[Heartofsong83]

Interesting idea, but with several question marks:

1) Port security will need to be beefed up as a result, as well as airport security. There wouldn't be any real land borders to secure now, except for a tiny southern border between Mexico and Central America.

2) Good luck finding support in Quebec...the land of anti-Americanism...unless, they become an isolated landmass in an otherwise free continent

3) Will the borders be completely unguarded as a result? That would be interesting to see...it would only work if port and airport security is beefed up.

Overall, it would be a boon for trade, but other things would need to be done.

[hedgetrimmer]

Overall, it would be a boon for trade

Like trade in illegal labor? Because they are planning for illegal labor to flow just as easily as "trade".

[dljordan]

Don't care much for sovreignity then do you? I don't think it would be "interesting" at all to merge with Mexico. Corruption, crime, drugs, disease is not what we want more of. The only people to benefit are the financial and political elites and they really don't give a crap about the rest of us.

[Squire Eaton]

It has been my experience that the remark about Quebec being "anti American", is about far from the truth as one could get. Quebec certainly has had trouble getting along because of its racial difficulties among its own citizens but anti Americanism has nothing to do with this. Historically, continuing until today,relationships with Quebec and the United States have been friendly. What problems there have been have been raised by Americans not the other way around. Thousands of Qubecians have immigrated to America. New England's mill towns could never had the prosperity they had in the industrial age without the help of these workers from Canada. I am not French Canadian by the way. My ethnic background is about as English as one could get. I certainly have no animosity toward French Quebec and I have never felt they did against me either.

Squire Eaton