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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America please DO NOT even consider this absurd proposition. Too many lefties up here. Especially in Quebec and Ontario. Canada is alot of things but not an addition to the US. There is no 2nd amendment up here and free speech is what progressives thinks it is. Stay as far away from this idea as possible.
If PEI gets two senators, Hamilton County, TN, should get two as weell.
but I REALY like their Generals.
And with all due respect to American FReepers, no thank you!
Form the comment, I’m glad you did.
no Generals? We Love You Guys and Girls!!!
I was just asking, is all.
I think there are real, and serious reasons we are two distinct countries, which should not be ignored.
I at the same time know, there are wider things keeping us together than pulling us apart.
I don’t know about the idea of a join, for many reasons, but it’s interesting anyway.
Thanks for your note.
yep, it is called sent back to schooling. Way ... Way down deep inside.
Here's one American who thinks the U.S. would ruin a lot of good things about Canada.
Is there a Canadian that isn’t a vegan?
May we have your Generals?
Only if you take Quebec, too. LOL.
Just looking for what is needed. Scares some, yes.
Ain’t no way no how that Canada wants what we’ve got. At least not now.
Canadians would have to learn how to spell.
They finally got rid of Justin Bieber.
who cares? They give and they take. Canada do you give?
Canadians are insufferable liberal freaks, well, except for Mark Steyn. They’ve always relied on the US for protection, so they can afford to strut around proclaiming how peaceful they are.
I was at an event with some of them recently who told me they had gotten all the “best” of the US when the draft dodgers moved up there. All they really wanted now was for pot to be legalized thorough out the US so they could start selling their crop from BC. They were also incredibly prissy pro-gay, pro-Islamic Anglophiles. Very strange, and we don’t need them.
I don’t think Canada wants to be US.
And I don’t want to give up the Constitution.
I like the idea that, for both of us, Canadians and Americans, there is a large English-speaking neighbor next door to flee to if things get unbearable where you are. We won’t all fit in Belize.
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