While Canada seems very similar to America, there are some big differences. One of which has to do with free speech.
Canada has censored radio programming, such as Dr. Dobson from Focus on the Family, due to alleged hate speech against homosexuality. They have hate speech laws which are far stricter than any laws or policies in America on the subject. How will such differences in laws be reconciled?
There are other differences, such as tax laws. I understand that home mortgage interest is not deductible for income tax purposes in Canada, for example. I’m sure that there are other tax law differences as well.
And what of healthcare? With Obamacare, we still have the framework of a privately run healthcare system, with doctors as independent businessmen and women, whereas Canada has full blown socialized medicine. How to reconcile that will be a challenge.
Lots of areas of life would have to be reconciled.
I wonder if Canada fears being swallowed up by the U.S. if this happened. Rather than a merger of equals, would Canada simply be submerged????
And they say eh and aboot.
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.