CANADA DESIGNED TO DISINTEGRATE 

Any country can exist, even thrive when conditions are conducive to growth and collectivity. The past 125 years, plus the previous 75 years of the Industrial Revolution, have been the most opportune in human history. And the North American continent, during those same years, has been the most beneficial segment of planetary geography on which to be situated. But no place on earth remains at bat forever.

Canada, as we know it today, will not reach its 150th birthday. However, if it is any consolation neither will other large-land mass countries whose borders have been established by military conquest or political penetration (immigration). This includes, not only the U.S.S.R. which has led the way, but also China, India, the U.S., Canada and the mother of all parliaments, Great Britain. By the start of the third millennium all will have shattered.

This will likely occur regardless of what steps the government of any one of these countries takes in the interim. The process may be delayed a few months or years, but the tide is set.

Ever since the first communications satellites ignored national boundaries, the subsequent speed-up in communications has been creating a solvent that dissolves the former ties that held large land-mass countries together. That has already happened to such large empires, as the Spanish, the Portugese and even the British Empire, "on which the sun never set". It is now happening to the large contiguous, land-mass home countries.

This is not necessarily bad or good, but is simply the evolution of the planetary condition, resulting from changes brought about by technological advances. Technology now makes the laws and breaks the laws. It was ever so, since fish developed gills and birds sprouted wings. That was organic technology. Now we have inorganic technology. Already the two are mingling. There are now 72 body parts that can be inserted into humans. In the U.S. three million people are already cyborgs (home sapiens with one or more vital parts replaced by pieces of superior technology), although they may not even recognize the definition. Yet.

With knowledge now doubling at least 100 percent every 18 months and estimated to increase up to another 16 times by the end of this decade, do not be alarmed when you hear that 90 percent of all the goods and services we will interact with by the year 2001 have not even been developed as yet. That this previously unheard of phenomenon has already been at work is shown in the fact that 40 percent of the richest major companies on the FORTUNE 500 list a decade ago no longer exist. Every institution known in the past will change dramatically. Most will not survive the disruptive changes they are about to encounter. Governments are not immune to such drastic forces. Canada, a country stitched together by two distinctively different cultures, has often been accused of being created by a committee. During the easy days past, the fabric hung together because the winds of change blew softly. In a storm, loose and weak threads separate quickly.

Today the leaders of the "Keep Canada Strong" faction are putting so much effort into their cry because their very jobs depend on it. When a formerly lucrative existence moves into a danger zone, efforts to protect it increase and demands, threats and opposition to change becomes more strident. When any institutional structure starts to unravel, due to what is considered by many to be lack of long term benefits to their particular segment of a national operation, then what were previously considered minor discrepancies to other segments take on new meaning. This is especially true in instances when these other segments discover how they have been short-changed over the years. The freer flow in information of all varieties is the solvent that creates this desire to obtain a "better break" than minorities have had in the past. When this occurs, benefits that formally accrued to the majority factors appear as though they are "losing" in the new game and resentment appears. Soon impassable barriers are erected and the structure fractures.

Canada is now going through such turmoil. Don't hold your breath waiting for the 150th anniversary. It will not happen.

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