AHC:Make canada larger than the United States

Canada is only larger in area if you count water.

Except you have to NOT count Canada's water, but DO count US water around Guam, American Samoa, etc. Double standard much? At least Canada's water is essentially all on the North American continental shelf, unlike the water the US is claiming.
 
It also requires using CIA figures, not Encyclopedia Britannica figures.

Doesn't really matter whose figures you use, Canada is not "considerably" larger than the United States. Especially when you consider we're talking about two countries that are both pushing 10 million sq. km in area.
 
Texas is not admitted as a new state because of Northern opposition. Eventually looks to Britain for protection. Britain has a renewed stake in North America and the Monroe Doctrine is seen as an empty theat/promise.

Polk overplays his hand and gets walloped in a two front war against Mexico and Britain. Bye bye North West. Perfidious Albion makes war on its ally andmakes sure it takes California first. The US is surrounded by a ring of pink.

Canada confederates. British Columbia and Cascadia join. British California joins. Finally Texas. Make the Sandwich Islands a Canadian Protectorate after a handover from the mother country.

The Civil War (and one will come) is trickier because the north has lost a lot of mineral wealth out west and the south has an open border with a large and prosperious province of British Texas...
 
Britain wins the war of 1812, grabs some territory in the old Northwest and sets the Missouri River as the new border in the west and a few adjustments in the East. Britain takes a harder stand against America when she intervenes in Florida against Spain, but when the Spanish Empire implodes Britain and America patch things up and divvy up a bunch of North America. America winds up with Texas and Florida while Britain grabs California. The two lived happily ever after.

Even this monstrous Canada might still not be on par with the United States.
 
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