Canada Ping!
Posted on 09/28/2013 7:39:36 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Veteran National Post columnist Diane Francis has written 10 books. Merger of the Century: Why Canada and America Should Become One Country is easily her most ambitious.
Perhaps a little too ambitious, many readers might conclude.
It is also, in a way, her most personal. As an American-born dual citizen, Ms. Francis writes passionately about the many historical and cultural ties that bind her ancestral and adopted countries. Merger of the Century makes the case for erasing the formal distinction between the two entirely. “After all, we’re both melting-pot societies,” she says. So why not turn the whole continent north of the Rio Grande into the world’s biggest pot?
Postmedia NewsDiane Francis: “If Canada is going to be the target of a creeping takeover from a big player, we may as well manage the process.” But Merger of the Century is not just a stew of touchy-feely geopolitical metaphors: Ms. Francis is a business writer, and her book is full of numbers.
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Please, no misunderstandings, I have great respect for Canadians and their support of America, but Quebec......
No. It's a gift.
She’s way behind george bush and the other globalists
As Canada becomes more economically free, and America becomes less so, I’d like Canada to remain a distinct country so I have a place where I can escape in a few years.
I’d move to the Lake Louise area in a heartbeat if I could.
So why not turn the whole continent north of the Rio Grande into the world’s biggest pot?
What she means:
So why not turn the whole continent north of the Rio Grande into the world’s biggest toilet?
LOVE your graphic map.
wait I just thought of another problem, if we merged we would have nowhere to send Jim Carrey back to!
Ooops, almost forgot--and MUCH better hockey teams.
The Canadians will never, ever go for that.
He's a pimp.
THANK you Vito Corleone!
I’m told that Canadian football is a technically better game and more enjoyable to watch.
I can't tell the difference. I was told that the differences were there, but only really noticed by a REAL football fan, USA and Canada.
Besides, who cares? :o)
As long as Vancouver and environs are transferred to China, I'm down with the revisions to The Plan.
Canada Ping!
It’s a Good Thing that Pro football takes place on Sundays to limit the number of skiers in line at the lifts.
I don'new. What dooo you dooo wit Key-beck? I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay.
I sleep all night and I work all day.
I cut down trees. I wear high heels,
Suspendies, and a bra.
I wish I'd been a girlie,
Just like my dear Papa.
He's a lumberjack, and he's okay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.
Merge it with Louisiana?
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