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North America is headed for an inevitable union

“In the last half of the Twentieth Century, Canada effectively abandoned the vision of being an economic and military power separate from the United States. Recognizing that our north-south axis ultimately trumped our east-west arrangements, we accepted the continentalization of North American defence and the economy. The logic of the gradual erasure of the border for military and economic purposes always implied the idea of a North American perimeter. No one seems to know how Washington and Ottawa will tighten the perimeter in coming months