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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug444, post: 1896821, member: 38849&quot;]About 30 years ago, there was a movement in the Prairie Provinces to merge all of Canada with the United States, to form the United States of North America, over a period of several decades.&nbsp; I wrote to the guy in Saskatchewan, but don&#039;t recall his name.&nbsp; Quebec was to vote whether to join or not, their call.&nbsp; Then you would have had an impregnable superpower, with plenty of land for homesteading, plenty of natural resources, and vast new opportunities in agriculture, mining, fishing, and&nbsp; hydroelectricity.&nbsp; I liked the idea.&nbsp; With global warming now pushing the crop-growing line farther and farther north, Canada&#039;s food production should surge, making it potentially one of the richest countries in the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>For Josh, here is Canada&#039;s official status:&nbsp; &quot;...Canada is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation" rel="nofollow">federal</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_democracy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_democracy" rel="nofollow">parliamentary democracy</a> and a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy" rel="nofollow">constitutional monarchy</a>, with Queen <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II" rel="nofollow">Elizabeth II</a> as its head of state. Canada is a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" rel="nofollow">Commonwealth of Nations</a>.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Head of state is NOT the same as head of government.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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