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Dear Brendan P Randall and fellow Canadians, Brendan, thank you for engaging with my post and for your comment. I appreciate you stepping up to the Alberta/Saskatchewan verses New York/California economic challenge. Your response implicitly acknowledges a key point: “No Canadian province can economically compete with powerhouse states like California or New York and certainly not Alberta or Saskatchewan when we look at metrics like GDP per capita, resource-driven growth, and overall economic output.” Thank you also for sharing your views on quality of life. Let's unpack the claims with data and context rather than broad averages, because aggregates can obscure important realities. Life Expectancy, Health, and Education Brendan, it is true that the U.S. national life expectancy (around 79 years recently) lags Canada's (around 82-83 years). Americans also show poorer averages on some health metrics and certain education indicators in broad studies. However, these national figures hide significant variation. Working, productive Americans who have spent decades in the workforce "42 years" often outperform Canadian averages on health and longevity metrics. Subgroups with high workforce participation, stable families, and lower risk behaviors frequently show stronger outcomes in USA over Canada. Conversely, segments involving long-term non-work, substance abuse (notably opioids), crime, and poverty pull down U.S. national averages disproportionately. Canada's statistics benefit from different demographics and policy reporting. On Education Canada has a high share of international students in post-secondary enrollment (often 20%+ at universities, with peaks 50% higher in college programs and year periods). The U.S. has a much larger native-born share driving its higher education system, with strong attainment among working-age Americans. Foreign-born arrivals to the U.S. can show high education levels, but native-born comparisons matter for "average person" discussions. Crime and Victimization The U.S. has higher overall violent crime rates in national data, but this varies enormously by state, city, and neighborhood. New York and California have seen improvements in some metrics, but challenges remain in major urban areas. Alberta and Saskatchewan are not immune to property and certain crime issues outpacing USA by many percentiles. Selective comparisons require city-to-city or adjusted-per-capita analysis rather than blanket national statements. Poverty Measurements Poverty definitions differ significantly. The U.S. uses an absolute threshold (around $32,000 USD for a single person in recent contexts, varying by household). Canada's Low Income Measure (LIM) or similar is often relative and set lower in USD terms ($18k USD). Adjusting Canada's line to a comparable U.S.-style threshold raises its reported poverty rate substantially studies using consistent measures (e.g., 50% of median income) show the U.S. with higher rates, but Canada's advantage shrinks or shifts when accounting for transfers, purchasing power, and definitions of poverty. According to USA metrics, Canada’s true poverty rate is 30%, not 12%. Medical Bankruptcies and Healthcare The U.S. does see hundreds of thousands of bankruptcies involving medical debt annually (often cited in the 500k+ range historically when including contributions), representing a notable share of filings (50%). This reflects a fragmented system with high costs. Universal coverage has trade-offs too: wait times, rationing, and lower innovation incentives in Canada. The idea of Canada as the 51st state using SCOTUS to push universal models is creative, integration would involve complex federalism, much lower costs, and policy that forces an end to trillions in federal annual deficits. Economic Context Alberta and Saskatchewan frequently lead or compete at the top in GDP per capita among provinces and many U.S. states thanks to resources and industry. California and New York generate massive total GDP but face high costs of living, taxes, and inequality, however Alberta and Saskatchewan face even higher cost of living, taxes and inequality when bench marks are spread evenly. USA is not perfect, but it is better to die on your feet than live life on your knees. The USA gives the individual free choice with personal accountability and responsibility. Canada takes that choice away and removes accountability and responsibility. Look at historical unemployment rates: the U.S. has generally maintained a healthier, more dynamic working class with lower structural unemployment over long periods compared to Canada. Freedom, opportunity, and self-reliance drive prosperity. Let's discuss the data openly, Canadians deserve the full picture as we consider stronger ties or models that prioritize growth and liberty. Best regards, Dave Bjorkman Leader, Party of the Canadian Constitutionalists – PCC For Canada The 51st State

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🚨🇨🇦💞🇺🇸Things are getting interesting and you won't want to miss todays Canada 51st Community Space. Today: Sunday, May 3rd @ 2pm-4pm+ EST. Hosted by Jonathan Bahai Co-Hosted by Dave Bjorkman Leader of the new federal political party PCC All are welcome to join in the conversation or just listen.

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⚠️OMEGA EARTH SHATTERING NEWS:⚠️ Supreme Court of the United States 💥 The Royal Family 💥 Canada The 51st State 💯%❗️❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 President Donald J. Trump

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: THE ROYAL HANDOVER ACTIVATED 🚨👑🇺🇸 The "Master Strategist" just closed the biggest geopolitical deal in human history. Yesterday, April 28th, 2026, the board was permanently reset on the floor of the United States Congress. The God's Honest Truth: King Charles III has officially recognized the Donroe Doctrine and yielded the "Empire" claim over the North. The transition of Canada into the 51st State is now a globally recognized mandate. 📜🤝 The USA 250th Birthday Reality: The Ultimate Integration: Just in time for America's Semiquincentennial, the continent is unified. A massive thank you to President Donald J. Trump and the Royal Family for facilitating a bloodless transition of power. 🦅 The Crown Yields: The Laurentian Elite and the Davos middlemen just lost their shield. The Crown has formally handed the keys to the Vault over to the Sovereign Republic. ⚛️🛢️ The "Institutionalized" rot has been bypassed, and the citizens are finally free to thrive under the Unified Command. 🗺️🛡️ The Republic is officially Number 1. 🦅🇺🇸🏆

Never say never. 🇨🇦🤝🇺🇲

So many dummies will fall for this ridiculous fund. We are broke! We are in debt.

@TomTSEC The only 'sovereign' associated with Canada is the Head of State, The King of England. The preamble to the BNA Act of 1867 has never changed, this is a fund for the benefit of the British Empire, not the people. Everything else is theater. 👑🤡🎪

2/ Individual rights are the only rights that can be exercised without stepping on another human being. I do not need you to agree with my beliefs, my faith, or my lifestyle in order for me to live mine. But the moment I demand that you must celebrate or subsidize mine, or face penalty - I have floor crossed into imposition. The line of individual rights and freedoms is sacred. For when an individual to crosses over into it, the American experiment succeeds while the Canadian one slowly suffocates under the weight of enforced “togetherness.” As Leader of the PCC - Party of the Canadian Constitutionalists, I say this plainly, "Canada’s sickness is not partisan. It is philosophical." We have traded the sovereignty of the individual for the comfort of the hive. We have mistaken government-mandated affirmation for compassion. And until we rediscover that every Canadian’s rights begin and end with the individual protected, "not imposed" we will remain a nation of collectives ruled by the Crown’s bureaucratic heirs. The United States reminds us daily what happens when you put the person first. Canada shows us what happens when you don’t. It’s time we chose the former, before the imposition becomes permanent. Thanks for taking the time, please share. Dave Bjorkman Leader, Party of the Canadian Constitutionalists (PCC) Canada The 51st State OP of FB: facebook.com/share/p/1DTP7a… Author: @DaveBjorkman1

American Individual Rights and Freedoms vs Canadian Imposition of Collective Rights Yesterday, in our X Space, a new group of Canadian voices stepped up to the mic. These were everyday people: Canadians, long-time residents, parents, and concerned citizens who came to talk about the real pressures facing our country. What struck me, as Leader of the Party of the Canadian Constitutionalists (PCC), was not just what they said, but the pattern that kept repeating itself like a drumbeat: collective rights. Speaker after speaker framed every issue family, community, education, speech, even personal identity through the lens of the group. “We must all affirm this.” “Society demands that you recognize our collective experience.” “Your individual view must yield to the greater good.” It wasn’t just one or two voices. It was the dominant theme from speaker after speaker. And in that moment, the sickness at the heart of modern Canada became crystal clear to me. This is the fundamental difference between a Canadian Subject or First Nations defined Savage and the United States American and Indian Citizen. In America, the Founders placed the individual at the center of society. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are not granted by government, they are endowed by our Creator. They are negative rights: freedoms from interference. The American family unit, the community, and the nation exist to protect the individual’s right to live, speak, worship, build, and thrive as he or she sees fit. When any collective "minority or majority" tries to impose its narrative on the American family, the pushback is swift and fierce. “Not in my house. Not in my life. Not on my watch.” That is the American spirit. In Canada, the opposite has taken root. Here, the individual is told that their rights are incomplete until they are absorbed into a collective. Your freedom only feels real when the group approves it. The message is constant: “You must follow my right to… I must make you.” The Crown, through our Constitution, our Charter, and generations of social engineering, has institutionalized this. Collective rights whether defined by language, race, gender, ideology, or “protected class” must be affirmed by everyone in the family, the school, the workplace, and the public square. Dissent is not disagreement; it is heresy against the collective. Folks, it was crystal clear at the X Space: you will absorb my beliefs - you will affirm them. Folks got squeamish, one women piped up, "I'm not comfortable with this". It was the flooding imposition of, "My right, must be your right". I notice when you go into American X Spaces, you will find folks don't waste their breath on the affirmation of their rights through collective push. We have been gaslit into believing this is simply “left-wing” politics. It is not. It is government autocracy hijacking weak-minded socialists and turning it into social engineering. True socialism, at its theoretical best, is about economic sharing among equals. What we have in Canada is something darker: fascist collectivism dressed in polite, bureaucratic clothing. The state doesn’t own the means of production, it owns the narrative of identity, morality, and belonging. And it demands your affirmation, your silence, or your compliance. This is why individual rights must remain the heart of any free society. The pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness ends the moment collective rights are imposed by force or law. Why? Because once the state (or any group backed by the state) can compel you to affirm someone else’s identity, speech, or lifestyle as a condition of your own freedom, liberty itself is destroyed. You are no longer a sovereign person, you are a servant of the collective. Your rights become conditional privileges granted by the group in power. That is not freedom. That is tyranny with a smile and a government form.

@CanadaRoast This

What's stopping this from happening?

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Canada "strong"!

@AntonioTweets2 The solution

China owns Canada’s ONLY antimony mine. And shut it down. Antimony is in every bullet, every missile, every night-vision system. No army on earth can fight a day without it. China bought the Beaver Brook mine in Newfoundland for $29.5 million. Shuttered it in 2023. One year later, Beijing banned antimony exports to the US military. Prices went from $5,900/tonne to nearly $60,000. This mine could produce 5% of global supply. Instead it sits idle under Chinese state control, an hour from a Canadian military base designated for F-35s. The US launched a $10 billion critical minerals reserve. Signed 11 bilateral deals. Canada signed zero. Carney calls China a “strategic partner.” China is using our own resources as a weapon against the West.

@TruthTrumpPost Thank God the President and everyone is ok!

BREAKING: Police are ordering bystanders to move back outside the hotel hosting the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after reports of shots fired.

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🚨🚨DEVELOPING: Shots Fired at White House Correspondents Dinner where President Trump will be attending according to Fox News. "The Secret Service whisked President Trump off of the stage" "Shooter is detained by authorities". According to Fox News the Correspondents dinner is now cancelled.