How Canada can become part of the United States

While Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney shops his country to China and Qatar, Americans should revisit an idea the Founding Fathers first proposed: welcoming Canada into the Union. 

Donald Trump is not the first president to entertain the idea of Canada joining the United States. That title goes to George Washington. In his 1775 open letter to the Inhabitants of Canada,  Washington invited Canadian colonists to support the Revolution against British despotism: “Come then, my brethren, unite with us in an indissoluble Union”.