The O.P.
How would geography be a hindrance? Consider the size of Canada itself as proof that in the modern world geography is not much of an obstacle.
The O.P.
How would geography be a hindrance? Consider the size of Canada itself as proof that in the modern world geography is not much of an obstacle.
3000 miles of ocean!
With modern telecommunications technology, that's nothing today.
OK, first of all let's examine the potential benefits of such a merger! :smile:
Many examples, but I'll give just a few:
1. If one country has a high unemployment rate in a particular trade or profession and another has shortages, it would remove all buraucracy in international travel between those countries.
2. A kind of scratch my back and I scratch yours scenario whereby if one country's economy is weak and another's is strong, rather than have to take more social assistance, those willing could seek work elsewhere.
3. countries sharing a common passport could more easily share embassies and embassy services, thus reducing overhead there too.
4. It protects mroe against beggar-thy-neighbour policies in that a country will not be interested in protecting its jobs at the expense of another country seeing that, with common citizenship and thus free labour movement, it would be shooting itself in the foot. Thus, the interests of one country are the interests of the others.
I vote, no
"no to drugs"
Mostly good points for sure! How would that affect the "security fence" that is proposed around the U.S. and Canada?
Many examples, but I'll give just a few:
1. If one country has a high unemployment rate in a particular trade or profession and another has shortages, it would remove all buraucracy in international travel between those countries.
2. A kind of scratch my back and I scratch yours scenario whereby if one country's economy is weak and another's is strong, rather than have to take more social assistance, those willing could seek work elsewhere.
3. countries sharing a common passport could more easily share embassies and embassy services, thus reducing overhead there too.
4. It protects mroe against beggar-thy-neighbour policies in that a country will not be interested in protecting its jobs at the expense of another country seeing that, with common citizenship and thus free labour movement, it would be shooting itself in the foot. Thus, the interests of one country are the interests of the others.
As long as you can figure out how to keep the freeloaders from migrating to where ever is paying the highest welfare. Or stop a massive influx to certain areas and driving wages down.
This of course will go only so far until they can't lower them any further without causing severe hardship, at which point it might force them to come up with new ideas on how to help the poor, such as community work programmes or other ways to help the poor while also making them work too, or some other solution.
Good idea, there is always garbage along the rights of way that needs picking up or just patrolling the streets after dark to reduce thuggery or at least increase the apprehension of the thugs. Those willing to do so could perhaps have their welfare increased by $20 day. It would also give them a taste of what working is like. It would also increase employment as supervisors would have to be hired. I'm all for the idea. :smile:
Mostly good points for sure! How would that affect the "security fence" that is proposed around the U.S. and Canada?
What is wrong with the fence we have now?
Well that IS what our fence is like for 1800km + across the Prairie but recent adjustments to sovereignty have made it that if a CDN cow gets loose into US RCMP can go round it up and a Sheriff can come across without special requests and paperwork to pick up their cows. If the fence falls over in a lightning strike and the whole herd gets loose both RCMP and Sheriff can rally in just minutes to corral the whole lot.Ha, another bonus! :lol:
We should be talking about re-establishing the sovereign nation states of Canada, Britain and United States rather than talking about economic union. We and the rest of the world have already delivered ourselves to predatory jaws of global oligarchs and there running dogs in the IMF, WTO, World Bank, UN.
The desperate collapse of the Western economies are all predicated on the Global Free Market policies. So i say reestablish the sovereign national rights of trade policy, of currency and credit, of government economic planning in the public interest, and of public ownership of natural monopolies in resources, utilities, transportation and communications.
Look at Europe, teetering on the brink of chaos. Economic union does not work now, it has never worked and it will never work. The only question is whether we have to fall into a Great Depression of unknown depth and duration before we realize that.
Good fences (figuratively speaking) make good neighbours.