As you probably know, Tim Snyder, his wife, and a third Yale professor are moving to Canada to teach at the University of Toronto. “Why Toronto?”, I asked him. He responded: “I wanted to find a city that reminded me of New Haven.”

Toronto is, of course, an extraordinary city. After the Anchluss, it will be the best large city in the United States by far. Well, maybe not. It will probably have a lot of competition from Vancouver, Montreal, and Calgary. You can see why Canada is looking forward to joining us.

But Snyder told me that his menage a trois (that’s French Canadian for “trio”) is not looking forward to Le Merge (that is not French Canadian for anything: it just looks like it should be), and that they will look for other cities across the world with that New Haven vibe. Believe it or not, there are very few.

By the way, as our president has signed an Executive Order making English THE official language of the United States, it is not clear what the French Canadians are going to do. They don’t want to speak the Official Language. We know that. But life sometimes doesn’t give you a choice, or as they now (but not for long) say, “C’est la vie”.

That last phrase is demonstrative of the problem that lies ahead. The fact that “c’est” and “say” are pronounced the same is a prime example of what drives President Trump both cuckoo and coucou. Yes, big changes are coming to Quebec.

One other change will be that there will be no Quebec. Canada will be only one state. It will be the equivalent of Rhode Island. That seems fair.

One other thing you may have noticed. The race is on between Greenland and Canada. The winner will be the 51st state, the loser the 52nd. Or the other way around. Whichever wins, both will become states. Canada will be our largest, Greenland will be number two. Poor Texas will flip to number 4.

And one more thing about equity. Greenland, with 50,000 people, will get 2 Senators. California and Canada, each with 40,000,000, will also each get 2. So will Caribbea.

What is Caribbea, you ask? That will be our 53rd state, combining Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone (A man, a plan, a canal, Trump), and the Virgin Islands.  There is also a move to combine Washington (now DC, but not for long) with Guam and Mars (to be known as The Great Canal Zone) to be our 54th, but I don’t think that will happen, do you? But we can dream.

Bye…