#20 Canada, looking ahead at the biggest threat

I personally feel that the biggest threat to Canada in the next 50 years will be economically related. My reasons for believing this are simply.

Canada relies hugely on other countries importing Canadian goods. With the recent economic crisis Canada has lost billions of dollars because other countries have made cuts on the amount of produce that they imported from Canada. Although Canada has come through the recent recession with less debt than most countries, Canada depends mostly on the US, which has been hit hard by the economic crisis.

This dependancy on America is what I see as ultimately being the main reason for Canada's economy being threatened in the future. Until America sorts our their own economic problems, Canada will continue to lose money. The biggest problem with this is that Canada can do very little to change this situation, especially because forming new economic ties with other countries will be extremely difficult, seeing as every major country that would be interested in trading more with canada is currently in debt.

I personally think that it is going to take a very long time before the World - and Canada's economies return back to the healthy state they were before the 2008 world recession occurred. This is why when I look forward into the next 50 years, for Canada, the economy will by far be the most pressing issue.