The Canadian cities would take 20 minutes to capture.
We’d never be able to tame the rural areas of Canada. Their resistance would be fierce. Too costly.
Pffft, rural areas want to flock to us so bad. Pure little bro syndrome and want to be made to feel relevant. Rural Canada is basically the US except completely made irrelevant by Vancouver-Toronto-Montreal. Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Alberta would join the US if given a chance.
Conquering them if NATO wasn't a thing would mean it would be over in like a week, especially if you gave them incentives like each province is treated like and admitted as a state. Only Quebec and like half of Ontario would put up any serious fight. Vancouver would like to but they are basically Seattle and would go along with it.
I hate trump but that remark he made, especially to Trudeau, will play very well to like 40% of the country. They are in serious BID mode in rural areas and I think willing to throw enough around if it meant they were on our side of the fence.
Many are scared shitless rn cause of his exact comments. Basically if we tariff them we'll ruin their economy, and that isn't an exaggeration.