Canada does not want to be us.
This kind of “dot connecting” is as far-fetched as the logic that “truthers” use to claim that Bush knew/caused 9/11.
Canada is by far our largest trading partner, but they like being Canadians. As a matter of fact, many like being French-speaking Quebecers. This kind of hysteria over imagined loss of American power is truly sophomoric.
During the NAFTA debates in the ‘90s, I was living in Canada, and their greatest fear was to be swallowed up by America. They thought we would just take all of their natural resources which are the source of their wealth.When I listened to American talk radio and heard Americans worry about being bested by Canadian negotiators I got so frustrated. Why don’t Americans see and believe in the stupendous power of the American market? Is it a result of 35 or more years of media and our educational system selling the idea that America is weak when not evil or wrong?
yeah, i’m aware of that.
many of the western canadian snow birds land in socal during the winter. i said many. and i’ve had many opp’s to talk to them and what you say is correct.
they drive like farmers!
http://www.rabble.ca/about_us/bios.shtml?x=830
Murray Dobbin
Vancouver
Columnist
Murray Dobbin, Vancouver based, has been a journalist, broadcaster, author and social activist for over thirty five years. A board member and researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, he has written five studies for the centre including an expose of charter schools and ten myths about the Canadian tax system. He has been a columnist for the Financial Post and Winnipeg Free Press, contributes to the Globe and Mail and other Canadian dailies and now writes a column for the Vancouver on-line paper The Tyee, which is reprinted in rabble.
He has also prepared radio documentaries for the CBC Radio’s Ideas series on subjects including taxes, human rights and the right-wing remaking of New Zealand.
Murray has been involved in many social movements over the years and is a past executive board member of the Council of Canadians. He is a policy analyst for the Council and authored their “Ziplocking North
America: Can Canada survive continental integration?” He has written five books, three of them critical profiles of Canadian politicians. His latest book, Paul Martin: CEO for Canada? exposes Martin’s corporate agenda for the country. He was the first to publish books on Preston Manning and Kim Campbell. His 1998 book, The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen - Democracy under the rule of Big Business, has been described as a citizens’ guide to globalization.
Murray is also well known as a public speaker, addressing union and NGO conventions and educational conferences. Most recently he has focussed on the Bay Street initiative called deep integration, the annexation of Canada, and on the threat to public services posed by public private partnerships (P3s). He can be reached at mdobbin@telus.net.
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What this article does not mention is that Murray Dobbin is anti-business, anti-conservative and has authored books against various leaders of the Conservative Party for years.
Why do Freepers want to ally themselves with such a radical? I think it is irrational to think that Canada is a threat to the United States. I think that greater ‘harmonization’ of border crossing rules and surveillance and sharing of concerns about radical Islamists in either country is a great idea.