NomadicSky
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The short lived West Indies Federation sought to one day become a province of Canada. What if it had?
How can the Turks and Caicos Islands both be a part of the Jamaica province and the Leeward Islands province??
I don't know, can Canada even absorb the WIF? A large country like the U.S. can absorb an extra 3 and a half million people easily enough, but for Canada, it would be a 20% increase in its population, of people not naturally Canadian living far from the Canadian Center. It would be like the U.S. annexing Japan.
Hmmm. That is an interesting question. If it happened, it would certainly be good for the snowbirds who go down to Florida every year.
What time period are we talking here?
BTW, here's another factor: during the 1950s/1960s, there was a lot of immigration to Britain from the Caribbean. How would this change if the WIF were part of Canada?
They'd immigrate here instead of to Britain.
Canada would have to deal with the modern day problems that effect most of those nations, especially drugs.