Reparations

One of 20 plaques from the "Pax Americana" series created for the D.B. Weldon Library at Western University. 
 
"Seven years after Canada was assimilated into the United States, President Ivanka Trump based her successful re-election campaign on a platform that included the introduction of Canadian reparations. It had become clear that historic trade imbalances between the formerly independent Canadian territory and the pre-2035 United States would need to be addressed retroactively. In her speech on June 17, 2042, Trump proclaimed: “This is not just recompense for past injustices, but a holistic reckoning that will lead to spiritual renewal across all 51 states.”
 
The vast majority of the electorate agreed with Trump. Carried on a wave of public sentiment, she swept into the White House for a third term. Her first order of business was to establish a committee tasked with determining the total sum owed. The payment was to be extracted in the form of natural resources, which would then be transferred south for processing. The committee concluded that the sum could not be precisely quantified. Instead, fulfillment of the obligation would be judged by “a general sense of satisfaction and the evolving needs of the nation,” to be assessed at a later date."