Should Canada and the USA unify?
463087
My opinion is yes.  Canadian Native Americans already have rights of the border, it should be opened up to others too.
259514
No, as Canada is becoming progressively more moderate/conservative (see the election of Steven Harper), it's ties with the US through Bush should only become more friendly.\n\nHeh, unless the US decides to go nuts and bomb everyone.
316442
I think the US and Canada get along quite well, actually.  We are like siblings sometimes.  We squabble over silly things, but when it comes to important things, I think we get along well, or at least agree to disagree.  I am a proud dual citizen, US/Canada and I love both countries very much.  There will always be ignorant people in both countries who verbally put the other down, but there will always be those uneducated, intolerant types.  Luckily, they are not the majority.
893392
Not in your lifetime Sweetheart.  This is one country the US hasn't tried to invade for a couple of hundred years and therefore has no jurisdiction.  Besides Canada has Prime Ministers not Presidents...So don't worry about it...OK?
311762
As an American of Canadian descent, I got both sides of this.  Americans know Canada is our ALLY. No matter what, we share this hemisphere and thankfully we DO enjoy a grudging respect and to certain points....affection for one another. The French were there for us in the beginning, but have looked down their nose at both us AND Canada for a long time. So its basically US and Canada vs. France. We bust on Canada because were basically brothers, freindly jabbing and the occasional fight that gets quashed quickly and were drinkin beer again.
301069
I am Canadian with many relatives in the US.  I have spent 35 years between the two countries and let me tell you, there are many social differences between the two countries.  I could spend the next two hours writing on the subject, but I will try to sum it up quickly and simply.  \n\nThe United Nations examines many cultural and social aspects when they determine their top 50 countries to live in list.\n\nLiteracy, infant mortality, life expectancy, murder rates, corruption, and poverty to list but a few. Using these aspects to measure a country's "status" as it were.  Canada has fallen on the list over the years to Norway, but for most of the 90'S we were #1.  The US was around the 25-30 area.\n\nI point out to my American relatives (all of whom believe that their nation is the best in the world, even though many have never travelled) that their communist neighbour Cuba has a higher standard of living than they do according to the UN.\n\nAs humble as we Canadians like to think we are, we are very proud and grateful that many of the negative social challenges that are ever present in the US don't exist here (at least not on the scale it is in the US).  I don't know one Canadian who would ever want our two nations to merge.\n\nWe have a relatively unknown multi-cultured utopia up here and we would like to keep it that way.
240950
I think we should.  People would then move to where their ideas are held important and are tolerated.  The states that ended up most successful would become models for the others.  Also decentralization would help remove the imperialistic tendencies of the federal government and cause less world wide hatred.
786788
My USA citizen countrymen/women. The USA is a melting pot of many colors and nationalities. I hope all of us would defend each other against outside forces or entities. We should not allow other people to divide us by bringing up issues in the past that they use to stir up past ills. The past is and should remain there, in the past. Issues of today are issues of today. We all had our good and bad pasts, they are over with. Today we should look at each other as AMERICAN compatriots.
241706
would canada count?\n\nwas a colony at one time
773320
Are you aware of the North American Union?\n\nNorth American Union to Replace the USA? \nPresident Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, \nhttp://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=14965
1128520
I couldn't agree more.  I happen to like the Canadians, but their holier than thou attitude and their adherence to uncontrolled multiculturalism is sometimes grating.  And just because they have universal health care doesn't mean it is necessarily better.  For instance, the city of Detroit has more MRI machines than the whole of Canada.  In fact, Canadians flock to cities like Detroit for more immediate access to health care that they would have to wait months for in Canada.  That having been said, I would like to take the best of Canada and the USA and make one large beautiful country.
170158
- May not be...!\n- Because Canada has closer ties with America.\n- Its also fall in belt of Hardline Christian Causes which insult, paralyze, and destabilize the regions of Islamic countries and middle east.\n- So there is very little to hope so.\n----------------
918868
Some of you may think this is a silly question, but it's really not. There is a trend, especially in Europe, for returning more power to states/provinces. Scotland now has its own government that decides most if not all of their domestic affairs. Catalonia in Spain wants independence. A few years ago Quebec came very close to leaving Canada. The fact of the matter is, culturally, the southern part of the U.S. is just really different then the northeast and western parts of the United States. Take a look of a map showing where the "red" states are and the "blue" states. See a trend? Just think about it; wouldn't a lot of you blue state folks be happier joining Canada in some great big socialist experiment?
213661
Yes. We should've taken over Canada and Mexico when we had the chance.  Manifest destiny, baby... BOOYAH!\n\nqutab_afghan: Insha Allah this [grabbing my crotch], douchebag!
297149
Nah. I know tons of people who have dual US-Canadian citizenships. It is ok.
582429
I do not think there are any signs of that. The US federal and States system is so interlinked that that this is very unlikely to happen at all. There are few countries in the world that have as much sense of unity, in my view, as the US
887351
I think we should create a North American common market like Europe has and simply let citizens of the member nations (Canada, USA, Mexico, and other Central American countries) move back and forth freely to work wherever they are needed.\n\nThe ECU is doing this and now its currency, the Euro, is stronger than the dollar.  Nations who used to fight each other now cooperate to build a strong economy.