Turks and Caicos to join Canada?

[earth_as_one]

I see this as a win-win situation. They get out social systems and tourist dollars, we get their climate. As someone pointed out, how much money do Canadians spend going south each year? Now that at least some of that money would stay in Canada. I think this would be a huge benefit to Canadians and the TCs at the expense of all the other fun in the sun tourist destinations.

 

[#juan]

tamarin

I think there is one thing we can be sure of, and that is that the T & C will never join Canada. At one time, it might have been a good idea for both countries. I doubt now the the islanders would even agree with the move. The world has discovered the two hundred odd miles of white sand beaches. They don't need Canada. The population of the eight islands is less than 25,000 people, if they all came to Toronto you wouldn't notice the difference. The other thing is that the trip to Canada is not going to suddenly become free.

 

[Daz_Hockey]

RE: Turks and Caicos to j

nah, would you swap an EU passport for a Canadian one?

 

[tamarin]

Juan, you could be correct but I look at Toronto's experience with Jamaica. A small minority of the Jamaican migrants have passed Canada's supposedly strict entrance controls. The majority have slipped in as family reunification plan members. Their numbers are large and the pressure on Toronto's social services and policing has been huge.
If the Turks can make it on beaches and tourism all the best to them!

 

[Hamlet]

RE: Turks and Caicos to j

How would the Turks and Caicos join Canada? Well, there are a few possibilities.

(1) They could join as a full province. But, that requires an amendment to the constitution, and the consent of all the provinces. That might be kind of difficult politically. Plus, with the Turks relatively small population, I don't really see that happening.
(2) They could join as a territory. That only requires an act of the federal government. I see that much more plausible.
(3) They could join an existing province. This bypasses the complexities of amending the constitution. However, I believe it still requires the consent of the federal government.

Curiously, in 2004 the government of Nova Scotia passed a resolution inviting the Turks and Caicos Islands to join that province should they ever choose to join Canada.

 

[Pythagoras]

Periodically, I've come across news items of a proposal to have the British Caribbean territory of Turks and Caicos Islands to join Canada. What does everyone think? A good or bad idea? Any problems or difficulties with achieving this?

Or does a Canadian playland in the sun sound too good to be true?

Check the current status of Turks and Caicos. Goverment suspended, pending British investigation of alleged high level corruption in government, associated with land deals etc.

 

[Pythagoras]

WAGES: Read the newspaper from Turks and Caicos. Many jobs advertised at $5 or $5.50 per hour and the cost of groceries is twice what we pay in Canada. No-one with any sense would work for these wages if they could get a much higher guaranteed minimum in Canada. You need to be here to see what it is really like.

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

There have got to be empty islands in the Carib sea owned by a small country that Canada would be able to make a deal with. We could develop it and make it an all Canadian place without an association with another country.

 

[taxslave]

Check the current status of Turks and Caicos. Goverment suspended, pending British investigation of alleged high level corruption in government, associated with land deals etc.

So they already have our form Liberal of government.
I wonder if they will take Canadian Tire dollars at par?