Why I'm not worried about a US invasion of Canada

The value divided by costs of efforts for 'assimilating' Canada into US continues to elude me.

Alberta tar sands can be cooked into saleable petroleum, as already done, but it's not like they have been dragging their heels. Fracking has reduced value of tar sands. Let it go.

Canada grows lots of trees and less have been burned in recent years than click media might lead you to 'feel'. But those trees have not higher value than plywood and stick stock. Furniture and other good stuff comes from wood from lower latitudes.

Canada's Great Plains grow wheat etc., but future climates won't improve those soils. US farm belt has mollsols; a soil type not found up North. I am sad to not effectively teach y'all about soil types.

In general, if US wants what Canada gots, just reduce tariffs.

 

Like dairy?
Lumber?

Frankly, tariffs are taxes, and I remember a time when taxes were thought of as a necessary evil - NOT a plan for prosperity.

There's an approximately zero-percent chance that the US would invade Canada - OR invite them to be States 53 through 63 - nor would they WANT US to.
They have all of the advantages of being US without most of the downsides.

 

just the ability to be able to drive to alaska without leaving the country would be worth it

 

Or at least Point Roberts. Maybe we could negotiate for an overland route to Point Roberts, and call it win-win?

 

Energy..almost as dependent in certain areas of the US as Europe is/was on Russian gas.

 

maybe northeast electric rates would go down

 

Good point.

As I said.
We share a 5,500 mile border!
The idea that there will be a 'major' trade disruption between our two nations doesn't even rise to the level of clique-bait.

Besides:
The only TWO times you will get most Canadians riled up is with two-2-word phrases:

American Beer
Stanley Cup