Canadians did something very stupid and elected an idiot liberal to run their country last week. (Not that that ever happens in this country …)

That first sentence is not entirely correct. The Liberal Party won the parliamentary election with about 40 percent of the vote. The new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, was elected only by the voters in his parliamentary district. (It would be like maybe-he’ll-be-elected-Speaker Paul Ryan becoming president despite getting the votes of only a majority of Wisconsin’s First Congressional District.) So almost no Canadians voted for Trudeau but are getting him, and most Canadian voters didn’t vote for Liberals but are getting them. Parliamentary government is a dictatorship of the majority party.

Trudeau of course will be a disaster, which will be the problem of Canadians as well as non-Obamabot Americans. Once we are rid of Obama, and assuming we don’t replace him with something at least as bad (see Hillary and Sanders, Comrade), I have a response.

Traditionally Canadians west of Ontario have been more conservative than those in Ontario (imagine Washington, D.C., as a huge state). Quebec, of course, thinks it’s France. If we had an actual conservative president, we should invite, from east to west, Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia to join their southern (and northern in the case of Alaska), conservative neighbors. For that matter, even the Maritime Provinces might be interested, though they’re probably as liberal as our Northeast.