# Threat to redraw the Canada-US border **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 28, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918 "2025-02-28T12:39:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/1 "2025-02-28T12:39:14Z")
This has been reported from the UK: [White House official threatens to redraw Canadian border](https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-official-threatens-redraw-053000568.html) Maybe Canada can give the US the Northwest Angle (that bit of Minnesota that sticks up above the 49th parallel) in return for Point Roberts (sticks down below the 49th parallel) in BC? ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/2 "2025-02-28T12:47:44Z")
I feel like some of the ancient Roman citizens probably felt when they reached the point of realizing that their dictator with absolute power was a totally off the rails megalomaniac. šŸ˜³ ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/3 "2025-02-28T13:00:47Z")
Will it come back to 52-40 or fight? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/4 "2025-02-28T14:28:01Z")
> [@Mark\_Finn](#): > > Maybe Canada can give the US the Northwest Angle (that bit of Minnesota that sticks up above the 49th parallel) in return for Point Roberts (sticks down below the 49th parallel) in BC? Um, how can we trade, since the US already have both those things? Or am I missing something? ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/5 "2025-02-28T15:42:27Z")
Thatā€™s 54-40, no? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/6 "2025-02-28T15:49:29Z")
Oh duh, youā€™re right. Stupid typo. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/7 "2025-02-28T15:52:47Z")
So, yeah, Trump wants to conquer all of North America, plus Greenland. That way he can keep up with Putin, who wants to restore the Soviet Union, and Xi, who wants to gain hegemony over East Asia. Easy-peasy. Hey, he can make a deal. Just like buying up a golf course, right? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/8 "2025-02-28T16:03:08Z")
Sometimes it took the Praetorian Guard to ā€œpersuadeā€ the crazy dictators to step down. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/9 "2025-02-28T16:33:38Z")
Pig War II Except this time it will be with Canada instead of UK. Maybe Trump will rebrand it to something snazzier like Canadian Bacon War. > **[Pig War (1859)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859))** > > Ā United States > Ā United Kingdom > Current Border Disputes > The Pig War was a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the Britishā€“U.S. border in the San Juan Islands, between Vancouver Island (present-day Canada) and the Washington Territory (present-day State of Washington). The Pig War, so called because it was triggered by the shooting of a pig, is also called the Pig Episode, the Pig and Potato War, the San Juan Boundary Dispute, and the Northwestern Boundary... ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/10 "2025-02-28T16:37:09Z")
I genuinely wonder if, in five years, I will be a US citizen or US occupied or something. Sadly, not a joke. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/11 "2025-02-28T17:06:39Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Pig War II > > Except this time it will be with Canada instead of UK. Maybe Trump will rebrand it to something snazzier like Canadian Bacon War. > > [Pig War (1859) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)) What a ham you are. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/12 "2025-02-28T17:26:54Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > What a ham you are. Thatā€™ll do, pig. Thatā€™ll do. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/13 "2025-02-28T17:35:53Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > > [@Mark\_Finn](#): > > > > Maybe Canada can give the US the Northwest Angle (that bit of Minnesota that sticks up above the 49th parallel) in return for Point Roberts (sticks down below the 49th parallel) in BC? > > Um, how can we trade, since the US already have both those things? Or am I missing something? Whoops! My error. Of couse they are both US regions. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/14 "2025-02-28T18:23:09Z")
Do the Mounties have a camo uniform? ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/15 "2025-02-28T18:37:06Z")
Maybe some of you have forgotten the power this ā€˜manā€™ wields with a **[Sharpie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dorian%E2%80%93Alabama_controversy)**. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/16 "2025-02-28T18:47:43Z")
That incident proved once and for all that he is not capable of being embarrassed. Showing off that weather map with his addendum. The clip of that can go with his masturbatory admiration of the shape of Floridaā€™s Gulf coast. That easel with the Gulf of America map is still sitting next to his booger desk. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/17 "2025-02-28T19:07:38Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Sometimes it took the Praetorian Guard to ā€œpersuadeā€ the crazy dictators to step down. Of course, they also sold the emperorship to Flavius Claudius Julianus who was able to purchase it through his enormous wealth, soā€¦ > [@velomont](#): > > I genuinely wonder if, in five years, I will be a US citizen or US occupied or something. Sadly, not a joke. Well, not any more anyway. But once upon a timeā€¦: > **[Canadian Bacon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Bacon)** > > Canadian Bacon is a 1995 comedy film written, produced, and directed by Michael Moore which satirizes Canadaā€“United States relations along the Canadaā€“United States border. The film stars an ensemble cast featuring Alan Alda, John Candy (in his final film role), Bill Nunn, Kevin J. O'Connor, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak, G. D. Spradlin, and Rip Torn. It tells the story of a struggling President who is persuaded by his confidants to fight with Canada when a local sheriff and his friends get involv... Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/18 "2025-02-28T19:20:16Z")
Moderating: This thread belongs in the Pit, if anywhere. @Mark_Finn, please let us know if you would like it reopened there. There is no substantive discussion occurring here. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threat-to-redraw-the-canada-us-border/1014918/19 "2025-02-28T19:20:23Z")
Closed on February 28, 2025, 7:20pm UTC