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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
Canada and the US are far enough apart on many issues that it wouldn't work. Are you Canadian? If you are you might aswell kiss your job goodby if you want to open up the borders to all Americans. You think thats what Canadians want? 300 million more possible job seekers into their job market?
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Have you lived in Calgary? Cause at least a few months ago, we had nowhere near enough workers, YES I would like all of them to come to Calgary. As many Mexicans as can come as well. The inflation in Calgary has been pretty rough these past 5 years - mostly due to the lack of workers in this country. In addition, due to the ageing of the boomers, we are soon (10 years) going to need all the workers we can possibly get our hands on.
The POLITICIANS are far enough apart on those issues. Canadians are different from the typical american, yes, but you need to realize that most americans aren't your typical american, either. Californians are as different from Texans, as Newfoundlanders are from Floridians. The artificial differences between the different segments of our two countries are made up - mostly because Canadian politicians are really, really scared about the continuing existence of Canada. You can't tell me I'm more different from a Minnesotan than I am from a Quebecois - I've been to both, I'll tell you it's easy to tell which of these things is not like the others.
Open the borders.