Canada, a country with a smaller population than California, features the second-largest land mass in the world, thousands of kilometres of coastal shoreline, water, and natural resources in abundance, and a huge arctic geography where, for over a century, there was minimal predatory interest from other countries. But most Canadians live and earn a living within a few hundred kilometres of the U.S. border. We’ve enjoyed easy prosperity doing business directly or indirectly with Americans, to whom we’ve defaulted to do the heavy lifting on defence and security.
