. To be fair if I didn’t live in Oklahoma I don’t think I would probably know, as American, much about how the relationship between the US government and tribal governments are. I’m merely basing that on my interactions with family members from other states versus family members here. It’s possible my family in other states is an outlier in not being as aware. Great video!

I got to say I do appreciate these videos from JJ. There’s a good sense of reality without going in any distinct direction of polarizing opinion. I’m always left with a good note to think about. Good work man!

The formation of city-states is an idea worth looking at. The The urban places exert way to much power because of their greater voting numbers. Happens in almost all states in the USA, and is especially evident in California. The "urban coastal elites" don't give a damn about the treasures of the huge agricultural areas, as long as they can get things at the supermarket and water their lawns.

Great stuff Jj! As usual

Hey JJ, in light of the Rogers internet outage, as well as C-11, I think this would be a good time to talk about Canada's weird chauvinism towards American companies entering the Canadian market, and how this ties into the motivations behind C-11

I think there's credit to be held with all of these ideas. Like in 100 years, you might see an independent Quebec bordering both American Canada and a separate anti-American Canada

This is an excellent video. All fact-focused, no bias. He is good in his delivery of the subject matter but can go around in circles sometimes. He needs to be more straight to the point, but I can understand that this is not easy with the highly complex subject matter that he is discussing.

Brilliant presentation, and essentially unbiased as well.

I'm Canadian and I have been watching your videos for a while, and honestly I love them. I am going to recommend this channel to as many people as possible, because you deserve the 1 million subscriber play button.

Hey JJ, I really enjoy your videos. As someone who immigrated to Canada at age 11, I sometimes feel that I've missed learning certain things about Canadian history and culture. Your videos are very informative and provide historical context to many of the current events and cultural shifts in this country.

I am from Brazil. It's nice to know more about Canada legal, political structure, geography and history. I subscribed today. I met you from the shorts, by the way.

J.J, thank you for always bringing us content that both educates and entertains us. I also wanted to note that you have beautiful skin and wonderful hair. ☺️☺️

Can we just appreciate the sunflower shirt that JJ is rocking? :) it is so wonderfully divergent with the dire subject it provides a happy escape in the midst of the chaos. Kinda like JJ :) Honestly, I think so many people are just exhausted with all of the division and corruption of politicians on all sides. There are so many things we all have in common, the quickest way to destroy that is to continue down the compartmentalization rabbit hole that we are on. It seems like we are on a tenuous slope in the US as well with talk of places like Texas seceding but to JJ's point, the downsides of that economically would be so dire that it would be tough to swallow. We of course will see as I am rarely surprised by the insanity that seems to prevail in the world today. Hang in there and Happy Saturday everyone!!

I think literal annexation of Canada into the USA would not be ideal. I do support the idea of a Canadian-US open border and trade treaty like the EU

I live in germany and I really like your great Videos. Great personality too.

Greetings from Windsor! Keep it up, JJ.

This video is ridiculously well thought out and meditated upon. Great job

It's odd that people don't want North American Oil with all of their EPA restrictions but are fine with unregulated heavily polluting oil from other nations.

Always enjoy @whatifalthist videos. I'd love to hear your take on his videos regarding the trajectory of the West as a whole. Most tend to view the topic from a US or EU point of view.

yay new jj video

I've actually heard some Canadians say things like free speech are "dumb American ideas." Including recently during the truckers' protest. Fortunately that seems to be a rare minority opinion, but it is chilling to hear.

Way back in my highschool/early 20s libertarian days I thought it wouldn't been interesting if both the U.S. and Canada abolished their respective federal governments and joined together in a confederation of the states, provinces, and territories. I no longer agree with this for several reasons, but I guess it could make for an interesting alternate history scenario.

That t-shirt is adorable ✨ great video, so so interesting ❤️

Great Video!

Rather than a "merger" of our nations I could easily imagine some form of union like Europe's, where nationhood is preserved on paper but a the economy is fully unified with free movement of goods and people. And if a more formal combining were in the cards, I'd imagine the US would eat up the provinces one at a time.

I think your take on the preconditions for a US-Canada merger is spot-on. Still, I recall bringing up similar polling results about the willingness of Canadians to join the Union (they were even higher in the 1990s I believe) to other Americans and they’re always astounded. It’s definitely an idea far outside our Overton Window for the last few decades.

An Albertans perspective: There is no popular seperatist movement here. Firstly, many Albertans have moved here from other parts of Canada and have less of a connection to the province itself. There is growing discontent about our lot in the country (namely the carbon tax and equalization payments) but the sentiment that I have observed has been for advocacy towards Albertan issues within the Canadian system. That being said, Ottawa has seemed deaf to our complaints as of late, and the provincial government seems more willing to show some teeth to combat federal policy. I honestly cant see anything happening without major actions taken against Alberta by the federal government, but that being said nobody likes to be ignored

The idea of the USA becoming a dictatorship before Canada is so stupid, considering the Federal Govnerment of the USA is characterized by a lack of laws, while the Canadian one is characterized by having too many laws

You're legit my favorite Canadian KZfaqr I could listen to you talk for hours

The problem with using pride in being a Canadian to mean not regionalist is that for a lot of people what they think of as Canadian is probably their region. In the US I know quite a few people who view being proud to be an American and being proud to be whatever their region is as being the same. That's why they view their political opponents from other parts of the country as not being American.

Your analysis of Canada as a centralized federation picks one of the few areas where Canada is more centralized than the United States. Canada requires more input from provinces on amendments (depending on the scope of the amendment), environmental policy, economic regulation, labour relations, and other areas. The U.S. supreme court has adopted such a broad interpretation of the commerce clause that the nation's federal government has expanded massively in size and scope, while the Canadian supreme court has a long history of defending provincial jurisdiction

Yup…the Constitution Act, of 1982 was the beginning of the end for Canada as we know it. Ever since, there has been more talk about Provinces not being happy with their voices being heard in Ottawa. I left in CND in 1995 due to never ending growth of socialism & Quebec voting for national independence seceding Canada. Most of the viewers don’t realize Canada almost ceased to exist as we know it today.

Hey J.J, good job on another great video! Love your stuff man

The one big issue with Quebec are the cases of Ungava, James Bay Treaties and Eastern Townships. If Quebec moves toward independence, they would face losing some areas and boarder changes.

Great video J.J!

Just so you know sir you are award winning as my cdn politics prof here in Hamilton Ontario McMaster university 3rd year class gave a lecture analyzing your video fyi. Therefore, you're now an analyzed Canadian intellectual in an academic sense .

Maybe I'm too Americentric (being a USA citizen), but I definitely feel that the USA is in a much more unstable situation right now, though I definitely acknowledge that Canada isn't as stable as some may think. Not to mention several US states could realistically exist as independent countries (California's population is greater than Canada after all), whereas most Canadian provinces are extremely tiny population wise

An Albertan here. I have plenty of albertans that believes Alberta would be better off as independent or as a US Protectorate. So far from the Albertans I have asked, 65% of them would rather see Alberta stray further away from Ottawa and the Trudeau government. 20% doesn't care, and the rest opposes. There are plenty of liberal minded Albertans but most of them either move to BC or Ontario or changed political beliefs. The younger population are either full on right wing or apolitical. I'm sure there is someone here that will disagree but that is my perspective and as a born and raised Albertan.

I wonder what the result would be if the question at 3:09 had been about identifying with your city first, as opposed to your province.

I like your cut G *slaps your head* 🤣🤣🤣 In all seriousness, did not know you made this video until today. This is going to be good.

Actually support for independence has gone from 34% to 48% between the last two elections of Trudeau. The trend continues.

I feel like people are too strict in how Canada will join the US. I don’t think Canada/its provinces would just become states, I feel as if they would become some sort of collaboration government that has higher autonomy than a state but is still part of America. I feel like Canada is too different than America politically for such a sudden annexation and the collaboration government would be a good compromise.

These videos are so damn good

Can you please do a video about the city flags of Canada and what should be improved if there is any improvements to be made

Amazing stuff J.J.! Have you ever considered doing a weekly/ monthly podcast talking about news or whatever else? I’m sure I’m not the only one who would be eager to listen. Or even doing lives for more casual conversation?

I am Canadian and have spent 20 years of my professional life in the US. We are so similar in culture that I would not mind becoming American.

You're "on the ball", literally! 🤣🤣🤣

A little off topic but, can I ask what that black and white flag behind your head is? It looks like a Lincoln penny (silhouette on white circle) on a black background]

As a new salt and pepper hair sporter, I'm glad JJ is on the team. Wear it proud my friend

As an Albertan who's moved to England this year- either your accent is super thick or it's just been that long since I've heard a Canadian accent😅 I'm a new subscriber and it's definitely nice to hear your take on things going on back home. And as an Albertan from a conservative family, I completely understand the Alberta separate mentally but think it's far from reality.

I love how in the graphic of all the "Nation States" they all get such unique names except for PEI

Why is a US/Canada merge so taboo to talk about? I get that losing the identity of your country in favor of another is looked down on (I'd feel the same way) but it should still be worth a discussion. The difference between a province and a state is a very interesting topic.

At this point, I agree with you that there's always a wild card that can take a country in just about any direction. The idea of a USA-Canada merger doesn't seem all that crazy to me. Maybe one day. 🤔 Great video, JJ.✌️

When I was in college back in 2000, I took a US-Canadian geography course, and my professor, who was Canadian, had a few theories on if Quebec did concede from Canada. First would be Quebec would separate and everything else would remain the same. The second was Quebec separates and the other Atlantic Provinces would choose to stay with Canada, or they could separate on their own. And his third theory and possibly most likely would be that the USA would take over the Atlantic Provinces.

JJ, I was very happy to hear your point about statehood and the idea of just talking about it more. I'm 20, maybe a little young for these ideas, but I genuinely feel like statehood is within my lifetime. The biggest problem I run into talking about it isn't the fact that it's not impossible (if anything it's much easier for the US and Canada to unite then any other two nations in the world), its just the fact that people don't really hear the idea thrown around.

Love the video. I also enjoy watching the WhatIfs. I haven't followed politics for a long time and usually in Canada you don't need to follow closely because you can get by with governments that don't last long and as such, limit the damage they do. The pendulum stays close to the bottom usually. Your videos have brought me up to speed, and reminded me of some of the things I have learned in my history classes a long time ago. Thank you. Of recent, I have been following politics again as I believe in this upcoming election, probably in 2026 (can't see this guy calling an election until it is necessary), the way the nation votes will dictate whether we will continue down the path of a "post-nationalist country". With that said, which of your scenario closely resembles a "post-national state"? In your video you mentioned freedom of speech restrictions C-11 (and now C-63) is this sort of things a first step of post nationalism that leads to a possible dictatorship(Tyranny)? Thanks again for these interesting videos. We just didn't have these discussions 45 years ago in high school and if we did, I probably wouldn't have fallen asleep so often.