The American flag floating over every square foot of North America, clear to the North Pole. The ancient ghosts of annexation have always haunted Canadians that reciprocity would engulf the country. To America, Canada is seen as useful, as well as irritating. How does America deal with a nation of closet radicals living in steaming private worlds of contradictory emotions? The quandary of the menace of peaceful American penetration, frustrated by geography and economics; an inability to extricate itself, even marginally, from the continental economy. Still, with all its power, money and cultural penetration, the U.S. cannot turn Canadians into Americans.

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