Posted on 04/12/2014 9:30:20 AM PDT by EveningStar
The United States and Canada are far more integrated than most people think. In fact, a merger between the two countries isn't just desirable—it's inevitable.
We share more than just the world's longest border. We share the same values, lifestyles and aspirations. Our societies and economies are becoming similar in significant ways.
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Especially when it means getting Justin Bieber back.
Hope to return to Banff/Lake Louise one day, it’s absolutely beautiful there.
Personally, I'm hoping the United States breaks apart.
You’re right about there being no mortgage-interest deductibility here, in Canada. However, we also don’t have capital gains taxes on the sale of principle residences. In the long run, it pretty much balances out.
You also left out the part where our federal budget is showing a small surplus this year, with bigger ones to come. We’re paying down our (already proportionately much smaller) national debt.
Add in New England, Detroit, Seattle and they keep all of Canada.
Their football rules are not compatible with ours!
Why? It is the only safe foreign country we can visit with out flying.
In some ways it is less foreign the Louisiana but it is the French influence like Quebec.
Why tried that in 1812. They declined the offer.
It's not just immigrants... The company I work for bought a Canadian business, and we had to go to Vancouver, BC, to get them set up with our networking equipment, and set up the VPN linking our sites. At the Canadian customs check-in, I was asked if I was there for business or pleasure, and how long I expected to be there. I told them business, and expected to go on my way. Instead, he wanted to know exactly why I was there, and I told him my company had bought the Canadian company, and I was there to connect them to our network. He went from surly to downright hostile, and he demanded to know why I was sent there, instead of having a Canadian do the work... "Wasn't a Canadian able to do the work?" I answered, "apparently not." I got a really dirty look from the officer, but he stamped my passport and let me through.
Mark
Would this be so that the Queen can make trips over here to visit her subjects???
Mark
Wrong right from the start. Canada was mostly settled by English speakers who wished to continue being subjects of the king. A comparison of the US constitution and the Canadian constitution shows a vast difference in values. And then of course there is the large population of Quebecers, who don't even share the values of the rest of their own countrymen, let alone us. This is nothing but a multiculturalist's pipe dream.
I prefer Canuckistani
yeah right
Canada would be nuts to accept this.... Besides when things are horrible beyond words here, it gives us a place to escape to...
I like my Canadian neighbors ... I really don’t want the filth from the US to infect their country more then it already has
of course, I also like the world having lots of separate countries... it’s makes the job of the one-world people a little tougher
It is possible that British Columbia might get together with Washington, Oregon, and northern California to form Cascadia or Ecotopia, though I wouldn't bet on that either.
For all that, say, New England and the Maritimes have in common, the further you get from the border the less aware New Englanders are of their neighbors to the North. I don't know how things are in Michigan or Montana or the Dakotas, but I'd suppose most Americans don't give much thought to Canada.
Also, nobody wants to be the tail on somebody else's dog. Alberta won't become the rear end of some red state America. I'm not even sure that the Dakotas would go along with Alabama and Mississippi in some new country.
Toronto wouldn't want to give up its importance in Canada to become just another US city, and if Detroit or Cleveland or Buffalo joined Canada, they might come to resent Toronto and Ottawa more than they resent New York and Washington now.
Since when did Canadians start talking about applying for statehood?
Cause that is the only “merger” i ever see working.
Let me know if you do, I’ll drive down and bring the family, I always love meeting real Americans.
Polite on the surface, die hard freedom lovers not far below the surface heh.
Or Canadian nationalized healthcare.
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