'Mr. Wonderful' Kevin O'Leary Promotes Trump's Suggestion of Canada Merging With the US - Sort Of

President-elect Trump seems like he’s been having a lot of fun trolling Canada. He has proposed making Canada the 51st state, among other things. Granted it’s been a long time since the United States added any territory, much less a state. None of that is likely to happen, of course, but well-known Canadian and “Shark Tank” star, “Mr. Wonderful” Kevin O’Leary, has just such a merger proposition – sort of.

Canadian businessman Kevin O’Leary proposed on Thursday that the United States and Canada eliminate the border between them to form a united front against China and Russia.

Trump suggested in a Christmas Day Truth Social post that Canada should become the United States’ 51st state, which the president-elect asserted would boost the northern country’s economy and provide it with military security. O’Leary, on “The Big Money Show,” said the potential economic and security benefits of the countries uniting are attractive prospects.

              

O’Leary said:

There’s 41 million Canadians, basically the population of California, sitting on the world’s largest amounts of all resources, including the most important, energy and water. Canadians over the holidays the last two days have been talking about this. They want to hear more. And so there’s obviously a lot of issues and more details, but what this could be is the beginning of an economic union. Think about the power of combining the two economies, erasing the border between Canada and the United States and putting all that resource up to the northern borders where China and Russia are knocking on the door.

Now there’s a thought. 

There are some considerations, of course, that the President-elect and Mr. O’Leary aren’t taking into account. Canada, yes, is a big country, and yes, has a lot of resources. What Mr. O’Leary is proposing appears to be an economic union, not necessarily a political one, wherein the two countries would form some kind of European Union-style arrangement, with a common currency and lowering of trade barriers; that’s kind of a halfway point between the and Donald Trump’s annexation idea.

There’s also a problem. The EU is far from a more perfect union. Having states as disparate as Germany on the one hand and the PIGS nations (Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain) sharing a common currency isn’t without its problems; and while Canada and the United States are more alike than, say, Norway and Greece, there are still some serious differences.


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