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I'll jump in here to give my unsolicited opinion: the differences between the countries will become more and more meaningless until it's like the difference between states, then counties. There won't be a need to merge the countries because they'll gradually dissolve into the same entity. It's not a matter of just the US and Canada merging, it'll be the whole world and for the better. I can tell you the economic outlook looks way better when anyone of us can work wherever in the world, setup shop wherever. Nations are already losing relevence in the big scheme of things, why bother with the nationalism anymore. What happens in Montana or Idaho or even Texas usually has a bigger influence on my life than what happens in Halifax or even Montreal/Toronto anyways. It makes more sense to draw the lines culturally and economically if you need to draw them at all. Live in Toronto? Vancouver? Everywhere else in Canada is really English (besides Quebec of course). Neither - I live in Mississauga outside Toronto. I find Toronto to be more English belive it or not than all the outside cities of Toronto. And oops, guess what, 25% of Canada's Population is within 100km of Toronto. People underestimate just how much of our country speaks a language other than English. If I really had to wager, I would say the majority of Canadians speak languages other than English and French. I find it funny how people make stats look anyway they want!!! The fact is that 98% of Canadians speak either french or english. The stat your talking about is mother tounge. I work downtown Vancouver and can tell you for a fact that the vast majority speak english. You maybe worried about visible minorities and just not saying it. I don't feel Canadians should be worried about this either. The fact is the european majority will be the majority for a very long time. only 13% of the population is a minority and at our pase of immergration it would take about 500 years for euro's to be a minority if euro's stopped having babies now. this is really becoming a boring topic. I fear were becoming a nation of worrie warts.

North America should fourm a Union like the E.U. First we are much more intergrated already than Europe. Hate to say it but Western Canada would be much better off in such a union than we are now. I guess people in Canada are opposed to the idea because of some romantic sence of national identity? Hate to say it but we are already an intergrated union, just not offfically. example: I work for an american company, watch american t.v, movies, and listen to american music. That's just me, I may be wrong but I have a feeling that i'm not the only Canadian that lives his life like this. I think the spp hasn't gone far enough. I think it should be a free movment of not just goods but people. Canadian and Americans should be able to live or work freely in either country. I would include Mexico but it needs to increase it's standard of living first, let's face it half of Mexico would move in the first month.