[Dog Gone]

As a practical matter, it would be hard to do. How would we address Social Security for Albertans? There are a million other questions just like that.

We like Alberta's oil and conservative spirit, but we might be far better off with it as an independent but friendly ally.

[longtermmemmory]

http://www.unitednorthamerica.org answers some of the questions regarding medicine and ss programs.

This is not the first time this issue has been contemplated and canadians experts did a meeting in the late 1990's and came to the conclusion that canada merging into the USA was inevitable. (1 to 2 hundred years max)