> I often see people framing the US & Canada primarily as a competition in tech. I've never heard US and Canada mentioned as competition in anything - let alon

> I often see people framing the US & Canada primarily as a competition in tech. I've never heard US and Canada mentioned as competition in anything - let alone in tech. Geographically, demographically, technologically and economically, Canada is in no position to compete with the US. > The US benefits enormously from having a wealthy, vibrant Canada, including in its tech sector. Enormously? Canada pretty much sells us their resources and some canadian manufactured US cars. We account for 76% of all canada's trade, canada represents a much smaller portion of our overall trade. One party benefits a lot more than the other party. > We're permanent allies, liberal democracies and share a very large border as well as $600 billion in goods trade. No such thing as permanent allies. Just like there is no such thing as permanent government since canada existed mostly as a nonvoting subject of a monarchy. > They're our largest export market And also one we seem to have a neverending trade deficit with. https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/top/top1912cm.html https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/t... > If anything the US should be directly helping Canada to boom in tech. Or we could help arkansas, idaho, pennsylvannia and a countless other states "boom in tech". Shouldn't Canada be the ones helping themselves? Shouldn't the US be helping ourselves? > The more the merrier. Sounds like a utopian dream.