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A truly terrifying idea to me. Canada is already resource exploit-happy as it is and I don't care to test what adding 200 million extra people, many of whom have a tendency to believe that the earth exists solely for human's consmption, will churn out in the name of 'a pretty cool economy, bro'.
Not much..While Canada would no doubt become an economic super power if we incorporated the USA as an 11th province we are happy with the way things are and really arent into the headspace that requires us to seek or need to be the worlds economic super power.
Ya gotta love that bit about "this can be accomplished with American capital, know how and military protection."
To a degree, she is correct. The Alaska Highway was a joint project between the US and Canada, designed to get US troops to Alaska during WWII. To the best of my knowledge, the Americans contributed the lions' share of the money. The important thing to note, though, was that it was a bi-national project, incorporating both US and Canadian engineers, and workers.
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Strange to say the least, the slow but steady progress up there already done on an 'as needed' basis, has managed to be accomplished with none of the above being either offered or required.
I've long held that Canadians are great "makeshifters"; that is, people who can make do with what is available in order to make sure what needs doing, is done. Thus such things as ice roads in the north--not enough traffic to justify proper roads and bridges, but just enough to justify ice roads that get supplies to where they're needed in winter.
To a degree, she is correct. The Alaska Highway was a joint project between the US and Canada, designed to get US troops to Alaska during WWII. To the best of my knowledge, the Americans contributed the lions' share of the money. The important thing to note, though, was that it was a bi-national project, incorporating both US and Canadian engineers, and workers.
I've long held that Canadians are great "makeshifters"; that is, people who can make do with what is available in order to make sure what needs doing, is done. Thus such things as ice roads in the north--not enough traffic to justify proper roads and bridges, but just enough to justify ice roads that get supplies to where they're needed in winter.
Just a comment on the bolded part above. The Alaska Highway was built because America wanted it desperately after Pearl Harbour was bombed. They had actually been wanting it since the 1930's as they wanted a kitty-corner throughway that would bisect all of North America connecting Florida to Alaska. If American had not wanted it so urgently at the time, it would never have been built because Canada had no reason for there to be a highway going through there and were extremely leery and suspicious of giving over so much leeway to a foreign country building anything through Canadian territory. So America did pay more than the lion's share and contributed nearly all of the manpower and equipment. It was built after Pearl Harbour was bombed and the reason given for it being built then was that it was a military emergency and North America was at risk so it was needed to move troops, supplies and equipment to already existing military bases in Alaska. Because Alaska was so close to Russia it would also have been used as a staging area and to help Russia by delivering airplanes, ships and other war supplies to Russia if the need arose, thus bypassing the risk of German submarines in the Atlantic ocean.
It was built mostly by black regiments which is a very interesting story in itself because of the difficulties the blacks from the south had with the northern climate and with the racial obstacles of the time. The following link is really interesting, it features interviews with people who were involved with the project and explains why and how it was built and goes into some of the politics behind it.
It's hard to believe that a Canadian would think that Canada does not have the resources, manpower, capital, and know how to develop her own country. Something does not add up.
The northern US needs to join as new provinces into Canada if nothing else than to save the world from reckless US conservative ideology. A western economy led by Bay Street would be infinitely more responsible than one led by Wall Street.
No thank you.
Canada has everything to lose and the US has everything to gain.
As an American who has lived in Canada.....NO thank you.
The two countries have very different cultures.
It is fine just the way it is......well, we would consider Alberta. Maybe we can just make them honorary Americans.
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