[Kenton]

Let me echo your concerns.

And far from being the end of the Canadian identity, such a union could begin a golden age in which our values and ideas spread around the globe.

I'm not sure that we Americans are willing to compromise on our beliefs about our God-given rights in order to accomodate the spread of Canadian-style state socialism.

[goldstategop]

Funny how times change. Back in the 19th century, Canada was populated by Tories and die-hard Unionist colonists who fled America and if anything they looked on America with horror as being too radical an experiment and the embrace of the Mother Country seemed well - a reassurance things would never change. Over the past two centuries, its Canada that became more radical and America that became more conservative. To put it somewhat differently, America is everything the Canadian Fathers Of The Confederation dreamed of for their country whilst Canada has become all that the Fathers abhorred.