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I'm glad more people are taking notice of this distinction.
Check out this interview that included Greenland’s Minister of Industry and Natural Resources, Naaja Nathanielsen, and Republican Congressman Andy Ogles.
Jumping to the 7 minute mark where Ogles directly speaks about Alberta becoming part of the United States.
This interview was in the context of the "Make Greenland Great Again Act" (H.R. 361), introduced in January 2025 by Rep. Andy Ogles.
Any mention of Greenland is also a mention of the rest of the Inuit Nunaat, what remains of the Canadian territories (now only North of 60), as well as Alberta (split from NWT in 1905), and then Saskatchewan (split from NWT in 1905) and eventually so-called "British Columbia" (the southern part of which was previously claimed by the United States as part of the Oregon territory/Columbia district boundary dispute).
I do not believe the references to the 51'st state relate to the quite recent and ephemeral concept of "Canada" that includes all the land and peoples that the Dominion of Canada governments (Canadian Crown) currently claim jurisdiction over.
The regions claimed by Canada that aren't part of the Laurentian region have always had a precarious tie to what was previously known as the British Province of Canada in 1867 (Upper/Lower Canada and other names used previously). While there were ways to have done the expansion into the Northwestern Territories in a less hostile way, or to have repaired the rifts created by that expansion, that never happened because the Laurentian Consensus (shared identity, values, culture, etc ---not a group of individuals or “elites”) believed their own marketing material that this reparation had already happened.
Specific to the Alberta Crown created in 1905, loyalists to that permanent foreign worker program being willing (some eager) to have their resource extraction subsidiary corporation acquired by a different corporate HQ that might offer a better deal sounds predictable.
