Piece of cake!......once you get by 535 hard core self anointed dictators starved for hard earned labor to buy votes in Washington DC.
Canada got lucky. The FTA with the US really helped our economy. Even the liberals who were in charge in the 1990's realized that unlimited deficit spending was unsustainable.
Canada got real lucky when conservative forces aligned themselves and Harper was elected with a parliamentary majority. Canada got lucky again with a couple of brilliant Bank of Canada governors who understood what to do.
Under reasonable leadership, a country like Canada, with tremendous physical resources and entry to the biggest consumer market in the world cannot help but succeed.
I wish the US similar luck.