[goldstategop]

I can see a good case for annexing the Western Canadian provinces. Eastern Canada is a cesspool of socialism and Quebec is unassimilable. The notion of a U.S-Canada merger for the forseeable future, is a pipe dream.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

NO !
We've already got plenty of people here who talk funny.

[Commiewatcher]

"I can see a good case for annexing the Western Canadian provinces."

You bet. Let's trade most of New England for Alberta, BC, the Yukon, and NWT. As an extra added bonus we could throw in New York and start them off with their very own Queen.

Sounds like a deal to me.

[billorites]

"Eastern Canada is a cesspool of socialism"

Oh, I don't know.

I think of the Maritimes as being sort of like West Virginia.

Only better educated, but with a lower standard of living.

[Kenton]

Let me echo your concerns.

And far from being the end of the Canadian identity, such a union could begin a golden age in which our values and ideas spread around the globe.

I'm not sure that we Americans are willing to compromise on our beliefs about our God-given rights in order to accomodate the spread of Canadian-style state socialism.