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Razorguns
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'bout freakin' time. So all the old farts don't have to keep runnin' to Florida to escape the snow:
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114376,00.html
Canada could soon have tropical weather, sunny beaches and palm trees.
Peter Goldring (search), a Conservative member of Parliament, is resurrecting an old idea — that the Turks and Caicos Islands (search) join the land of the Mountie, ice hockey and Bob and Doug McKenzie.
"I'd like it to be the 11th province," Goldring told the Canadian Press wire service. "It would be a Canadian province at the gateway to the Caribbean."
The islands are a British overseas territory at the southeastern end of the Bahamas chain, just north of Haiti in the Atlantic Ocean, with a population of about 20,000.
Turks and Caicos Deputy Director of Tourism Ralph Higgs liked the idea.
"We will talk and come up with something that is beneficial to both parties," Higgs said. "It will be, in the final analysis, for the leaders of our countries to decide the best form for that relationship, whether it's provincial status, free association or overseas territory."
The Turks and Caicos first proposed joining Canada about 20 years ago, after independence from Britain was put on hold, but the idea was quashed by fears the move would be too expensive and could lead to racial tension between black islanders and white Canadians.
Goldring, who has enlisted the support of prominent businessmen and politicians, dismissed those concerns.
"The world is very much different now," he told the Canadian Press. "There's a lot of disappointment Canada didn't see the light 20 years ago. We want to do it right this time."
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114376,00.html
Canada could soon have tropical weather, sunny beaches and palm trees.
Peter Goldring (search), a Conservative member of Parliament, is resurrecting an old idea — that the Turks and Caicos Islands (search) join the land of the Mountie, ice hockey and Bob and Doug McKenzie.
"I'd like it to be the 11th province," Goldring told the Canadian Press wire service. "It would be a Canadian province at the gateway to the Caribbean."
The islands are a British overseas territory at the southeastern end of the Bahamas chain, just north of Haiti in the Atlantic Ocean, with a population of about 20,000.
Turks and Caicos Deputy Director of Tourism Ralph Higgs liked the idea.
"We will talk and come up with something that is beneficial to both parties," Higgs said. "It will be, in the final analysis, for the leaders of our countries to decide the best form for that relationship, whether it's provincial status, free association or overseas territory."
The Turks and Caicos first proposed joining Canada about 20 years ago, after independence from Britain was put on hold, but the idea was quashed by fears the move would be too expensive and could lead to racial tension between black islanders and white Canadians.
Goldring, who has enlisted the support of prominent businessmen and politicians, dismissed those concerns.
"The world is very much different now," he told the Canadian Press. "There's a lot of disappointment Canada didn't see the light 20 years ago. We want to do it right this time."
