And what about states like Hawaii... i imagine those cultures are much more different than the general Canadian culture.
Hawaii's different?
sorry if that sounds ignorant, but perhaps that would help you see our perspective.
(how would Cdns feel about giving up Queen Elizabeth on the $$$ and replacing it with Washington? Or how the hell would the Queen feel about being replaced?
well, if it was a united North America dollar, that means it is not just Canada using the US dollar.. of course, there's the chance that we just use the US dollar.
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That way we could steal all of their oil and diamonds!
umm, right.. the problem with that statement, is that you would be 'stealing' all of your OWN oil and Diamonds, if the USA took Canada in.
Second, the oil fields in Alberta aren't that big, and they're hella expensive to extract the oil from (this aint no oil pump, it's digging up oil sands, and processing it.
If that's the case what is Canada doing about it? Tap some of those resources and this forum wouldn't even exist
well, we ARE using the oil fields, and making lumber.. Perhaps you should be asking the oil companies involved in the extraction (I wouldn't be surprised if some were American).
Second, if we tap the resources like you want us to, we'll end up being like Japan, with no natural resources, except that we won't even have much of an industry to import raw materials (whatever's left on the planet), and use them to create 'useful' things, becuase currently we don't really have an industry like that (that can be partly blamed on the government).
And you cannot afford to get any of the resources out of the ground.
Actually no, it's more of a companies willingness to do so. why blow it all at once, when you could keep the demand high, and supply low?
speaking of no money to harvest resources, take a look at Russia.. China probably salivates at the growing opportunity to do something about it, especially considering they have the largest ground army in the world..
Its amazing that canada holds themselves in such high regard.
The main thing that canadians think is so great is that they are not like americans.
Many think they are high and mighty, above thoes grovelling idiot americans.
no, Canadians are patriotic (otherwise they're pretty much a typical 'American'), we do not necessarily hold ourselves as better people then you. I'm sure some Canadian would have the same thing to say about an American. sorry, but stereotypes like this are pretty stupid.
Canadians like to poke fun though, because to tell you the truth, many of us are scared of losing our way of life.
Have you ever looked at the I AM CANADIAN beer commercials? they're there just to spark a little patriotism (and subsequently, sell more beer), not to necessarily make fun of Americans.
They rant and rave about their health care, which is actually rather poor compared to the taxes they pay for it. I never waited 6 weeks for a specialist in the states.
first of all, let us see how much your government is paying down your debt? Perhaps if you look at it from a per-capita basis.. I think Canadians are per capita paying more through taxes on debt reduction then Americans.
that is where much of our tax money is going right now, not health care. Health care is undergoing a restructuring (slowly but surely). funding for health care was cut back simply becuase it was getting out of control.
of course, I cannot prove this to you, without looking at statistics for long hours, (hmm.. I have to find a good website for that). I wouldn't be surprised if you were as 'uninformed' as I am.
what do you mean by a 'specialist'? your doctor? or someone like a physiotherapist?
Perhaps again you need to look at things from a different perspective. If you were fairly poor (say you made $15000 US a year), and somehow got a life threatening injury, how long do you think you would be paying off your medical bills?
So take your canadian pride and sell it to who has all the money that you want, which is your neighbor to the south.
OR, if people here were a bit smarter, they'd think of some ways to help out Canadian industry instead, and spend it here.. then at least we wouldn't be so dependant on the USA for so many things..