RE:A suggestion for a better soltuion
The United States is not Canada's friend.
Keep the oil in the ground.
Do not let any crude out of the country. Refine everything here.
Build a Canadian Strategic Reserve
Partner with Toyota that has a new diamond battery technololgy. It is in beta trial now. It outlasts your life time and any vehicle.
https://ndb.technology/
Build the Bearing Strait Crossing and put high speed trains on to connect the world. That will take planes out of the sky.
Give everyone on the world free contraceptives
Take down the borders. The world is intigrated now. Finish the job. Borders went down in Europe, people can live where ever they want in Europe, no passported needed.
Establish universal health care for everyone in the world.
Establish food security for everyone.
Decentralize government.
And much more.........