Note that the argument given for joining are the same old one we've been hearing for 200yrs+: there would be less conflict if Ontario were part of the USA rather than independent.
Note: http://www.ontariousa.org/
Ontario, USA
Posted on Friday, January 02 at 22:55 by N Say
Here's a nice site by some Americans who think Ontario should join the USA:
http://www.ontariousa.org/
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Dave Ruston
2- I dare anybody to say this doesn\'t make your blood boil.
Here\'s an excerpt: (I isolated 2 particularly interesting lines)
Statehood Issues
I have heard that not everyone in Ontario favors statehood, is this true?
Yes and no. The hostility that exists among various provinces in Canada is like a young man picking fights with his fiancée because he would rather marry someone else, but just cannot bring himself to tell her. She is more than happy to take up the fight because she does not want to marry him either. So then why exactly are they engaged? Their parents arranged it. That is simply not good enough, and today\'s Ontarians do not want the dead hand of history to permanently doom them to something that had its chance but failed.
No longer simply complacent in being part of a second class nation on a first class continent,
[whatever that means]
they want to be free to pursue their own destiny, free to make their own choices, and free live their own lives. They want to be a full part of the United States but just cannot bring themselves to say it, so they make it inevitable through a self fulfilling prophecy.
On Nationalism:
Meanwhile in the last century, the bonds that have drawn Ontario closer to the U.S. have grown ever stronger. So united are we in so many broad reaching aspects of our daily lives that it would be difficult to differentiate between Ontario and the U.S., if not for the border that divides us. Yet ultimately its not that Canada is so bad, which it clearly is not. Its that the United States, even with all of its admitted faults is so good. And as that very border between Ontario and the U.S. has lost its modern relevance, so has the notion of Canadian nationalism in its current
context.
Canada no longer really has a reason for existing,
and more are becoming aware of that fact. The once dominant east-west flow of trade has ultimately been trumped by a north-south flow. The nation is now more than ever, the exact opposite of what it was created to be in 1867. Its time we let go of the historical remnants of the past in order to take charge of our own destiny—within our own American continent. The ultimate irony though is that with statehood, nothing that Ontario is would be lost, but all that Ontario could be in the good sense would be gained.
Feel better?
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JvH
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"So many right-wing Christians, so few lions." - t-shirt I saw @ school
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Dave Ruston