Posted on 03/23/2014 5:27:20 PM PDT by markomalley
If Diane Francis had her way, the U.S. would share a lot more with its northern neighbor than the Great Lakes, maple syrup and Justin Bieber.
The editor-at-large for Toronto’s National Post argues that a complete merger of Canada and the United States would create a global colossus, add 13 stars to the American flag, eliminate the border and require just a few amendments to the Constitution. But, Ms. Francis acknowledged on a visit to Washington last week, not everyone up north is thrilled with the idea.
“I wanted to attack the Canadian establishment and say, ‘Wake up, there is [a merger] underway, let’s manage it to our benefit,’ and to attack American ignorance about Canada,” she said.
The “thought experiment,” first broached in a book she published late last year, was introduced on the 20th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement as President Obama pushed for much broader trade agreements with the European Union and Asia-Pacific nations.
Ms. Francis envisions a full-on economic and political merger in which Canada’s provinces would become 13 states in the U.S. Quebec would become a commonwealth like Puerto Rico.
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Would we be a Republic or a Parliamentary Monarchy?
I’m sorry, but there are some things about CA that I wouldn’t want, inspite of the fact that Stephen Harper in an immensely better leader than Barack Obama!!
They would get millions of worthless new laws, and we would get stuck with their gun and hate speech laws. It would be the worst of both worlds.
Sacre bleu! Now they have to learn French in D.C.!
cede Neoeuropa to ontario.
still listening.
I have a better idea.
One country should take all the libs, the other all the conservatives and may the best ideology win.
No sense messing up two countries.
Might make for listening.
Judy you are a brave one.
As the old song Says: “The whole world is festering with unhappy souls, the French hate the German, the Germans hate the Poles, Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch, and I don’t like anybody very much.”
If it means Stephen Harper becomes our President, then count me in.
It would be a lot closer relationship if they joimned the European socialist Union!
We have our neighbor to the south mooching off of us and dumping its illiterate, low skilled underclass on us. At least our neighbors to the north are a first world country, has an educated, productive society, and is rich in natural resources. Mexico is already absorbing us and turning parts of our country into a third world dump. Might as well throw in with the Canadians to save ourselves. We’re not doing a good job of taking care of ourselves at the present.
Well I know which country that puts me in!
Why invade Canada?
http://www.invadecanada.us/
And get used to saying "eh."
Hundreds of tweeting Americans want to invade Canada right now
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/20/hundreds-of-tweeting-americans-want-to-invade-canada-right-now/
Aren’t they in way better financial shape than we are? As I recall the rode out the meltdown without insane stimulus and recovered well.
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