Communications Security Establishment http://www.cse.dnd.ca/ ftp://ftp.cse.dnd.ca/pub/ Royal Canadian Mounted Police Information Technology Security Branch http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cgi-bin/rcmpbold.pl/html/itsb-e.htm SEIT - Security Evaluation and Inspection Team CISU - Computer Investigative Support Unit CTIU - Counter Technical Intrusion Unit Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/ Canadian Security Intelligence Service http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/ The Hentai Summoning Circle http://members.tripod.com/~WitchBoard/index.htm Canadian World Domination http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/2936/ One of Cussler's Dirk Pitt movels. Dirk "Raiser of the Titanic, Rescuer of the President, Saver of the World (Several Times)" Pitt finds a treaty where the Brits signed over Canada to the US in WW1 in exchange for cash. How exactly the British could sign over someone else's country isn't clear but they did it in 1938 in real life so I suppose anything's possible. "Night Probe!" Being something of a Manifest Destiny man I really enjoyed the novel when I read it as a lad about 15 years ago. The actual price was title to Canada for one billion dollars in gold bullion, which seems a little low even in 1914 pre-inflation prices. Since then I've wondered about its feasibility in just the manner you have suggested, but my temporary conclusion is that it would arguably be conceivable for Britain to have the legal right to do this before the Statute of Westminster in 1931, or whatever it was that resulted from one of those interwar Imperial Conferences that officially decided Canada could have its own _de jure_ foreign policy, never mind that it had probably been doing just that since WWI at least. Whaddya think? By the way, Pitt's Commander in Chief was rather magnanimous when he revealed the treaty in an address to the Canadian Parliament at the close of the novel. He used terms like "unification" and "merger", and even proposed renaming the country the "United States of Canada", an idea which Ben Wattenberg (a native Canadian, IIRC?) proposed exactly the same term in a pro-annexation piece in his syndicated column this summer just past. It does have a nice ring to it. It is also interesting how many native