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You're focusing too much on China. Although they would be a useful trading partner you're making the assumption that they would somehow replace the US as our main trading partner. There is only a certain niche that China can fill (at the moment), which is to say the market for cheap plastic widgets and toys that may or may not contain lead. What is important for Canada is to have access to the Chinese consumer market, so we can sell our stuff to them. When the Chinese central bank stops deliberately undervaluing the yuan, there will be a huge decrease in exports and the Chinese consumer will be hungry for all sorts of products. If anyone thinks trade sanctions are the best way to get China to change their domestic policy is living in a fantasy world. There are lots of other routes we can take to achieve that end, including using our free media, strong civil society and NGOs.

The US on the other hand is debasing their currency, and thus will be unable to buy as much from us in the near term if they continue on their current route.

We should be looking towards the EU, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Australia/New Zealand as future strategic allies.

I don't advocate cutting off all ties with the US and shunning them, all I am advocating is moving away from being such a close ally of a country that has lost a lot of its credibility on the international stage. Of course the next election may change all that, but it certainly won't change the economic situation, which could take years for the US to retool so they become an actual producer nation instead of the world's leading consumer of Asian goods. In the meanwhile, we will have to find somewhere else to purchase our products from at a fair rate, and we definitely have to stop debasing our own currency to maintain a lower dollar than the US to 'encourage exports'. There is no way we will win in a race to the bottom when it comes to devaluing our money.

Lastly, realize that I don't hate America, conversely, I have the utmost respect for the founding fathers of the US and their ideals. Unfortunately I have to call a spade a spade and I definitely see economic problems in store for the US in the near future - and historically economic unrest leads to social unrest. It is this reason why I'm advocating a shift from our US-centric trade and foreign policy.

Where is the morality for neighbors to distance themselves from one another as soon as one fall in a rough pass?

The one that's fallen into "a rough pass" has a habit of bullying and stealing from others.

Plenty of morality in distancing ourselves from that.

We should be removing american control in our country for one ...

We should also remove our reliance on their economy, they are tanking and as an empire they are imploding, let them burn! we dont deserve the fate thats awaiting them.

We should be putting our ethics and morality above those of yanks anyway, between radical religious ideas, crushing civil rights, and ultimate greed of the elite they stand well positioned to destroy democracy, the u.s. is posed to end its empire as one of the most hated countries on the planet, rightly so!

They should be opposed with all we can muster, they need us desperately, let them choke I say, send them a message to smarten up ...

Canada replacing United States by China would be like a man divorcing to marry his wife’s best girlfriend.

I have a dream. In that dream we build some huge ass rocket engines deep within the Earth. When completed, we fire them up ripping the whole country out of its' current position and plop it somewhere in the Mid Pacific, somewhere nice and close to the Equator. Hopefully we don't squish too many Islands, that would be unfortunate. We'd have to relocate the Polar Bears, and a few other species first though. The major Islands such as Newfoundland, Vancouver Island, Haida Gwai(sp), and others would require separate Engines, but that would be ok, because we could plop them elsewhere, such as the Indian Ocean for one, Carribean(sp) for another, Atlantic, etc.

Why? Why not!

I love how some people here think that cheap Europeans are going to buy Canadian goods. They dont want your goods. they consider them inferior to their masterfully enginered products.

They consider North Americans their stupid second cousins.

Regina Regina:

Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:

Regina Regina:

Is there another country we're geographically tied to with 4,000+ miles of border and has a customer base that it 10 times ours we can trade with? All sounds great till you look around at who else you can deal with.

There's always China...

I personally don't think we should trade with one nation like we are with the States though.

It's like Wal-Mart and Flagler. Flagler, with 95% dependency on Wal-Mart, is barely surviving right now after getting dropped.

I think Canada should trade mostly with The EU, China, and Japan.

This single nation trade idea is risky.

Have you looked at a map and seen where China is?? Do you understand that they don't want buy our shit or anybody else's? You'd also endorse trade with a country that violates human rights as well?

We already are...

I love how some people here think that cheap Europeans are going to buy Canadian goods. They dont want your goods. they consider them inferior to their masterfully enginered products.

A lot of countries are too poor to participate to international trade. If Canada would contribute to their takeoffs, new markets for Canadian goods will be created.

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