Canada's biggest trading partner... It's not a one-way street.
There was no reference in my post to trade. I mentioned natural resources and so far as those are concerned the US needs Canada a great deal more than Canada needs the US.
How many links would you like? Try Googling "US intervention" and you get thousands of hits. But here is a start. I always think it important that people know something of their own history.
Latin America ? United States relations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
History of U.S. Military Interventions since 1890
This last one is interesting as it is a response from an economic nationalist to US involvement in Canada's economy.
James Laxer: Surviving American Imperialism
Making observations after-the-fact that conform to a pre-conceived belief is not proof of anything.
You are certainly correct there. I wish you would stop doing it.
BTW - While I will grant that the US applied their influence in the "banana republic" nations is no where close to your assertion that the US "reacted strongly against any nation that has attempted to gain control of its own resources". You've lumped Canada into this and I can't agree in any way.
Strangely you make this statement, but then include Cuba in your references. I guess you do not see the multiple US attempts to assassinate Castro and the deliberate attempt to wreck the Cuban economy as a strong reaction.
You might also take a look at the US reaction to the takeover of the Sandanistas in Nicaragua. Somehow financing an invasion seems a little extreme to me. But then I am not an American desperately defending US imperialism.
Again, it's a 2-way street and secondly, NAFTA doesn't automatically relinquish Canada's natural resource base. Consider for one minute that this current economic recession that has hit the States harder than Canada has resulted in more Canadians buying real estate and properties in the USA... It doesn't get any more bi-lateral than that.
It is hardly bilateral given the fact that for every potential Canadian buyer of US properties there are ten US buyers for Canadian properties. I naively assumed you would realize that the US economy is much larger than Canada's. In order for Canada to have any impact on the US it would have to engage in a large scale campaign to take over US businesses and even that might not work.
Directly from your self-fulling prophecy that if the Americans aren't in engaging some kind of clandestine program of world domination, then the politicos in Canada will make sure it happens.
You are a master of misinterpretation. Nothing in my post spoke of a US desire to dominate the world. But now that you mention it, many of the actions of the USA during the Cold War could easily be interpreted that way. Thank you for pointing that out.
I am speaking of the fact that every government elected in Canada during the last ten decades or so has gone out of its way to attract US investment, in the mistaken belief that foreign investment was the only way to prosperity.
I have no idea why you posted the info on Trudeau except for the fact that I pointed out he was the only Canadian leader to attempt to ease the stranglehold the US held on Canada's resource sector. None of it has any relevance to this discussion. I assume you think I was a supporter of Trudeau. In fact I was not, although I do admire the fact that he managed to annoy the "great" Ronald Reagan on numerous occasions.
Suggesting a command economy are we?
It hasn't worked in the (former) USSR and in the event you want a more contemporary example of the philosophy you are promoting, consider Cuba and North Korea... Real bastions of freedom and quality of life.
Once again a masterful piece of misinterpretation. There is nothing in my post to indicate I would advocate a command economy. You really must start reading what is actually posted and not what you would like to see posted. As a matter of fact there is nothing in any of my posts in CC suggesting support for a centrally planned economy.
Great, you ought to get the cash together to buy-out the foreign companies.. You'll want to get more cash to invest in teh development of those resources while you're at it.
It's just that easy.
Actually I was not necessarily referring to the resource sector in that part of my post. I don't know if you have ever visited Canada, but if you did you could hardly fail to notice that many of Canada's retail outlets, especially in the area of fast food are US owned. I see little value in this sort of ownership for Canada.
So far as developing Canada's resources, Canada is not a developing country. There is more than enough cash available to develop its resources without US help.
And finally - most of your responses have been based on the fact that you were so intent on defending US economic imperialism that you ignored the salient point in my original post - and that is that the various levels of Canadian governments will do nothing to prevent the US domination of the Canadian economy from continuing. Most of your response seems to have been an effort to draw the thread off-topic.
The original thread asked
"Should Canada nationalize its resource sector? To restate my original point in its simplest terms -
Canada will do nothing to alleviate the current US domination of the Canadian economy.
