Amid repeated pledges by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump to annex Canada, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has jokingly resurrected a decades-old proposal for British Columbia to form Cascadia, an independent nation with the Pacific Northwest states of Oregon and Washington.

She first suggested California join Canada, before mentioning Cascadia.

“You think we want to be the 51st state? Nah. Maybe California would like to be the 11th province. How about it? California, Oregon, Washington,” she said.

“Have we got a deal for you; free health care. Universal free health care. No more one-year-olds who suddenly fall off the Medicaid list and their parents are in the news because they’re trying to do a GoFundMe to get their daughter to a doctor,” May told a Parliament Hill press availability last week.

She also pledged “safer streets,” “strict gun laws” and free abortions, and said if the United States allowed the secession of its West Coast it would “get rid of all these states that always vote democrat.”

The idea of an independent “Cascadia” has been dwelling on the fringes of B.C. politics for decades, with the Cascadia flag being a not-uncommon sight for car bumpers on both sides of the border.