I've always believed that the only reason they haven't brought this up with Canada is that it would result in 30 million left-of-center voters being added. Of c

I've always believed that the only reason they haven't brought this up with Canada is that it would result in 30 million left-of-center voters being added. Of course if when you say "western" you just mean Alberta that problem would be assuaged, perhaps. Though I think even the most strident right wing voters in Canada are still to Obama's left. Anyway it would be Democratic governments as far as you care to extend the timeline. There's oil in eastern Canada too, btw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernia_%28oil_field%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernia_%28oil_field%29 and in the north: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_petroleum_industry_in_Canada_%28frontier_exploration_and_development%29#Mackenzie_delta_and_the_Beaufort_Sea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_petroleum_indust...