WI: U.S. Constitution includes Canadian Invitation?

The Articles of Confederation contain this:
Article XI. Canada acceding to this confederation, and adjoining in the measures of the united States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine States.

What if the Constitution kept the invitation?
Will there be any impact from everyone knowing an open invitation is out there?
Would Canada or any part of it every take advantage of it?

An impact I can see would be free/slave state discussions, even an extremely remote possibility Canada could just come in and upset the balance would worry the slave states.
 

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Canada was not at this time entitled to responsible government. Any attempts to exchange sovereignty to another country will be perceived as an act of rebellion, and thus crushed.
 
"Canada" didn't exist yet, there was only the British colony of Quebec, mostly-Francophone. Now, what is plausible is Nova Scotia (consisting of the modern-day provinces of New Brunswick, PEI, and Nova Scotia) joining the US, as they were the only other part of British North America that seriously considered being the fourteenth state.
 
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