Canada announces end of economic relationship with US, & a bold new strategy to 2020Ottawa, May 14, 2009
The country of Canada today announced the end of its centuries long relationship with the United States, and a bold new seven-point "Canada Transformed!" strategy that will re-orient its economic, cultural, societal values and innovation engine towards the world economy of 2020.
"It has come to the point that we can no longer rely on the United States as an honest and reliable economic partner," stated Canada at a news conference. "It is time that we adopt a bold new strategy that will align our economy away from the US, and towards the growth economies of the 21st century in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. As well, we will immediately begin working to enhance our long standing relationships with reliable partner nations in Europe."
The massive scope of the plan was not lost on Canada in the emotional conference. "We aim to reduce our role of being the largest trading partner with the United States, to becoming a marginal partner at best. We believe that this is the only right way forward."
This article was written by a futurist, "Jim Carroll", whose blog I linked to from Bourque.
It is well worth the read, and makes some interesting points about the relationship between Canada and USA, especially as it relates to trade, and their dependence on our continued participation in the present trade arrangements.
