Stephen Harper has been a long time surporter of deeper integration with the United States. Just google Harper + Deep Integration and see for yourself.
The Toronto Star and Globe and Mail ran stories on it prior to the election but credit must be given to the Tories campaign they squashed any mention of Deep Integration quickly. Then again the Liberals screwed up so badly you can't blame people for voting for the Tories.
The danger of this sort of policy or direction isn't about the old Canadian rhetoric of east vs. west, it has larger implications for foreign policy (do you really want to unify our foreign policy with the United States?), trade (we run a Trade Surplus and the US runs a trade deficit) and ndustry (private health care anyone???).
I mean, if you travel across the US you'll find many different cultures and lifestyles, so I don't doubt that in a merged continent we would lose very much in terms of individual provincial/regional cultures. The problem is wether or not we want to be dominated by a country whos worldview is fundamentally different from our own.
-ohms.
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