51st State

Contributor: cfallon

Date: 2003-02-07 11:39:33

1) What Mulroney and Campbell do has nothing to do with the US.
2) Wanting us to adopt a like-minded policy on Cuba is simply that.
3) I agree - the Great Lakes should not be commercially fished. Am I a US puppet simply because I disagree with you?
4) Majority is a term that means something: the largest chunk of a population. What you say is compeletely false. Our brightest leave for the US only because they are so stifled by the monolithic thinking you must adopt in Canada or you'll be declared un-Canadian.
5) Accentless broadcasts? What does that mean?
6) Alaska is on the Arctic Ocean. Alaska is part of the US. Both these facts can be verified in your atlas.
7) The US does not want Mexico or the Phillipines. I think you have an exagerrated notion of the desirability of these 2 countries.
8)US tourists put Canadian flags on their backpacks because they know that they will be treated more humanely outside their country. For some reason, Europeans feel free to discriminate against US citizens.
9) Quebec would never accept being part of a 51st state. I would not accept it and I voted NO in the last referendum. I don't think its appropriate to refer to any issue involving the state of Quebec as "franco" - there are some of us Quebecers (20%) who are not franco.
10) Canada's future does not lie in its natural resources. We are not drawers of water anymore. As a mining engineer, I can assure you that Canada's mining industry is in decline as it turns its financial might southward.

The US environmental standards are MUCH higher than Canada's. We are the dirtiest people on the planet when it comes to industrial pollution and toxic waste. Because our land is so immense and sparsely populated, we can ignore this fact - but it will come back to haunt us. We ignore our environmental degredation at our peril and would be much better off adopting the higher standards of the US, California in particular.