Option #14: Option #14: Contiguous Borders: Bribe British Columbia and the Yukon to join the United States

by Juliet Peters of Fairbanks, USA

According the Canadian government there are 4,078.4 Million British Columbians and just 30,000 Yukoners (The little triangle area above British Columbia). For 500 Billion dollars, we could offer each person in these areas $122,000 US to join the United States. Given 2.2 people per family plus an exchange rate of 1.2 (the Canadian dollar is worth less) this would be $325,000 Canadian dollars per family.

Alaska would no longer be outside of the main part of America and we could also be able to protect the western coast better, since Canadians don't have much of a miliary. Canadians are not as patriotic so they would be willing to succeed and join the United States. There likely would not be a war over this since Canada is democratic and their French Province has almost succeeded without anybody talking about a civil war.

The only down side is that the map would look funny, but then I'm sure we'd get use to it. We could call the USA "The Big Dipper". Who knows, maybe if the Iraq war costs 1 Trillion, we could have bought Alberta (lots of oil and the most USA loving province in Canada) and the North West Territories.