Canada's identity is one that it has to struggle to maintain. The influence and pressure that it receives from the United States is phenomenal. It is perplexing how Canada's identity has not been overrun but the super power that is the United States, but has developed an identity based on culture, government, media and natural resources; assets that Canada struggle to maintain some control over; however, the close ties with the united states, help to …showed first 75 words of 520 total…

…showed last 75 words of 520 total…flourishing nation it is today, economically, socially, and politically. <Tab/>If American culture and ideas did not leak into Canada with the ease that it does today, Canada would not be as developed and most likely would not be as financially capable as it is at present. Although Canada's close ties with the United States do threaten their identity, without it Canada would not prosper into the nation it is today.