**FILE** Marc Anthony, with wife Jennifer Lopez, attends a signing ceremony for filmmaking incentive legislation for the U.S. island territory in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, on March 4, 2011. (Associated Press)
Los Angeles Clippers guard Darren Collison (2) goes up for a shot over Minnesota Timberwolves guard J.J. Barea (11), of Puerto Rico, during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game in Minneapolis, Monday, March 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)
Diane Francis, author of Merger of the Century, envisions a full-on economic and political merger in which Canada's provinces would become 13 states in the U.S. Quebec would become a commonwealth like Puerto Rico.