North American Union ?

[PolyNewbie]

ScottSA:Because I like being a slave to the Star Chamber of the United Council of Jew Bankers and assorted Elders of Zion? It's fun, and you get to learn the neato secret handshakes!

The content in your responses to my posts indicate your level of intelligence.

[geoffrey]

I'd love to see a Quebec take on Alberta independence.

My guess would be it would be a call to arms, an affirmation of brothers being strange bedfellows.

In other words, a complete and utter miscalculation and misunderstanding of anything outside the island of Montreal. As usual.

I don't know, I think you may be misunderstanding Quebec independance as well. Quebec's is an emotional sepertist movement, they want their culture, and by all means, they should have it at their own expense, apart from Canada.

Alberta's seperatism is a more rational, cold, argument. The system (confederation) doesn't work for us, nor in my opinion, anyone else in Canada. Why stick around?

There is a select few Albertans that think being anti-SSM and anti-abortion and pro-guns is a way of life and they feel our 'culture' isn't be protected. I'll tell you the most of the autonomist movement out here is far more rational, we realise the economic potential for Alberta is much greater without Canada, and I'd personally like to explore that more.

Do Quebecois see that? Maybe, maybe not. I find alot of them are actually skeptical about our movement, thinking that we have no reason to seperate (interestingly, they find rationality in their purely emotional argument, but not in ours).

The license plates you are least likely to see in the West in the summer are from Quebec. How sad.

I actually rode (mountain bike) with a Quebecois on Thursday. We all know the best riders come from Quebec and Alberta (ok, fine, BC can join in too)... Lots of them come out to ski and bike in our real mountains. In the winter, I'd often XC ski with folks from Quebec too. The tourism to Alberta from Quebec is big, but it's mostly around sports (Alberta and Quebec are the olympic provinces of Canada, and definitely the most active). Quebeckers rival BC and outnumber any other province when it comes to people I meet out in the backcountry or at races.

Why someone would leave Montreal for Calgary for arts or something, would truly boggle the mind.

[Kapitän Rotbart]

A North American union would be favorable, that way there would truly be a free flow of goods and people between the two countries. It would be a little tricky in terms of immigration though (foreign residents crossing the boarder) and Canada would probably find it more difficult to not show support when the USA wants to set up galactic missile launchers aiming at different countries from outer-space (not like this matters, Canada can't really stop the American gov't from doing anything anyway). It would do wonders for the economy.

Honnestly though, I'd be more concerned about Mexico than Quebexico relating to this topic. Bavaria (the Nazi state) in Germany has a large number of seperatists and the EU has had little or no impact on the desire of a large number of Bavarians to seperate from the rest of Germany.

Even if a NAU takes full effect, Québec will remain unchanged in terms of seperation, sovereignty-association and any other sentiments of nationalism. If anything, a well established NAU would make it more difficult for Québec to seperate.

[PolyNewbie]

It would do wonders for the economy.

How ? It would put corporations in more of a ruling position because if people demanded more money they could just move - they will just keep moving to where the wages are lower. Workers have no bargaining position.