Still, perhaps you’re on the right track with the kindler, gentler approach and my campaign needs to be an advertising campaign and not a military one. After all the White House got torched the last time we invaded, and there are probably even more countries (and blue states) that will come to their aid now than in 1812.

You can be at the vanguard of my advertising blitz, taking armfuls of kittens across the border wearing sweaters that say “racphoto.com”. We’ll hit Vancouver and Victoria and Edmonton and Montreal and Calgary and Wetaskiwin too, conquering with cuteness (sharp claws deployed only as a last resort).

I’ll get my wife to knit up a prototype. I’ll also let her put it on Scout, I’m going to stand across the room, or maybe in another room altogether. Or maybe even outside.

*Not wanting to impose my desire for Canadian oversight upon the entire US, as long as Portland is subsumed, I’ll be happy. This may not be the invasion plan you were suggesting.