VICTORIA — A British Columbia legislator says he went from "disappointed" to "enraged" after receiving a pitch from a Republican state senator for Canada's four western provinces to join the United States.

Brennan Day, with the Opposition B.C. Conservative Party, says his office had to first confirm the authenticity of the "nonsense" letter from Maine Sen. Joseph Martin after receiving it last week.

He says the most shocking part of the letter was its attack on Canadian institutions, like the Charter of Rights, federalism, multiculturalism, and the dismissal of those cornerstones as "political baggage."

Day says Martin needs to look at "how heavy his luggage" is, and his party is "hauling around wheeled trunks" of baggage in the United States where the Constitution is “being torn up by

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