Canada has a tidy arrangement with the U.S. – but for how long?

Current trade relationship suits us, but there may come a day when the American appetite for our resources might exceed what we consider to be in our best interests

A U.S. takeover of Canada? Most would agree, the notion is absurd.

The star-spangled maple leaf scenario has for years been a perennial darling of imaginative futurists and left-leaning conspiracy theorists.

…The fact is that Americans increasingly depend on Canada’s bounty.

The two countries have been upgrading North American transit and electricity corridors and installing new pipeline infrastructure, to share resources.

The U.S. experienced peak oil way back in 1970. That was the year its oil production began declining.

Canada funnels more than half the 3.4 million barrels of oil it produces daily to the U.S. And provides 82 per cent of all U.S. natural gas imports. And sells a third of its hydroelectricity to U.S. markets. And supplies a third of the uranium used in U.S. nuclear power plants.

Vancouver Sun