Ryerson University: Diane Francis

Diane Francis: Every 20 years or so, this wacky idea rolls around: Lets merge the United States and Canada. Now beating this trans-border drum is Diane Francis, a journalist and management professor at Ryerson University in Toronto. Francis has just published 'Merger of the Century: Why Canada and America Should Become One Country.', according to The Chronicle Herald. Writing on the New Yorker web site, the all-but-Canadian Adam Gopnik went to McGill; must be smart warmed to Franciss proposed merger with Snow Mexico: 'Match American gee-whiz with Canadian let s-see, and it will produce a super country, Gopnik wrote, rather like a marriage between a dull, stable person who owns a nice chunk of land and a slightly crazed but still attractive one who needs some stability after a wild stretch and Well, why not? Canadians could enjoy some balmy weather for a change, and Americans could get some decent health care, without worrying about a kludgey website that may or may not be up and running by the next election cycle. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.