Court File Number: 2026-MNITOBA-001

Applicant: The Province of Manitoba

Section 1: Income Declaration

I/We declare the following financial capacity to support the child:

Court File Number: 2026-MNITOBA-001

Between:

Placing Party: The United States of America (current guardian - consent not yet obtained)

Receiving Party: The Province of Manitoba

Child: The State of Minnesota

Terms of Placement:

FORM AA-3: Notice of Intent to Receive a Child for Adoption

Court File Number: 2026-MNITOBA-001

Court of King's Bench (Family Division)

Judicial Centre: Winnipeg

Applicant(s):

          The Province of Manitoba ("Friendly Manitoba" / "Land of 100,000 Lakes")

Address for Service:

Manitoba Legislative Building

450 Broadway

Winnipeg, MB R3C 0V8

friendship@manitoba.ca

The following are character references in support of the adoption of the great state of Minnesota by the Province of Alberta.  Or character references that are completely ambivalent to the proposal.  Or buried in bureaucratic paperwork.  Either way, we are including them.

PROVINCE OF SASKATCHEWAN

"Land of Living Skies"

Relationship to Applicant: Interdependent Partner / Eastern Neighbor / The One Who Stayed

TO THE HONOURABLE COURT OF KING'S BENCH OF ALBERTA:

I, the Province of Saskatchewan, make this reference freely and without compensation, though I do note that Alberta still owes me for that time in 1947 when their survey team "accidentally" moved three fence posts onto my side of the fourth meridian.

ACCESS AGREEMENT

In the Matter of the Adoption of Texas by Alberta

Court File No. 2026-SALBERTA-001

THIS ACCESS AGREEMENT is made as of the 23rd day of January, 2026

BETWEEN:

THE PROVINCE OF ALBERTA (hereinafter "the Custodial Parent" or "Alberta")

AND:

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (hereinafter "the Non-Custodial Parent" or "the USA")

WITH RESPECT TO:

EXHIBIT A

AGREEMENT FOR CONSIDERATION

In the Matter of the Adoption of Texas by Alberta

Court File No. 2026-SALBERTA-001

THIS AGREEMENT is made as of the 23rd day of January, 2026

BETWEEN:

THE PROVINCE OF ALBERTA (hereinafter "the Adoptive Parent" or "Alberta")

• A responsible adult jurisdiction of 120 years
• Acting through its citizens in good faith and mild exasperation

AND:

Now that the constitutional framework is settled (more or less), we turn to the matter that will define our daily lives far more than tax policy or pipeline routes: what do we eat?

South Alberta inherits two of North America's most distinctive food cultures—and the question before us is not whether to choose between them, but how to honor both while creating something genuinely new.

THE TEXAS TRADITION

Cultural Exchange Program

Learning to Be Neighbors (Or: Do Y'all Say 'Eh'?)

We've debated the hard stuff—healthcare systems, tax policy, firearms law, where to put the capital and whose face goes on the money. Those conversations will continue, probably forever, because that's what democracies do.

But nations aren't built on policy papers. They're built on shared stories, common rituals, mutual recognition, and the thousand small moments where someone from there and someone from here realize they're not so different after all.

In the Matter of the Adoption of Texas by Alberta: A Brief on Impossible Jurisprudence

Let's be clear from the outset: there is no legal mechanism for this to happen.

The Canadian Constitution does not contemplate acquiring American states. The United States Constitution does not permit states to join foreign nations. International law does not recognize satirical civic movements as legitimate governmental actors. No court on Earth has jurisdiction to grant what we're about to ask for.

And yet.