BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 11, 2025
President Donald Trump wants to make Canada the 51st state. Instead, I’m offering a deal you can’t refuse. Cooperate with Canada, we’ll let your ships keep using the St. Lawrence River. All we want is northern Maine. Help us draw a straight border from the southeast corner of Quebec to the Maine coast above Bar Harbor. Indigenous peoples of Maine and New Brunswick have shared their lives from the beginning. Acadians of northern Maine will reunite with their cousins in the land that created poutine. Mainers already interact daily with the Irving interests of New Brunswick, who provide most of their gas stations and are Maine’s biggest landowners. The northern Mainers officially joining us can look forward to a safer country, better health care, and longer life expectancy. Yield northern Maine, you’ll feel no pain, Chicago ships will sail again. And for us, it’ll be Mainifest Destiny. ~ Joseph Gough of Ottawa was born in Lubec