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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Indeed! Precisely why I say cut them loose.
I do find it more interesting myself. IMO the aspects that make it most interesting are the rouge (missed field goal is a live ball) and the 20-second play clock.
I like the Cuber Part.
Give the blue states to Canada. One big socialist healthcare paradise until the money runs out.
What kind of impact would this plan have on the availability and price of real maple syrup?
Canaduh? Eh?
America says FK nohh.
Doesn't that stuff keep? I have but a few decades to go and could easily lay in a lifetime supply.
No that I think of it, Canada just seems uninteresting.
I mean, except for Whistler I can’t think of a reason to go.
I’d rather go to Mexico and points south of there.
Canada doesn’t have anything that America already has on a much bigger scale.
Not putting Canada down but, you should at least have a holiday we celebrate in America or a really nice national anthem that is stirring.
All your best entertainers leave and come to America.
Your politicians come to to America for medical care.
I will say you have something we’d like which is your oil. Alas our monkey rained representatives have deemed it best you sell to China.
I think we shouldn’t merge so much as you wouldbbe acquired in a hostile take over but, that would ruin our stars and stripes.
Yuh ain’t worth that, it or anything else.
Yer nice enough people but, you stay on your side of the border and we’ll come visit occasionally.
If that happens, expect the game of Curling to become as popular as Soccer. Watching Curling on TV was baffling and amusing. A broom sweeps a flat round dick over the ice, sort of like hockey, but faster and different rules. It think Curling is from the Scots.
You’re forgetting Hockey, the oil industry in Alberta and the various other Ski Resorts/Areas spread across BC and Alberta.
Vermont maple syrup is a quarter of a degree heavier in density than other varieties, Bushee noted. .
“It’s hard to be involved in a discussion if the discussion takes place before you know about it,” Bushee said. “IMSI wants this change, but it actually isn’t in the best interest of the producers of this state [to] be lowering of our high standards to meet the rest.”"
Here's my take: Who wants Canada, a giant socialist drain on tax dollars? The poor sods are already in a death spiral and don't even realize it because their media is so stunted. Don't look at the Federal numbers, look at the provincial numbers, where the effects of 50 years of socialist medicine have taken a heavy toll on budgets. Forty-five percent of Ontario's annual budget is consumed by medicare alone, without including their fat pensions. With costs increasing each year in the double digits, you do the exponential math. Ontario has maybe 5 years to Armageddon.
To top it off, the eastern provinces are West Virginia poor, the Quebeckers are separatist blood-racists, the far North is a write-off, British California is full of drug addicts and maryjane growers.... it would seem that Alberta/Saskatchewan are the only keepers with their beef, oil and grain.
If you want my opinion.....Bad idea, unless you take the pick of the litter.
I think I only forgot hockey.
Why else would anyone go to Whistler if not for snowboarding and chicks?
I mentioned the oil is going to China, erhthat really big motherload we want.
We would need to lose SF and LA, Seattle, Denver, Las Vegas, Austin, Boulder and and Portland. Texas North to the Hudson Bay, Texas East to the Atlantic, plus the decent parts of CA, Washington and Oregon would be a pretty great nation. Photo ID and purple ink on the finger for voting.
But border control would be expensive. We’d hosts of illegal metrosexuals sneaking across the border looking for work.
Problem is that Free Trade Communists will use such a move to add Mexico into the mix....like with NAFTA and North American Union
Love Canada, eh, but we are better off as two good neighbors. I can’t see what would be in it for either country.
>>As long as Vancouver and environs are transferred to China, I’m down with the revisions to The Plan.
Nah. We keep that (and Seattle and Portland) and just relocate the neo-hippies to Vermont.
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