FutureFile: Frank Ogden, who is also known as Dr. Tomorrow, thinks Canada and the United States will form a pan-North American country called the United States of North American, or U.S.N.A., for short.

A tsunami building up in North America heralds change of historic proportions that simply could not have happened or even have been considered way back in the 20th century.

The American Association of Travel Writers, having absorbed most members domestically, is looking for new frontiers.

This organization is holding their largest convention ever later this month in Wales.

Canadian members are talking about the generous deal

The Welsh government, aware of the clout of this group, is subsidizing the conference.

Entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has set a low airfare. To attract more Canadian members to the association, the package shown in U.S. dollars is available to Canadians at par -- an additional 33-per-cent discount.

Wouldn't many more workers around the world in that or any other industry be willing to join similar groups with such seductive incentives?

Today's hottest market? The so-called B2B and e-commerce. Business over the global internet. The U.S. market is buzzing but mature in many fields beyond the Net. Their urge to 'go global' becomes more pressing.

How to get Canadians to buy their productions over the Internet?

A U.S. manufacturer with a 300-million people market is making good money. Do they really need more profit when acquiring a larger market share can make them more money even if they sell at par and on the surface make no profit? Yes.

The slight increase in volume shrinks overall costs and the fixed costs remain static. Now that Mississippi is out of the hole, let's help our poorer Canadian cousins, they say, by also accepting Canadian dollars at par.

Americans are generous, daring entrepreneurs. Sooner than most people would imagine, an American politician, either shortly before or just after an election will invite Canadians to join the expanding United States of North American. They have added only one word.

The united 60 states would be home to more people than the European Community. It could be established before the currently getting linked ASEAN community of Asia gets their act together.

Minor incentives could easily be thrown in. Cash holdings of all Canadians with bank deposits, and other convertibles instruments, would, on joining day, -- say July 4th, 2001 -- be instantly convertible to U.S. dollars at par!. We are all really North Americans now.

Property, real estate and businesses would keep their present value but from now on sell in U.S.N.A. dollars fixed at the present U.S. dollar value.

The Canadian national debt (a huge $80,000 Cdn per family of four) would be absorbed into the American debt, but because we now total 330 million, the burden per captia would drop dramatically. Present Canadian Military personnel could join the U.S.N.A. forces at present U.S. rate of pay and luxurious benefits and pensions, with rank and seniority intact.

Canadians now considered rich (in top tax bracket) as far as tax brackets go when they earn $40,000 US ($60,000 Cdn) will find they can earn up to $325,000 US before falling into the much lower U.S.N.A. rate of 31 percent.

Cross-border bickering over forestry and other details would vanish. The over-regulated Canadian bureaucracy (115,000 staffers in four levels; national / provincial / regional / municipal) for 30 million people would be streamlined into the existing smaller per capita present US staff (for 300 million people) plus a massive reduction politicians on taxpayer payrolls.

Canadian and U.S. Customs would vanish. Resources saved could be directed to more pressing problems like pollution. New thinking would be heard across the land. New energy and ideas would offer motivation and incentive, such as stringing high power cables across the North Pole to Russia.

When it's dark in the new United States of North American, water that previously ran free over generating damns at night could continue generating and sending that power the Russia. When dawn breaks on the U.S.N.A., your light bulbs would be partially powered via Russian turbines.

At year's end we swap power bills.

Impossible? Airlines are already testing new Trans Polar routes. The same routes that, on the ground, would carry the new energy (packaged in innovative minimal friction cables) - bringing new meaning to the term alternating current and reciprocal wealth to both continents. World peace may become a possibility.

This is the age of risk takers. Look how many people hold shares, bonds and certificates of some type. Canadians need to associate more with winners.

Maybe 12 of the stars in the new flag could be maple leaves?

After all the Canadian prime minister has suggested it: "If you don't like our taxes you can move stateside." Why don't we take that advice?

The basic concept is inevitable.