Are there any sequelae of emigrating to the United States?

Canada is a country with great development potential. Its huge land area and rich natural resources make it have innate development advantages that other countries can't match. Backed by the North Pole, Canada can occupy a favorable position in the future international competition. However, we also find that Canada is in an awkward position. It is a big country, but it is not a powerful country. There is a place in international conferences, but the right to speak is extremely weak. What is the reason for this embarrassment?

Geographical location of Canada: Strong enemies are on the side and development is limited.

In today's world pattern of "one super-strong", any country must take the lead if it wants to achieve long-term development. If there is no big brother behind, the final result is being beaten. Canada has long been aware of this. According to the address, it chose neighboring America as its big brother, and everything followed suit, but that's the problem.

After two wars, Canada gradually fell to the United States in the early19th century. At that time, the United States had just become independent, and ambitious emerging countries were eager to expand their territory to show their national strength. The United States turned its attention to Canada, which was then a British colony. After the war of independence, the United States was bursting with self-confidence and believed that it had the strength to fight against "not falling into the empire." And at that time, Britain was still fighting Napoleon on the European battlefield, which should not be taken into account.

The war lasted nearly two years. At the beginning of the war, the United States took the lead and won one after another. However, only a few months later, the war situation changed. First, the United States began to relax and quit the war, resulting in a shortage of troops. After the initial defeat, Britain also accumulated experience and began to counterattack.

Britain blocked the American coastline by maritime warfare, which was unstoppable and even conquered Washington, the capital of the United States. In retaliation for the United States, British troops set fire to the White House and the Capitol. At this point, there is no need to fight this war, and the two sides signed an armistice agreement.

But the United States has not given up and has been planning to annex Canada. The idea continued until the eve of World War II. After the outbreak of World War II, the United States sided with Britain, and its strategic focus shifted to dealing with Germany and Japan, thus giving up its territorial attempt against Canada. With the gradual decline of Britain after World War II, its control over Canada weakened, and Canada eventually fell to the United States.

Since World War II, the United States has become increasingly powerful, and the disintegration of the Soviet Union has made the United States the only superpower in the world. Being so close to the United States, Canada will inevitably fall to the United States, and only by falling to the United States can Canada obtain long-term conditions for economic development, but problems also follow. Canada and the United States are too close, and the United States will not let Canada become a powerful country for its own interests. This is what we usually call "how can others sleep on the other side of the sofa?"

From 65438 to 0994, the United States took the lead in establishing the North American Free Trade Area through active preparations.

The North American Trade Area seems that the three countries are equal, but the United States, as the most economically developed country, occupies a great advantage in cooperation. In fact, we have mastered the exports of Canada and Mexico, making Canada's current economy highly dependent on the United States.

In addition to the economy, Canada's basic military strength was gradually weakened after World War II. With the United States as an ally, Canada basically gave up developing its own military strength and relied on the military protection of the United States instead. Economic and military dependence on the United States led to Canada actually becoming the younger brother of the United States.

The development of Canada: it is difficult to be immune to people.

The land is vast and the population is sparse: the development momentum is insufficient. We can intuitively see the land area of Canada from the world map, but it has the problem of the development of Arctic countries: the population is too small. What's the population of Canada? Why not make an intuitive metaphor? As a country with the second land area in the world, its total area is more than 300,000 square kilometers than that of China, but its population is less than that of a province in China, only over 30 million.

The small population and abundant resources have brought a good national economy to Canada. Relying on selling resources, Canada's national income ranks among the developed countries, and the rapid increase of wealth also makes Canada a country with low fertility rate, and the aging problem is serious, which in turn brings about a shortage of labor.

Sparse population and high income have become the biggest problems in Canada's economic development at present, and insufficient population is obviously a lack of motivation. Although Canada has encouraged immigration in recent years and given generous immigration policies, the effect is not obvious.

Embarrassed international status is the sequela of the colonized country. Who is the supreme leader of Canada? Many people blurt it out without thinking. Prime minister, of course. This is actually a misunderstanding. As a colonized country, the supreme leader of Canada is still the King of England, which is what we are familiar with? Elizabeth II.

Canada's independence is actually very late. Even now, it is a Commonwealth country. As a long-term British colony, I used to listen to Britain. When Britain's strength weakened, it naturally came together with the United States.

After a long period of colonization, Canada has shown an innate dependence on others on the international stage, which makes Canada's right to speak in the international arena seem weak, and it usually just follows its big brother. But this character also makes Canada have a place in the ever-changing world pattern.

Conclusion:

Canada's low international status also tells us that in development, relying on others is often subject to others. Once we lose our independence, we will become driven chess pieces on the international stage. Only by independent development and self-reliance can we truly have our own position in the future international competition. I'm afraid this big but not strong development will not last long.