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Billboard promoting Canadian province as 51st U.S. state sparks backlash
A billboard ad in central Alberta promoting the province becoming the 51st U.S. state has sparked some backlash online.The billboard, reportedly in Bowden, reads, "Tell Danielle! Let's Join the USA!" alongside an image of Premier Danielle Smith posing with U.S. President Donald Trump during her visit to the President’s Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida.A website attached to the billboard requests donations for a campaign to "advertise and purchase strategic media partnerships in both Canada & the USA, all designed to facilitate a winning referendum on joining the USA."The website also includes several claims that can be easily debunked.For example, the website suggests Canadians "elect commoners to exercise the Office of the Queen," despite Queen Elizabeth II’s passing in 2022, and another claims that Prime Ministers act as kings and answer to a political group called "the Family Compact," which has been defunct since the mid-1800s — before ...
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