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Originally Posted by worth
But by taking the decision making out of the hands of our elected representatives in Ottawa, aren't we essentially dissolving our Parliamentary Democracy? We would be electing representatives who then appoint others to the main North American governing body, much like the EU does now. To me, that dissolves the soverignty of the Countries involved, and thus renders the voice of the citizen useless if things voted on by the North American government can over rule what member states citizens want.
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Economically speaking we're better off by achieving greater economies of scale on a continent level and eliminating Quebec and Ontario as the primary decision makers for each and every other provinces economic affairs vis-a-vis the US and Mexico (Those two provinces seem to always have their hand in the cookie jar one way or another. Ontario gets off on telling you how to do things even if it doesn't affect them and Quebec just wants the gravy train to continue running ontime). Of course to buy into this you'd have to be a proponant of less government = better government economically. I'd also like to remind that a union of this type wouldn't prevent the government from making law and order decisions, taxing and spending (as long as they don't rack up debt above certain thresholds). Of course any self respecting Finance and economic academic would agree with this but there are a whole lot of left leaning Poli Sci people who continue to hold on to this 'Treaty of Westpahlia' view of the world they don't want to let go of.