Aaron White said:
Well, that's a good question, and a hard one to anwser, because being "Canadian" is not well-defined yet.
-I live in Toronto, and I can tell you that there is much more of an extreme difference between the rich and the poor in Toronto than there used to be, but it's still nothing near that of a U.S. city....
-Canadians wouldn't morph into different people, but there would be a proliferation of handguns if our border were eliminated, and the U.S. has 10 times the gun murders we do per capita.
--Our arts industry would disappear, not that we have a huge arts industry yet.
--University tuition would continue to rise, until poor people had little access to post-secondary education.
--Any chance of enhancing our bigger and smaller cities would eventually disappear, as our wealth would be American-owned and spent in American cities, and our skilled workers would all have to leave for greener pastures, hence our population would be much poorer--see Puerto Rico.
--Most hospitals in Canada would be privatized, and many rural hospitals closed, as is already happening slowly.
--If you care more about military issues--Canada would never get the chance to repeal that awful 90-year agreement Diefenbaker signed, stating we would "Never build another fixed-wing or flexible-wing military aircraft for 90 years."
Canada has some of the absolute best researchers and scientists in the world, and we would lose our chance to use that expertise to build a Canadian-designed military, fighter jets, tanks, helicopters, ships, and our own car companie(s), our own farm machinery, our own pharmaceutical companies.
--Also, we'd lose our chance to make our own decisions, and would be governed by manifest destiny, rather than peace, order, and good government.
This is the msot dangerous thing--if the "one-worlders" or "globalists" get their way, we'll be a potential forever lost, rather than a country with the most resources in the world, who could be a middle-power easily now, and much more if we increased our population to say 100 million, not through immigration but through making childbirth more affordable and offering more financial incentives to have kids.
If we did this Quebec nationalism would probably disappear, and we'd have no other huge threat to national unity.....this is a critical stage we need to get past--first step is thwarting Martin and his awful group of globalists, as well as John Manley's NAFTA+ he's trying to sell us.