Now that we've explored the past, why not take a look at the present, and the near future? I’ve compiled a list of the existing groups and organizations that have participated in the Annexation movement during our modern era. Some of them have already collapsed, while others remain nominally active, receiving little updates for the past few years.

 This page is an opportunity to look at some of the courageous efforts which have been deployed by Canadians and Americans to try to raise awareness for this proposition, and it documents them with the available media records that I was able to garner in the course of my online data-mining expeditions.

 I hope you will enjoy discovering these various groups, and that you will be able to visit them to find out more about what they are all about. They offer different perspectives on the same subject, and some have accumulated a frankly astonishing wealth of information for anyone willing to deepen his knowledge of the entire project for a democratic union of our countries.

Personally, I’ve already made up my mind, that this would be an awesome event, not just for North Americans, but for mankind in general. I support the Annexation of Canada to the United States, because I think that together we form an even more significant social organism: The North American social organism.

The Unionest Party was a provincial political party in Saskatchewan, Canada, in the early 1980s, that advocated union between the four western provinces of Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) and the United States.

The party’s name was a contraction of ‘best union’. The party was founded in March 1980 by Dick Collver, a former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan, who resigned from the PC caucus when he announced the formation of his new party.

A few days later, another PC MLA, Dennis Ham, also left the PC caucus to join Collver. (Ham was the brother of Lynda Haverstock, who later became the leader of the Saskatchewan Liberal Party and later lieutenant-governor.)

The Unionest Party was formed at a time when several western separatist parties (such as the Western Canada Concept) were being formed and attracting considerable attention and support because of dissatisfaction with the federal Liberal government.

Collver and Ham formed the legislative caucus of the Unionest Party. The Unionests then qualified as the official third party under the legislative act then in existence. This entitled the Unionests to special perquisites: Collver was to receive an additional $27,000 for office staff expense and an additional $11,000 in extra allowance as Leader of the Third Party. Ham was to receive an additional $16,000 for office expenses and $2,700 in an extra allowance.

Their new party was met with derision, and there was great concern that two “crack pots” were able to obtain funding from the legislative assembly’s budget for their "folly". The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party government of the day introduced and passed retroactive legislation entitled to restrict third party status to a party with at least two sitting members affiliated with a political party that was registered under the Election Act on the day of the last general election.

He claimed this law discriminated against the Unionests on the basis of their political beliefs and took the government to court, but the provincial Court of Appeal disagreed. The Unionest Party soon fizzled, and did not field candidates in the next general election. Collver retired to his ranch in Arizona.

The Expansionist Party is a general-purpose political organization self-describing themselves as "radical center" dedicated to a geographic enlargement of the United States, ultimately to culminate in world union under the Constitution. In other words, they are a globalist group who promote a vision of a World unity forged around the American system of government.

Over the years, this organization has produced a number of interesting articles in the specific context of a Canadian annexation that are relevant to our discussion and can be consulted here.

Quebec's Perspective

Canadian-American Union

Canada As Seven States

Annexation.ca does not endorse the view of unlimited expansionism, and considers any annexation discussions to apply strictly in a bilateral sense between Canada and the USA. However, there is a relevant part of their work that efficiently does provide useful insights in the context of a Canadian annexation!

OntarioUSA.org was a website created by Marcus Mayer, a citizen of Canada and resident of Ontario, dedicated to a single idea that forms it's core focus:

"A formal political union of Ontario with the United States of America, either as a state, self-governing territory or possession."

OntarioUSA.org viewed this proposition as being in the best interest to not only the future of Ontarians but is in the best interest to the future of all Americans as we embark upon the 21st century.

Through utilizing the vast power and broad reaching scope of the internet to its full potential, it aims to provide a valuable information clearinghouse meant to educate, inform and to also bring to the forefront the many benefits that such a monumental political union would bring.  Furthermore, the website explains the many benefits that Ontario would derive from the U.S. as a state, and likewise the many benefits that the U.S. would derive from Ontario as a state. As stated on their website:

"While we do acknowledge that self-governing territorial or possession status in the U.S. is meant as purely a transitional step to reach the ultimate goal of statehood, we do realize that this temporary measure is by no means meant as a panacea.  Under the Constitution of the United States of America, permanent equality for any particular territory inclusive within the U.S. is achieved only through statehood and simply nothing less.  Therefore we strongly maintain that Ontario statehood within the United States of America is our ultimate goal but concede that self-governing territorial or possession status is necessary as a means to an end, but not an end to a means."

This endeavor was not yet a political party, nor was it endorsed by any political party.

Founded in 2000 by Jonathan Wheelwright, United North America is self-described as a non-partisan collective made up of citizens from across the continent whom seek to create bonds and build unity within the framework of the democratic traditions of our common people.

This website has been featured in the Ottawa Citizen, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Citizens Centre Report Magazine, and several radio stations across the continent. Information provided on the UNA website has been used as reference material at several institutions of higher level education, including: Princeton University, the University of Michigan, McGill University, Simon Fraser University, and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

The forums of Annexation.ca are in fact inherited from United North America, I acquired them in extremis when they were about to be removed from that website by their owner. I felt it was important to keep the thousands of discussions about a union of Canada and the USA accessible to the public on the internet.

Since then, many new participants have joined and contributed their unique perspectives to this debate, and the Annexation.ca forums have truly gained a flavor of their own, although discussions from the UNA days are available in the "Archives" section of the Annexation.ca forums.

Parti 51 was a minor political party in the Canadian province of Quebec in the late 1980s. The party proposed the separation of Quebec from Canada in order to seek admission to the United States as the 51st state of that union.

In the 1989 Quebec provincial election, the only election in which it nominated candidates, the party nominated 11 candidates, who won 3,846 votes, or 0.11% of the popular vote in the province.

The party had no success in winning election to the National Assembly of Quebec, and in the spring of 1990, asked the Direction of Elections of Quebec to dissolve the party because it no longer had enough members to form an executive committee.

The party was headed by Serge Talon, from 1989 to 1991, before it was eventually disbanded.