Would a borderless North America kill Canadian culture?

This paper starts from the premise that in the near future closer economic and security integration between Canada and the U.S. is inevitable. The border as we know it could conceivably disappear. We ask whether Canadian culture, broadly defined, might disappear with it.

In Canada, debates around culture form part of a larger national debate on how closely the country should integrate, economically and otherwise, with the United States, and to what extent it should mimic American institutions, be they political, social, or cultural. It is fair to say that in Canada, fears about ...

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