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Canada Federal Election 2025

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Poll aggregator: https://338canada.com/

Live results: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2025/results/

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In my area of the US, once you get past the jingoism and into discussion, people would be happy with integrating Alberta, Sasketchewan, and the non-Vancouver parts of BC. Manitoba is a maybe, and the territories are might as wells, they wouldn’t get treated like states anyways.

Some kind of integration between Alberta and the USA would be the most likely first step, short of a war where the US just takes the parts it wants and leaves the rest as a rump state.

people would be happy with integrating Alberta, Sasketchewan, and the non-Vancouver parts of BC

The Canadians in those areas say the same, and (as you can see from the election map) have voted accordingly.

The thing about Manitoba is that it's always been quasi-Canadian [Canadian as defined by the East] due to being the last stop into the Prairies (also that thing in the late 1800s when the Metis fought it out with the Upper Canadians); it's also sufficiently French for official language to actually be a concern (and Winnipeg is the westernmost city for which that's true). It could go either way with them, honestly- the fact they're also a resource-poor province on average compared to the rest of the West makes for some unique politics (and is part of why, historically, MB and SK are where the NDP come from).

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