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Contributor: fatmomma
Date: 2003-04-16 01:10:32
I believe Canada should remain in the UN. I believe the UN should and can be revamped to be more effective and enabled to enforce its resolutions. I believe this is even more important if the USA does not wish to continue its membership in the UN. The world may need the UN to band together to counter balance the power of the USA as the sole Super power. The President of the USA has too much power. In future times a very dangerous, mentally unstable, or unwise person could be in control and wreak havoc on the world.
The American public like many Canadians knows little of the real issues. A poll I read stated that 47% of the American public polled believed that Canada supported the USA in the invasion of Iraq. Sadly uninformed.
I believe that Canada can be very self sufficient; We can provide all the necessities of life for ourselves (Food, water, electrical power, oil, technology) Our greatest dependency on the USA would be medical research and money; they need our oil (maybe needed) and electrical power.
While, I am not advocating we shouldn't promote trade with the USA; I believe we should seek more diverse trading partners to ensure we are not pressured to make any federal decisions to protect our economy, A more diverse trading partnerships would make us less at risk of having our economy severely affected by American economic problems.
Trading with smaller, poorer nations could have the effect of improving that countries economy and make the world a more economically balance place as long as we make sure that we do not exploit the people or labour of these countries.
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