Out of all the States, Minnesota is one of the few I’d have almost zero objection to welcoming in. “Minnesota Nice” and “Canadian Polite” are closely related (but somewhat different).

Sadly, it will never happen. Adding a province requires re-opening the Constitution, and that’s not going to happen. (If you’re too young to remember, look up the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords)

+1

15x the fine, and index it to the wealth total of the world’s top 5% as per some org that tracks it.

At least then the juice will be worth the squeeze.

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Jasmeet Singh is charged in California with threatening someone in Canada for the Bishnoi gang

I misread that as Jagmeet Singh. My mind was blown for about 0.38s.