72 per cent of Albertans love the US of A. Me? Somewhat

“More than 72 per cent of Albertans see the U.S. as Canada’s best friend and nearly one in three want to scrap the border.”

In my opinion, the love-fest in the west is linked to barrels of oil and buckets of money.

Me? Can’t buy me love, as the Beatles used to say.

Other Ontarians agree.


“Those in British Columbia were the least likely to consider the U.S. as Canada’a best friend [Too many softwood lumber disputes?] while Ontarians were most in favour of the border.” [More Beatles fans in Ontario?]

At least so said a recent Leger marketing poll as reported in The London Free press yesterday.

And what age-group loves the US the most?

“The poll also found that the older the respondent, the more favourable they were to the U.S. While only 33.2% of 18-24 year olds thought the U.S. was Canada's best friend and only 15.6% of them wanted to get rid of the border, among 65-74 year olds, the poll found 75.4% considered the U.S. to be Canada's best friend and 37.4% wanted to scrap the border.”

Me? I’d like the US more if our relationship was based more on common positive ideals and less on trade, energy resources and the economy.

I’m more of a small economy type of person, waiting for conservation of resources to become more important that consumption.

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More about The Small economy in this week’s column.

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