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"In May of 2005, the Council on Foreign Relations released a document entitled "Building a North American Community" in which it calls for an EU-like

Posted by Loyola Feb 17 '10, 08:28

integration of Canada, the United States and Mexico."

http://rawstory.com/2010/02/mexican-foreign-minister-calls-north-american-union-unified-currency/ (rawstory.com)

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why would the canadians debase their nice, sound currency by merging it with the us dollar?....nm - x Feb 17, 08:43 10
- cause we want a piece of your trillion dollar deficits! -- nm - Beaker Feb 17, 08:47 4
  - As opposed to our half-trillion deficit with 1/10th of the population? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 17, 09:01 3
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      - word -- nm - Beaker Feb 17, 09:07
    - *slaps self* I mean debt. Half-a-trillion debt. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 17, 09:04
- I'm skeptical it could ever happen with Canadian nationalism the way it is, but in May 2005, our dollar was a lot weaker as global tender. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 17, 08:45 4
  - Any currency union would be dominated by the US. I wonder whether (if geography were different) Canada would join the euro? -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 08:49
  - that was five years ago, so i'm not sure what difference that supposedly makes now...nm, - x Feb 17, 08:49 2
    - Oh, don't get me wrong. I agree we'd be foolish to tie it now. Just adding the context of when the report was from. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 17, 09:00 1
      - ah, that makes sense...nm - x Feb 17, 09:04

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