No. We don’t have a mechanism to add new provinces to Canada. The current provinces are defined by the Constitution and the only way to change our Constitution is to re-write the whole thing and get all ten existing provinces to agree to it (we don’t have a constitutional amendment process.) The best you could do is to be a new territory; those can be created through a simple majority in Parliament.
Provinces have powers outlined in the constitution. Territories don’t. Territories are to the Federal government similar to what municipalities are to the Provincial government. A Province can dissolve a municipal government, merge them, create new ones, and the Federal government can do the same kinds of things with Territories.
This is incorrect, adding new provinces is covered under the 7/50 amendment protocol: a motion must pass in the HoC, Senate, and 7/10 provincial legislatures and those provincial legislatures must represent 50% of the Canadian population.
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Ok but hear me out can you make more provinces out of US defectors???
No. We don’t have a mechanism to add new provinces to Canada. The current provinces are defined by the Constitution and the only way to change our Constitution is to re-write the whole thing and get all ten existing provinces to agree to it (we don’t have a constitutional amendment process.) The best you could do is to be a new territory; those can be created through a simple majority in Parliament.
As somebody that doesn’t quite understand the difference between a province and a territory, can you explain?
Provinces have powers outlined in the constitution. Territories don’t. Territories are to the Federal government similar to what municipalities are to the Provincial government. A Province can dissolve a municipal government, merge them, create new ones, and the Federal government can do the same kinds of things with Territories.
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Provinces have more autonomy and more representation in the Federal government, is the gist of it.
This is incorrect, adding new provinces is covered under the 7/50 amendment protocol: a motion must pass in the HoC, Senate, and 7/10 provincial legislatures and those provincial legislatures must represent 50% of the Canadian population.
The Manitoba act says otherwise.
Also, we do have an amendment process, although it is more convoluted than it used to be when Manitoba became a province.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amendments_to_the_Constitution_of_Canada