Has the US been good to Canada?

Question

In any good way? What's that deal that they make on free trading recently.

Answer 1

The US has been very good to Canada as the US economy prospered so has to Canada economy even with it bad policy's.Canada will let anyone in the country and the livestock are raise without any standards.If Canada border Europe it would be ranked up there with strong economies like Ethiopia except for oil Canada would not have a strong industry.Canada needs to move into the modern age and understand the happy go lucky world is gone for good...

Answer 2

From the Canadian point of view, the USA is like the noisy loud mouthed family next door who do annoying things a lot of the time but they still have hearts of gold. They are interesting people to be next door to and generally fun to be with, even if you disagree with them now and then. There is no other country Canada would really rather be next door to.

Answer 3

hey joe canada we havent invaded .YET>look if the us wasn't good for canada why would 95% of its population live within 100 miles of the usa?they do have as much land mass as us.so i guess you can say we are as good to canada as any host is to its parasite.

Answer 4

What's this all aboot?  Of course we have been good to them, but I believe we really shouldn't have any dealings with them since they support terrorism.

Answer 5

In recent times I think its been a wash. And by that I mean, not great, not bad.

On free trade. The fact is that Canada has a much larger supply of natural resources than america does. I guess the original idea under nafta was it'd give american companies the ability to go into canada and harvest, then sell, those resources domestically and globally. But what its moreso resulted in is canadian(or american) companies paying workers in canada to harvest those resources and sell them to america, at the same price as american suppliers. Canada has got the better of the US on free trade. As it should. To suggest the US would get the better, when not having as much resources, would be assuming exploitation. Canada is not a 3rd world country.

But in the broader scheme of things the trade relationship between the two is so close that considering how similar the two are, other issues fall by the wayside. The US hasn't been "good" to Canada, but it hasn't been "bad". It doesn't work like that. The two share such similar interests its all a wash.

Answer 6

Depends...

I have to give a qualified answer... Yes and No.

On certain issues, the US has been great (and not just because they are our largest trading partner, bar none!). However, on other issues, the US is the largest millstone about our necks. (NAFTA being the largest, since it benefits primarily the US, and when the US runs afoul of the rules, they ignore them, but expect Canada and Mexico to toe the line and follow the rules that the US doesn't seem to beleive applies to them!)

In general, the US is good to the the US first, and Canada only when it is to the best interest of the US. The fact that it happens that US interests are such that Canada reaps the benefits more often than not helps, but still... Being on the good side of the neighbourhood bully still makes people see you in the wrong light.

If you truely want to see what the "party line" is on true Free Trade with Canada, look into History. Back in the late 1800's, the US begged a Free Trade policy out of Canada, then repudiated it as being too dangerous to the US economy a few years later.

The US has also invaded "Canada" two or three times, and sent forces into Canadian territory just after the Civil War. Each time they were chased back across the border (*usually* with minimal losses on either side). (Even today, Canadian Forces troops tend to win the wargames the two countries' Militaries periodically engage in. ;) )

So...as I said...Yes and No. On some issues, Canada has, and can have, no complaints...on other issues, the US cause more damage than they bring benefit. It tends to ballance out almost perfectly even.

Good Luck!

EDIT: Twice BItten...the reason that the majority of the population lives within 200km of the international border is due to CLIMATE, not easy access to overpriced and low quality goods in US malls... We can usually buy the same goods in Canadian malls for the almost the same price after you factor in gas, duty, exchange (even at 99 cents to the dollar), hotels, food, etc...right down to the same quality. :D That plus the fact that 80% or more of Quebec and Ontario's population is in the south near the St. Lawrence Seaway/South Shore (Quebec) and St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes (Ontario). Between those two population figures, you have almost half of the Country's 36 million people! With the exception of the few rare people who live "up north" because they love the land (or because they were born there and either haven't *yet* moved, or are too lazy to do so), or because of an Economic reason (i.e.: mining or similar jobs).

Answer 7

- Billions in illegal taxes against NAFTA on softwood lumber.

- Banning pork from entering the US from Canada (foot and mouth).

- Banning beef from entering the US from Canada (mad cow).

- Attacking Canada for fearing Canada (1812).

- Sending a Canadian child to Guantanamo for sleep deprivation, which is torture (Omar Khadr).

- Sending a Canadian IT Consultant to Syria for torture (Maher Arar).

- Treating Canadian visitors as terrorists at the US border (personal experienceS).

They haven't been the greatest.

Answer 8

Yes.  Canada and the United States have the world's largest trading relationship, with huge quantities of goods and people flowing across the border each year. Since the 1987 Canadian–American Free Trade Agreement there have been no tariffs on most goods passed between the two countries.

However, prominent Canadian politicians have recently since been outed as spies for Russia by master spy Sergei Tretyakov.  The most prominent was member of parliament, Alex Kindy.  In his book "Comrade J" Tretyakov personally recruited 5 Canadian spies for the KGB.