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>"where America goes, the West soon follows"...except for:

Military Budget

Vietnam

Iraq

Torture

Financial deregulation and "shadow banking" (no Canadian bank went under or needed a bailout)
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America is "exceptional" in many ways, other nations *cannot* follow.

America would not qualify to join the EU, because your Senate and Elect. College make it too undemocratic under EU rules.

Pollster Michael Adams has done much work on how Canada is *diverging* from American culture.