What if united states will join with canada

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The political system is all but rigged with gerrymandering and unlimited special interest money. The health care system is broken, and even modest reforms risk repeal. A good education can mean a lifetime of debt. With no hope of any gun control on the horizon, there is now on average one mass shooting a day. Canada has its problems too. Our falling birth rates and insufficient immigration numbers are putting significant limits on our potential long-term growth and prosperity. Our economy lags behind other OECD countries in terms of innovation and our entrepreneurs tend to be very risk-averse.

We remain a resource economy. And then there is the weather. Our winters are simply hell. Now, what if I told you we could solve all of these problems, both Yankee and Canuck, with one simple step? Over the last three or four decades, the cultural, social and political values of large swaths of American have become indistinguishable from those north of the 49th parallel. While other states have reverted to Dixie, other regions have become more liberal, more multicultural and more communal, in short more Canadian.

It is a simple fact of the 21st century that a New Yorker, in the way she lives her life and sees the world, has more in common with a Montrealer than she would with someone from rural Arkansas. The first one — the anchoring strategy — consists of making a lopsided first offer, thereby forcing the counterparty to start the negotiation farther away from its core position. In such a case, the counterparty has no choice but to walk away from the offer temporarily, find a better realistic alternative or improve on its position.

Recently, Trump used anchoring in trade negotiations with Canada, the EU and Mexico by unilaterally imposing tariffs on steel and aluminium. Meanwhile, consumers will face higher prices, workers on both sides of the Atlantic will lose their jobs and economic theorists will be proven right — no one wins a trade war.

At the very least, they would substantially improve their best realistic alternative in future talks with the U. Instead of playing tit-for-tat with a negotiator like Trump, the EU could offer Canada a fast-track opportunity to join its trade bloc. Canada would quickly replace its lost U. Geo-strategically, the EU would gain a foothold on another continent instead of losing global influence through Brexit. During the s and s, the EU took in formerly Communist countries, some of which remain further removed from Brussels than rule-of-law-loving Canada.

Inviting Canada to apply for EU membership would inevitably trigger an anguished, overdue and fundamental foreign policy discussion in Washington. Geo-strategically, this would herald the birth of a new multipolar era. In , U.

In essence, it asserted American political primacy in the Western Hemisphere. In particular, European and other powers were to be kept out of the U. The doctrine has helped Mexico and Canada in terms of national security and trade but it has also severely restricted their foreign policy options. The time is ripe for the EU to pounce. Foreign policy experts joke that Canada would feel more at home if it were situated between Belgium and the Netherlands.

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