Do Canadians broadly want Canada to become the 51st U.S. state?

The proposal was real, but polling showed overwhelming Canadian opposition to joining the United States.

Canadian public opinion has been overwhelmingly opposed to becoming part of the United States. Angus Reid reported a 90% no / 10% yes split in January 2025. Later peer-reviewed research examining Canadian attitudes around the 2025 tariff dispute found annexation support below 10%. A real U.S. political proposal therefore should not be confused with Canadian democratic consent.

No. The idea of Canadian statehood was genuinely promoted by Donald Trump and discussed in U.S. politics, but Canadian support was small. An Angus Reid poll in January 2025 found 90% of Canadians would vote against joining the United States and 10% would vote in favour; later research also found support below 10%.

Trump repeatedly raised the possibility of Canada becoming the 51st state, so the political pressure and rhetoric were real. A minority of Canadians also expressed support. In the January 2025 Angus Reid survey, 10% said they would vote for Canada to join the United States; support was higher in Alberta at 18% and among people who had voted Conservative in 2021 at 20%.

The claim turns the existence of a real proposal and a measurable minority of supporters into an assertion of broad Canadian consent. The same Angus Reid poll found 90% would vote against statehood, including majorities in every region and political group measured. Subsequent academic survey research likewise placed annexation support below 10%, reinforcing that this was a fringe or minority position rather than a national preference.

This claim goes directly to Canadian sovereignty and democratic consent. It can make political pressure from the United States appear more popular or inevitable inside Canada than the evidence supports.

The September 7 map shows continued presidential annexation imagery, but it contained no explanatory text and does not establish a formal U.S. annexation policy or any change in Canadian public opinion. No new national polling located in this review materially changes the existing support estimate.

Repeated, methodologically sound national polling showing majority Canadian support for becoming a U.S. state—and ideally corresponding electoral or referendum evidence—would materially change this assessment. Small shifts in minority support would change the numbers but not the current conclusion.

Direct Jan. 6, 2025 Truth Social post by Donald Trump stating that many Canadians 'LOVE' the idea of becoming the 51st state.

Some Canadians support joining the United States — Supported Public polling has found support above zero and sometimes in the teens or twenties depending on wording/timing — Supported A majority of Canadians broadly want Canada to become the 51st state — Contradicted by available polling Trump's statement that many Canadians 'love' the idea can be treated as representative of Canadian public opinion — Misleading

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Fact check: Most Canadians do not want Canada to become the 51st U.S. state, despite repeated claims suggesting otherwise.