Diane Francis has an agenda and should be ignored. She's long been considered a fringe figure in Canada and writes these sorts of things to sell her books. Her

Diane Francis has an agenda and should be ignored. She's long been considered a fringe figure in Canada and writes these sorts of things to sell her books. Her general technique is to frame an "us against them" argument that Canada cannot possibly survive unless we do something ridiculously dramatic, namely adopt the US dollar and/or merge with the US.