Peter:

Sweetly put. Personally, I have always believed that what the USA really needed, more than anything, was the civilizing influence that Canada could afford it. In light of this, I am very much in favor of a proposal penned into fiction by Clive Cussler: the creation of a joint nation, to be known to the world as the United States of Canada. Sure there would be some rough spots, but we could work it out.

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