Diane Francis’ plan to merge Canada and the United States has many, many problems

National Post ^ | September 28, 2013 | Jonathan Kay

[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.

[castlegreyskull]

What your saying, we should just trade states and cities like baseball cards. It might work.

[Dartman]

Who wants Canada, a giant socialist drain on tax dollars?

And Canada owes the Communist Chinese exactly how many trillions of dollars ...?

[DaveA37]

If we could get rid of odumbo and the demodummies, I would gladly join the U.s and Canada. There are good and bad in both countries and right now, it seems the U.S., under the odumbo administration has more of the “bad” than the good.

[Savage Beast]

"But border control would be expensive."

Expensive but worth it.

Many would volunteer.