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2005-02-17 Great White North

Border talks called `Disturbing'

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Posted by anonymous2u 2005-02-17 12:36:01 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Treating all North American citizens as domestic investors in each country.

There are certainly enough bad/frightening ideas in there to go 'round but this sentence sends a chill down my spine.

Posted by AzCat 2005-02-17 1:39:58 AM|| 2005-02-17 1:39:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL! Wotta load. This is multiculti think-tank tea-time wank-chatter. Not happening. Probably not even make it to serious discussion until Mexico stops being a third world country with first world resources and Kanada stops being insane - on a wide range of issues. So what, 30-40 years, maybe? Lol!

Posted by .com 2005-02-17 1:48:32 AM|| 2005-02-17 1:48:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Just a ivory tower private thinktank doing out of the box thinking. A high quality continental customs standard and a contiguous security perimeter are not bad ideas, but I agree Mexico is the weak link. No political union or single passport needed or wanted.

Posted by Steve 2005-02-17 8:43:20 AM|| 2005-02-17 8:43:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Canada really is the other weak link, Steve. Look at the kind of people they encourage to immigrate. As for the security perimeter thingie, I wouldn't trust either of our neighbors to do anything more than require us to handle the entire load.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-17 12:10:01 PM|| 2005-02-17 12:10:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 What's your beef, AzCat? I don't see anything wrong with that. That means we could actually own beachfront property in Mexico, or own stock in their companies. (I'm not saying the latter is a good idea, just that it shouldn't be restricted.) Currently, what are the restrictions on foreigners investing in the US? Are there any? Daimler Benz bought Chrysler (and darn near ruined it, "merger of equals," My assets) after all.

Similarly, I don't have a problem with freer transport of goods. In spite of NAFTA, I sometimes have problems with stuff going to or from Canada.

The only sticking point I see would be the unlimited immigration possible.

Posted by jackal 2005-02-17 1:45:09 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-02-17 1:45:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh goody, just what we need, a North American version of the EU. I know already what would derail it. Just say that Bush loves the idea. That will kill it faster than you can blink.

Besides, I thought we already had a de facto single currency on this continent called the dollar. The US Dollar, not the Canadian....

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-02-17 1:50:51 PM|| [http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2005-02-17 1:50:51 PM|| Front Page Top

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