Canada is the second largest country on Earth and one of the most sparsely populated,[1] and Canada has already laid claim to a vast swath of the Arctic that it

Canada is the second largest country on Earth and one of the most sparsely populated,[1] and Canada has already laid claim to a vast swath of the Arctic that it has neither the will nor the means to settle or defend.[2] For you to lust after a single square inch of another nation's soil is greed of a particularly galling and egregious quality. Canada chose to remain a servile possession of a foreign monarch until 1931 (and in some respects, remains such even to the present day), and one of the consequences of that choice was having the UK manage your foreign affairs and your mother country's desire to maintain good relations with the US resulting in Canada getting the short end of the diplomatic stick. Frankly, I am still bitter about the Oregon Territory boundary dispute[3] and even the very existence of British Columbia, a Canadian "Polish Corridor" separating Alaska from the rest of the continental United States. That Americans require passports to drive to and from Alaska--on a highway that was originally constructed by the US Army, no less--is utterly reprehensible. You're delusional if you think Alaskans would ever choose to (or could somehow be coerced to) join your country. Even if you took the queen off your money and out of your Constitution and amended your beloved Charter so it actually protected freedom of speech, private property rights, and other fundamental freedoms Alaskans hold sacred, they would balk at having share their oil wealth through transfer/equalization payments (which don't exist in the US) with the rest of Canada. If anything, it's far more likely that Alberta would secede and join the US, if only to avoid subsidizing the other provinces any longer, or that Quebec would become an independent nation. You and other Canadian nationalists should aim towards trying to keep what you already have--which, in my opinion, is far too much as it is. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_by_population_density http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_by_population_density 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_arctic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_arctic 3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_boundary_dispute http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_boundary_dispute