Look there is a large portion like Russia of land that is virtually useless to agriculture. The US does not have as large an area and for Canada that has been within 120 miles of the US border, the US does not largely have those limits. When I was comparing Toronto to Chicago I was suggesting that if Canada was part of the US it would be the US's number two or three largest city that is all.
Why the USA and not Brazil?
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And it still has enough productive land to feed three times its current population. If you're so hung up on arable land statistics then you may be interested in knowing that Canada has 28% as much arable land as the US, yet only has 11% of America's population. Even if we account for differences in soil quality it should be abundantly clear than Canada could boast a significantly larger population. Certainly it couldn't usurp America, but I think the same applies equally if not even more so to Argentina and Chile.
I'd have to disagree, if anything a fully anglicized Montreal would be the biggest city America would gain from owning Canada. If anything Toronto would probably be smaller, but Hamilton and other industrial cities of Ontario would probably be bigger.
As to the first part I am not saying you guys cannot host a larger population as to the second part I did not know that
Actualy we had more than enought money for such projects, but they where white elephants.
The niterói river bridge.
The Itaipú power plant.
The transamazonic roadway.
Those three have three things in common:
1) They were built during the us sponsored military regime.
2) They were paid by IMF loans.
3) They were ultra money laundering scandals.
After the coup the USA flooded Brazil with credit, and we made the PAEG (plan of governmenta action), a very austeric and responsible economic plan, but after the hardline of the army took over in 1968 they scrapped it and made the PND (national plan of development) that was based purely on increasing the government spending to give the ilusion of economical growth, so while most of the regions remained stagnated (some of them even got poorer because the army removed the social policies and concetrated their efforts in the southeast), other areas had those huge projects ongoing basically burning money, until the second oil shock broke it. The Transamazonic roadway looks like crap because we ran out of credit in 1977, when it still was being built, and so the project was scrapped overnight.
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Huh, well that's depressing. So what were some things that the PAEG called for?Actualy we had more than enought money for such projects, but they where white elephants.
The niterói river bridge.
The Itaipú power plant.
The transamazonic roadway.
Those three have three things in common:
1) They were built during the us sponsored military regime.
2) They were paid by IMF loans.
3) They were ultra money laundering scandals.
After the coup the USA flooded Brazil with credit, and we made the PAEG (plan of governmenta action), a very austeric and responsible economic plan, but after the hardline of the army took over in 1968 they scrapped it and made the PND (national plan of government) that was based purely on increasing the government spending to give the ilusion of economical growth, so while most of the regions remained stagnated (some of them even got poorer because the army removed the social policies and concetrated their efforts in the southeast), other areas had those huge projects ongoing basically burning money, until the second oil shock broke it. The Transamazonic roadway looks like crap because we ran out of credit in 1977, when it still was being built, and so the project was scrapped overnight.
It was executed between november of 1964 and march of 1967 during the dictatorship of Castello Branco, it was written by the liberal economist Roberto Campos, it was based on "Scientifical rigour, good sense and the participation of the community", they:
1) To reduce the government defict, while increasing the growth back to 1963 levels.;
2) The switch from the Proccess of Replacement of Importantions to a export economy;
3) Labour policies, including the flattening of wages.
This is a overly simplification, but I found no english text about the PAEG, however you might try to use the google translator to translate this.