Besides, since something like 85% of our trade is with the US, if the US gets an economic cold, we get the virus also.
We are tired tied very closely to the US, like it or not.....
Oh c'mon, since when is Canada not totally affected with what goes on in the states? Or the rest of the world for that matter. Our ball-less prime minister has our young kid soldiers involved in a mess started by the US sticking their nose in everybody else's business, for one, and I think Iraq would also say that the US's politics and who's in power will affect them greatly too...no?
Read what I wrote again, and what I was responding to. International relations had nothing to do with it. I guess you could read my post as responding to general comments about the US economy as a whole, but that wasn't the point either (though I can't help but notice that Canadians complain about the US economy when it negatively affects them but never praise it when it benefits them).
The point of my post was that the US medicare, health care, and education systems are purely domestic concerns. They don't affect the day-to-day life of Canadians any more than the education and health care systems in Canada affect my life.
