by Carla Sutherland

Created on: March 28, 2010   Last Updated: March 29, 2010

Imagine a world where Canada's population had become so vast that it can compete with the US.  Where their numbers in the military exceeded that of the US.  Now imagine that Canada wished to widen it's borders to accommodate it's growing population. Where else is there to go but south? 

Sure there's Alaska in the north, but sustaining a growing population is easier to do in more livable climates.  Now as the border between Canada and the US is more of a line depicted by markers (no walls or visible boundaries in most areas), crossing over would be easy. 

So imagine that many thousands of people started to do this, getting permission from the Canadian government to build houses across the border in the US, with the older houses being bulldozed and their tenants kicked out. 

Canada does supply many parts of the US with most of it's electricity, so powering the houses wouldn't be a problem.  Of course some of the Americans would rise up in disagreement, but with the political sway of providing the US with 80% of it's oil stock and threatening to cut those off, opposition to the housing developments was quickly quietened.

Now imagine this going on for a few years.  More houses would be going up into the US, the Canadians slowly pushing the Americans further and further south.  Oppositions were stopped by cutting off power and other resources.  And it wasn't long before water and food began being cut off as well. 

The Americans that went into Canada and fought, or fired weapons from the US into Canada were arrested and held on terrorism charges.  Naturally the US tried to get help from it's closest neighbour, Mexico, but to no avail. 

Treaties had been made to ensure that Mexico remained on the side of the Canadians after decades of oppression by the US.  Other countries that had previously been allied to the US had even refused to help them out, for who would be the ones to attack Canada?  Canada after all, was a country with the reputation of being a friendly and non-aggressive democratic state. 

Now imagine over a decade of this.  One-third of what was once the northern half of the US had now become Canadian territory.  Uprisings were dealt with a swift blow including missile strikes and the beginning of sanctions.  Canadian-only roads started to be set up. 

Those wishing to travel on those roads that didn't have Canadian citizenship had to have a special permit. 

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