You are too paranoid a man. We ARE NOT drifting further to the right wing. The distance between Canada's left and right is shorter than virtually anywhere else in the world. That has not changed. We are not sliding to the right nor the left. We stay "just left of centre." You may be one who describes Stephen Harper as a dictator and you are far wrong. It's like the days when people howled that Pierre Trudeau was a Communist. Political blindness. You claim that many traitorous Canadians want to join the USA and be a 51st. state. I've seen no sign of that. You sound like one of the vitriolic opponents of free trade back in 1988. Were you an NDPer or a Liberal? Well, Liberals EXPANDED free trade to NAFTA and the NDP wouldn't have touched it if they had won the last election. It's worth too much - and so is living next door to the USA. It is part of our greatness. And without Canada through its history, the USA would be drastically less of an economic giant. Go Canada Go!