C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ibtimesuk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ibtimesuk</span></a></span> </p><p>There's something that annoys me about stories like these, which we see many of each time something politically reviled happens in the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a>.</p><p>We get <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americans</span></a> saying they're going to <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/move" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>move</span></a> to <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>.</p><p>We get <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/politicians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politicians</span></a> saying they're going to <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/secede" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>secede</span></a> from the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> and join Canada.</p><p>On and on and on...</p><p>But it never seems to even occur to any of them that <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> gets a say in this. Don't secede only to find that Canada's response to being asked to absorb a few U.S. <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/states" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>states</span></a> is "thanks, but no."</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MoveToCanada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MoveToCanada</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/JoinCanada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoinCanada</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SelfDetermination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfDetermination</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/annoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>annoy</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/annoyance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>annoyance</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p>