Green Co-Leader Elizabeth May says she believes the small number of MPs named in a recent spy watchdog report did not knowingly set out to betray Canada. May speaks during a press conference in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
“No matter how many Trump photos of him in business suits striding Swiss mountains he posts with a Canadian flag, we’re not intimidated,” she told reporters at a news conference Friday. “I take offence. We do not strive to be the 51st state, we’re a G7 country.”Besides declining Trump’s humble offer to bring Canada into the United States, the MP for Saanich—Gulf Islands, British Columbia, offered her own deal instead to neighbours south of the border.
“How ‘bout it, California? Oregon? Washington? We’ve got geography in common,” said May, adding that British Columbians are already comfortable with our southern neighbours in the Cascadia region. “This is what we’ve got for you: Free healthcare, universal, free healthcare. No more one-year-olds who suddenly fall off the Medicaid list and their parents are on the news because they’re trying to do a GoFundMe, because they’re trying to get their daughter to a doctor,” she said.