This does not take into account the Alaska boundary dispute[1] which, although officially resolved in 1903, is still disputed by many Canadians.
(Note: I live about an hour away from the "disputed" border)
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
I feel like a bird watcher who just spotted a species not known to still exist.
Also, there are 311 million people in the US, and I think I speak for most of them when I say that very few of us are "over" the Oregon Territory Border Dispute.
> This does not take into account the Alaska boundary
> dispute... which, although officially resolved in
> 1903, is still disputed by many Canadians.
Irredentism is a peculiar human drive that I've never fully understood.
I'm going to guess you've never been to the area I'm talking about.
If you saw how beautiful it is, you'd understand.
I spent two years driving from Alsaka to Argentina, so I've seen a lot of the Americas. I choose to live here (right near the border) because I honestly think it's the most amazing please I saw in all of the Americas.
They vote, they demonstrate, they organize. They try to make a difference.
If enough people want something changed, it will be changed.
Simply giving up because "that's the way it is" is no way to live life.
You don't have to be bitter to dispute something.