Gotcha. Re-read it.
My view — based on snippets that I have read here and there — is that the Powers That Be want to construct an Über-State over the next twenty years that will consist of Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
The Über-State must have, in order to really work, complete freedom of movement of its people across all of its internal borders; no internal trade barriers; a common currency; common commercial/civil laws and, eventually, in essence (at least) a common government.
Mexico will contribute an infinite supply of cheap labor and manufacturing; Canada will contribute Oil (from the enormous world-class oil shale deposits beginning to come online that rival Saudi Arabia); and the United States will contribute the Managerial Class, technology, and capital that will operate the whole thing.
Why?
To effectively compete against the Rising China and to keep the Americas the dominant military and economic power in the world through the 21st and well into the 22nd centuries.
This coming Über-State will have, within twenty years, half a billion people; an enormous and fast-growing internal market (a GDP of $20-trillion or about 1/3 or so of the entire world); and, of course, the world’s largest and most capable military.
I believe that *That* is what it is all about. It actually makes sense from a “geopolitical” point of view.
I am *not* saying that I agree with it - just that it makes sense from a certain point of view.