"North American Union"

[airshifter]

^ to the average USA rube, Canadians are just a bunch of 'Snow Mexicans', and don't you forget that.

Canadians are much too smart to fall for opinionated and incorrect fearmongering based on ill informed stereotypes. Don't you forget that!

[Mark in Oshawa]

^ to the average USA rube, Canadians are just a bunch of 'Snow Mexicans', and don't you forget that.

SOD...while there are more than a few Canadians that would agree with you, sadly no...we are not "Snow Mexicans".....we are "Hey..you guys are just like us"..which is grating on some levels because we are something else again.

I get up Christmas Day and watch the Queen's address. Americans wouldn't do that. We like weird winter sports that the Americans tolerate at best. We have different views on a lot. We are like Americans to people in Europe...but anyone who has been to the two nations knows there is a difference. Our roots go back to the crown and the UK still even with all the immigrants and I think most Americans sense that at some point.

The three nations will trade but NAFTA will never evolve into something like the EU. The US of A has too much of a xenophobic strain in parts of the populace to accept Mexico on that level and while most Americans think Canada is the same...as I stated above we Canadians like doing things our way.

Besides...we don't want to give away vital parts of our heritage such as: on how to make coffee, put a rock in the four foot or how keep warm while ice fishing (ok..that one is easy and it involves lots of alcohol!)

[Easy Drifter]

Sod: You are clueless. Read most of the posts on this forum. The majority of US citizens know quite a bit about Canada.
Over my years of travel in the US I found that most US citizens that knew nothing or little about Canada also knew little about their own country.

By the way the much maligned Sarah Palin probably knows more about Canada than does Obama.

[Daniel]

Sod: You are clueless. Read most of the posts on this forum. The majority of US citizens know quite a bit about Canada.
Over my years of travel in the US I found that most US citizens that knew nothing or little about Canada also knew little about their own country.

By the way the much maligned Sarah Palin probably knows more about Canada than does Obama.

I think we can be fairly certain that SOD was only joking with that remark.......

[Easy Drifter]

Got to go watch the Skins game from Casino Rama.
Anybody on here know what I am talking about?

[Daniel]

Got to go watch the Skins game from Casino Rama.
Anybody on here know what I am talking about?

Is that some kinda injun talk?

[SOD]

Canadians are much too smart to fall for opinionated and incorrect fearmongering based on ill informed stereotypes. Don't you forget that!

if you only knew who told me that

[Jag_Warrior]

if you only knew who told me that

Shush! I thought we agreed we were going to keep that on the down low, quiet tip!

[Jag_Warrior]

what do our NA friends think of this idea?

OK, I understand you mean the U.S., Canada and Mexico, but what do you mean? A common currency or...?

IMO, the North American (unfair) Free Trade Agreement is bad enough. The situation with Canada is a pretty even give & take. But Mexico receives a greater benefit than either of the other two. And this act has greatly harmed American manufacturing and the middle class in this country. I was a great fan of Ross Perot in the early '90's and I believe that his words on the matter were prophetic: the sound you'll hear from NAFTA is the giant sucking sound of American jobs heading south. And that's exactly what has happened. I'm all for free trade. But it must be fair, free trade. And right now, it's too easy to bribe U.S. politicians to do what is best for the corporate elite, rather than what is best for the nation long term.

[Jag_Warrior]

By the way the much maligned Sarah Palin probably knows more about Canada than does Obama.

Can she see Canada from her house?