Every once in a while – typically in the depths of winter a Canadian politician suggests that Canada should annex the Turks and Caicos Islands, a pair of small island chains 600 miles (970 km) southeast of Miami that have a total of 30,000 residents. With the British Overseas Territory in the midst of a corruption crisis, the British government has imposed direct rule.
Slate.com examines this action and notes that it is unlike to spread to Canada no matter how rapidly Canadian minority Parliament fall.