[Bouboumaster]

IlovUSandCanada wrote:

@BouBouMaster Why?

Closer, and both contries are already the biggest economy partner of each other.

And we are on the same mass land.


And slapping a member of the infmaous "Tea Party" wouldn't be anymore a diplomatic incident!

[IlovUSandCanada]

@BouBoumaster Oh all right. But I thought that Canadians were fond of complaining of domination by the United States. Wouldn't a union be the ultimate form of that?

[Bouboumaster]

IlovUSandCanada wrote:

@BouBoumaster Oh all right. But I thought that Canadians were fond of complaining of domination by the United States. Wouldn't a union be the ultimate form of that?

I don't see why it would be worse to be with USA that with Great Britain...

[Tman1]

Why would New Zealand and Australia be a part of that union? They're literally 'worlds' apart. That defeats the purpose of a 'union'. Don't see any benefit there. Besides, Canada with strong growth of any G8 country, parity dollar with the U.S, why should Canada join any union? Perhaps some would want to join in in our example and join us?

[IlovUSandCanada]

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Why would New Zealand and Australia be a part of that union? They're literally 'worlds' apart. That defeats the purpose of a 'union'. Don't see any benefit there. Besides, Canada with strong growth of any G8 country, parity dollar with the U.S, why should Canada join any union? Perhaps some would want to join in in our example and join us?

I said before, this is just a mass of theoretical musings.

[IlovUSandCanada]

@BouBouMaster Well ... cause the United States has an economy and population 10 times larger than Canada's while great britain's each are only about 90% greater.

[IlovUSandCanada]

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Why would New Zealand and Australia be a part of that union? They're literally 'worlds' apart. That defeats the purpose of a 'union'. Don't see any benefit there. Besides, Canada with strong growth of any G8 country, parity dollar with the U.S, why should Canada join any union? Perhaps some would want to join in in our example and join us?

Because they are both other members of the white commonwealth.

[tritium]

I took a drive along the border this weekend, and was sorta thinking how the United States can't even manage to secure its southern border, but has turned it's attention to the Canadian border recently... WHY? Do they think they can do a better job up north with 3 times the border to secure??

I think we need to create an NAU with ONLY Canada and the USA. (exclude Mexico)

Canada and the United States share a common currency, economy, language and history. Get rid of the border, and make it like the EU.

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[Brenda]

NO!!! Not the EU. The Benelux. Keep it small. The biggest problem with the EU is that it is too large and needed its own government, apart from the countries own governments. That, and it's a non-equal union.

[Canadian_Mind]

Much like an NAU would be.

I don't mind closer economic integration, but the FTA has to be re-worked to allow true free trade. Basically, it costs nothing to buy something across eachothers borders. No taxes, no tarrifs.

To allow for this though most, if not all, rules and regulations that guide economic activity in both countries would have to be unified or close to unified. Basically both countries work to set target standards that then must be met. A country is welcome to exceed those standards if they so choose, but at the risk of causing economic stagnation.

For instance, the States had more liberal rules regarding banking than Canada did. Yes this allowed their banks to grow faster and make more money then ours, but ultimately ours won out. We all know why. under new rules we might establish standards that, while stricter for US banks than Canadian Banks, might not be as strict as our current rules. As such the US would have to reform their laws in order to meet the standards, while our could stay the same.

Of course, such a process woudl take years, and you'd have to have a very co-operative American President, Congress, and House of Parliment