RyansWorld: Canadamerica

From Future

National Flag of Canadamerica (2020-2092), entitled Maple Leaf, Stars and Stripes, included thirty-four stars to represent the country's thirty-four provinces (The former American States were consolidated to form provinces comparable in size to those of the former Canada and to pay homage to the former American flag.)

For more information on Canadamerica's territories and protectorates, please click on this link. For a list of Canadamerica's Provinces, please click on this link. For a easy to read timeline on the history of Canadamerica, please click on this link.

The United Provinces of Canada and America, better known as Canadamerica, is a superpower that was formed in the year 2020, as a result of a merger between Canada and the United States of America. The new confederation was formed under the Obama administration after the Second Canadian Civil War (the first Canadian Civil War was held way back in 1837). Its power and influence rank 2nd in the world behind the European Union but ahead of People's Republic of China and India. In 2033, under the Chirila administration it waged the Caribbean War, where Canadamerica managed to win the war by the year 2039, and acquire large portions of the Caribbean region as U.N. Trust Territories (despite massive student protest against the war).

[edit] History

On January 1, 2019, the lower peninsula of the former American state of Michigan became a part of Ontario (the upper peninsula became a part of the province of Lakotah), and Windsor and Detroit merge to become one city, Windroit. Exactly one year later, the two Niagara Falls would unite under a single municipal government. As a result of this, the Caesars Windsor was renamed Caesars Windroit in order to not confuse patrons. Casino dealers, pit bosses, managers, and executives alike had to learn a new currency system as the old Canadian and American dollars became invalid on January 1, 2022. Fortunately for gamblers, all winnings on casino earnings, game shows, and contests are considered by Canadamerican law to be "tax free."

The 2020s would see the remnants of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the U.S. Marshals combine their manpower, budgets, and skills to become the Royal Canadamerican Mounted Police. Although this arrangement would not be finalized until the summer of 2028, criminals prowling the city streets and rural highways would cower in fear of the efficiency of this new national police force, which would quickly earn the nickname "cramps." This moniker was earned because they would often arrest a criminal in a very quick and surgical manner. The 2020s would also see women replace their bras with camisoles, just like their great-great-grandmothers replaced their corsets with bras during the 1920s. This "sexual revolution" would divide daughters and mothers for years to come. Eventually, bras were no longer considered mainstream by the mid 2040s, and daughters, mothers, and granddaughters alike were wearing camisoles instead of bras by the 2050s.

By the 22nd century, this nation will be absorbed into the United States of Earth and be represented by their global parliament.

[edit] Government

The capital cities of Canadamerica are Niagara Falls (executive) and Windroit (judiciary). The former city is the center of Canadamerica's Federal District, which encompasses that city's entire metropolitan area. The reason that Niagara Falls was chosen over Washington D.C. or Ottawa, Ontario is that the small city is centrally located between the former U.S. and Canada. Also, the city didn't have the corruption or close proximity to corrupt organisations as the former American capital or another large city such as New York City or Toronto and was not as heavily damaged by the fighting during the Civil War as those cities were.

Canadamerica's government type will be a constiutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy and will have a population of over 500 million people. By the year 2050, Canadamerica will have 34 provinces. The official languages of Canadamerica will be English and French. Citizens of Canadamerica will be referred to as Canadamericans, or C.A.s, and the national old age pension will be referred to as the Canadamerican Pension Plan (CPP). This pension is given in a reduced amount to people between the ages of 55 to 64, and in an unreduced amount to people who are 65 years of age or older. In order to be eligible to vote in a Canadamerican general election, one must be not guilty of a felony (a person's voting rights are restored six months after the termination of a prison sentence for a misdemeanor).

[edit] Consitutional Amendments

(valid as of December 31, 2082)

[edit] Amendments 1-11

• Amendment 1: Freedom of Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, and Protest are Protected
• Amendment 2: Right to bear arms.
• Amendment 3: No quartering of soldiers in private homes.
• Amendment 4: No unwarranted search and seizures.
• Amendment 5: No double jeopardy, and ensures a trial by a jury, and rights of the accused.
• Amendment 6: Right to a speedy public trial with legal counsel.
• Amendment 7: Trial by jury for civil cases.
• Amendment 8: No cruel or unusual punishment, or excessive bail.
• Amendment 9: Any rights not mentioned are rights of the people.
• Amendment 10: Reserved Rights to the States.
• Amendment 11: Judicial separation of states and federal government.

[edit] Amendments 12-22

• Amendment 12: Establishes the Vice President for a vote by the electoral college.
• Amendment 13: Abolishes Slavery.
• Amendment 14: States must abide by constitutional law, and defines anyone born in the US (Candamerica) as a US (Canadamerican) citizen.
• Amendment 15: Former slaves can vote, and voters cannot be discriminated against based on race.
• Amendment 16: Income Tax.
• Amendment 17: Direct Election of Senators.
• Amendment 18: Prohibition
• Amendment 19: Women's right to vote.
• Amendment 20: Shortens lame duck period, and establishes VP as Presidential successor.
• Amendment 21: Repeals 18th Amendment.
• Amendment 22: 2 Presidential terms established as term limits.

[edit] Amendments 23-33

• Amendment 23: DC gains presidential electors.
• Amendment 24: No taxes for voting.
• Amendment 25: Provides for temporary removal of President and temporary transfer of powers to VP.
• Amendment 26: 18 year old voting age.
• Amendment 27: Limits congressional pay raises.
• Amendment 28: Creates a balanced budget, but ensures deficit spending during a time of economic crisis.
• Amendment 29: Right to quality education from pre-kindergarten to doctoral level.
• Amendment 30: Right to quality health care, and social security.
• Amendment 31: All female citizens over the age of 15 years of age have a right to a job regardless of disability, sexuality orientation, race, creed, or other forms of diversity.
• Amendment 32: Everyone has a right to have a home. All municipal governments in addition to all provincial governments as well as the federal government must assist people who cannot pay their rent, mortgage, utilities, and/or property taxes. Homeless people will be rounded up and placed in residential work units for 10 years.
• Amendment 33: Having a high school diploma is mandatory; people who fail to possess a high school diploma or G.E.D. become disenfranchised and lose all civil rights upon reaching age of majority.

[edit] Amendments 34-40

• Amendment 34: Abolishes 16th Amendment.
• Amendment 35: The sending and/or receiving of television signals is illegal in all forms.
• Amendment 36: Being overweight is a misdemeanor, being obese is a felony.
• Amendment 37: Death penalty is abolished.
• Amendment 38: Establishes a Parliament building for each planet with a population of more than 3,000,000 people (30 electoral ridings). Representatives may physically assemble at the local Parliament building and be holographically represented in the Parliament on Earth.
• Amendment 39: Grants equal rights to any and all female sentient life forms (cyborgs, sentient androids, alien citizens, sentient AIs, GM citizens).
• Amendment 40: Fossil fuels cannot be used for major power production or other applications (Cooking, lighting ext.) unless no other option is available. In addition the mass production of any item (Automobiles, aircraft ext.) that requires fossil fuels to work is prohibited by federal stature.

[edit] Canadamerica's major political parties

• Conservative Party of Canadamerica (merger of the Conservative Party of Canada and the United States Republican Party)
• Liberal Party of Canadamerica (merger of the Liberal Party of Canada and the United States Democratic Party)
• Green Party of Canadamerica

[edit] Canadamerica's minor political parties

• Marijuana Party
• Libertarian Party
• Coalition to Criminalize Television (merged with the Green Party after 2040)
• Communist Party of Canadamerica

[edit] Prime Ministers of Canadamerica

• 2020-2024: Hillary Rodham Clinton (New Hampshire, Liberal) and Stephen Harper (Alberta, Conservative) (Duumvirate, tenure of the latter was prolonged by civil war emergencies)
• 2024-2032: Jill Roberta Tynan (Quebec, Liberal)
• 2032-2036: Rita Chirila (Maryland, Liberal)
• 2036-2044: Chris Hunter (Manitoba, Conservative)
• 2044-2052: Shona Bracken (Ontario, Liberal)
• 2052-2060: Stephanie Hu (Pacifica, Liberal)
• 2060-2068: Joseph Blake (Jamaica, Liberal)
• 2074-2082: Katherine Montgomery (Vinland, Conservative)
• 2082-2090: Nora Lender (Quebec, Liberal)
• 2090: Absorbed into the United States of Earth

[edit] Currency

Canadamerica's currency will be the amero, which will be considered a valid currency in the states, territories, and protectorates of Canadamerica. The amero will be exchange with other currency's such as Euro and Chinese yuan. As with all decimalized currency, 100 cents will equal 1 amero.

[edit] Currency units

• 1 cent - penny
• 5 cents - nickel
• 10 cents - dime
• 25 cents - quarter
• 50 cents - half amero
• 1 ameros - full amero
• 2 ameros - double amero
• 5 ameros - quintuple amero
• 10 ameros - decuple amero
• 100 ameros - centuple amero

[edit] Social development

[edit] LGBT rights in Canadamerica

Civil unions will be recognized nationwide. Any laws discriminating against people who practice homosexuality currently in place by the states, territories, and protectorates of Canadamerica will be immediately repealed after officially becoming a member of the Republic of Canadamerica. Same-sex common law couples will receive near identical benefits to heterosexual common law couples, regardless of where they live in Canadamerica. Discrimination against the employment of homosexuals will deliver fines and/or imprisonment to the employer(s), regardless of the occupation or industry of the workplace.

However, they will not be allowed to adopt children younger than 6 years of age. The reason behind this is that children in their first five years of life need to learn from both a female and a male role model and having two male or two female parents can alter the development of a young child significantly, either making him too masculine or too effeminate. In response to gay rights protesters suggesting that this law is still unfair, adoption agencies will go holistic and declare that this law is "for the good for the mind, body, and soul of the child."

[edit] Health care in Canadamerica

Canadamerica will have an universal health care system. All emergency operations and maternity (including artificial wombs and human cloning procedures) will be free via the use of a nationwide health card. There will be three types of Canadamerican health cards: silver, gold, and VIP. Silver cards don't have an annual fee but are only good in Canadamerica proper (Canada and the United States). Gold cards have a $100/year fee and are valid in the territories (but not protectorates) of Canadamerica as well as in Canadamerica proper. VIP health cards cost $1,000/year and can be used in all the states, territories, and protectorates of Canadamerica.

[edit] Sports and popular culture

[edit] Professional Sports

NASCAR will remain as one of the major fixtures of Canadamerican popular culture even though most of its sanctioned race tracks will be destroyed in the Canadian Civil War by bomber planes and Canadian rebels. The reconstruction of these speedways after the war will boost NASCAR's popularity in Canadamerica by 400%. Due to its multicultural heritage, Canadamerica will also be the biggest market for world music. Desperate attempts will be made both during and after the civil war to keep the NHL, Major League Soccer, Major League Baseball, the NFL, and the NBA profitable and in business. It would be considered bad morale for any of these leagues to suspend their operations during the war.

[edit] Olympics

The 2028 Summer Olympics in Nairobi, Kenya would give Canadamerica some pride and gold medals in the baseball (finishing ahead of Japan) and American football (finishing ahead of the United Kingdom) events, among others. However, with these medals came with a price. 33% of all male athletes in the 2028 Summer Olympic Games would perish in the Caribbean War as conscripts, fighting a war similar to the Vietnam War of the 1960s, except it's closer to home, and only suborbital weapons managed to help Canadamerica avoid defeat.

[edit] Canadamerican men's national soccer team

During the 2020 FIFA World Cup (rescheduled from 2018 due to temporary international turmoil), Canadamerica (consisting mostly of players from the former American national soccer team) won more games than they have lost, and won the World Cup finals by defeating England with a score of 2-1. This will be credited to a national soccer program, funding the sport from the toddler level all the way to the national U-17 clubs, U-20 clubs, and to the Major League Soccer organization. By the 2030s, they will have earned 4 consecutive gold medals in the Olympic Games.

However, the retirement of a crucial midfielder in the year 2065 will finally end the winning dynasty of the Canadamerican men's national soccer team. Since then, Canadamerica has only been to the World Cup three times (2066, 2074, and 2082), and they have never advanced past the semi-final after losing the best midfielder in all of Canadamerican soccer history. Children and grandchildren from the Canadamerican men's national soccer team would eventually become elite all-stars in the interplanetary soccer league and lead the United States of Earth to many victories against the Alpha Centauri Trackers and the Mars Rovers.

[edit] Music and television

American Idol and Canadian Idol will merge sometime in the 2020s to become Canadamerican Idol. Ruben Studdard and Ryan Malcolm will split hosting duties, and there will be six judges instead of three. In the satellite television world, Star Choice and DirecTV will merge to become Direct Choice. Its competitor will be ExpressDish, which will be the result of a merge between Bell ExpressVu and Dish Network.

Until television was banned globally in the year 2040, popular television programs in Canadamerica included Deal or No Deal (the show was forced to scrap its female models in 2010 due to production costs - that portion of the show was replaced with voice-activated crystal balls that revealed the prize amount), Canadamerican Idol, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, and Hockey Night in Canadamerica. Major television stations included Canadamerican Broadcasting System (CBS), Canadamerican Television (CTV), National Broadcasting Company (NBC), and the Canadamerican Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). FOX was forced to return to exclusively making motion pictures and ABC (American Broadcasting Company) was forced to go into bankruptcy. These events were the result of the economic damage caused in the Canadian Civil War. Although The CW managed to weather the economic crisis and the civil war, the station finally folded in the fourth quarter of 2029 due to financial concerns and a declining young female audience.

[edit] Cultural centers

There were many cultural centers in the former Canada and the U.S. before the civil war, including Vancouver, New York, Toronto, Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas. However, most of them were either heavily damaged or destroyed by nuclear weapons during the Canadian Civil War or by hostile actions during the Caribbean War.

Because of this, Simcoe, Ontario, formerly a relatively obscure town in southern Canada, was able to become a major cultural center. With a population of over 30,000 people (combined with the rest of Norfolk County would make it just over 78,000 people). This progress started back in 2008 when the tobacco farmers were forcibly bought out in order to add more factories, stores, office buildings and housing for the industrial workers that replace the tobacco farms. Another action that transformed Simcoe from a retirement community to a cultural center was the radical plan in the year 2017 to transform the entire downtown shopping area from a car-friendly "Main Street" environment into a huge shopping mall so that people can buy stuff without having to cross the street. By 2027, this downtown shopping mall forced all the other shopping malls in Simcoe to shut down because all the youthful stores were lured to this location. Therefore, all the profits returned to the downtown.