Reply #44: Exactly. My theory is that in case of Quebec Independence, the US...

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sends "peacekeepers" to the region to help suppress the well-timed CIA-backed riots, fearful that it may spread over the border and into the Niagara region. The troops on the ground stay there, as the Canadians can't do anything with the "insurgency" in Quebec taking up most of their time and money. Then, the US offers protection to the Maritime Provinces, who might well accept seeing the actual potential for danger from the Quebec area and the reality that they are now cut off from the rest of Canada. Eventually, those provinces are offered to hold a referendum on US statehood, and the troops march in to help with the elections. Thus, the US stations troops in several Canadian provinces and with the help of Diebold acquires 5 new states and good deal of natural resources and open land.

Canada is then effectively neutered with the loss of half of their provinces...it's the NAFTA Neo-Con's wet dream...