The Gazette (Montreal) publishes article on U.S. presidential candidate Richard Grayson's plan to annex Canada

Today, Friday, January 6, 1984, The Gazette (Montreal) published a column by Thomas Schnurmacher, "Festivities are over for the season but parties live on," that has an item about presidential candidate Richard Grayson's proposal that the U.S. annex Canada.

If Richard Grayson is elected president of the U.S., we're in for a lot changes.

Thirty-two-year-old Grayson, who is an unemployed teacher, is promising to annex Canada to the U.S. He has gone so far as to file the "Committee for U.S.to Annex Canada" as a supporting group with the Federal Election Commission.

Grayson's Canadian representative is Torontonian Crad Kilodney, the well-known author of such books as Sex Slaves of the AstroMutants and Terminal Ward.

Says Grayson, "We will have more land .. . cheaper universities cheap hydroelectric power from Ontario and Canada; and we won't need to beg somebody to let us test the Cruise missile in Alberta."

"If the annexation is done very quietly, no one in Canada will notice. The U.S. Army could 'invade' dressed in grey suits and disguised as bankers."

According to Grayson, the present Canadian government could continue "in the form of a TV show on cable television. And the RCMP's only function would be to wear the red uniforms, sit on their horses in front of Parliament and pose for pictures."

We could buy cheap sheets at the Pyramid Mall in Plattsburgh without paying customs duty and the Genie Awards might disappear. Maybe it's not such a bad idea after all.