United States of America + Canada?

[allenmaher]

Adinnieken said:

Viltgance said:
For the record im Canadian and have alot of American friends and love the U.S.A.
I say no though cause i don't want the NSA spying on me ;)

Funny you should say that...

The US and Canada share a facility housed in Canada used to monitor phone calls.  Since the 1960's, all phone calls get routed through this facility.

The facility is in Canada to circumvent US law prohibiting US agents from spying on US citizens.   But there's nothing preventing Canadian agents from spying on US citizens for the US government or agents of the US outside of the US from intercepting phone calls to or from US citizens.

The CSE the Canadian Secrity Establishment (our cyber spies) cooperate with the NSA on a regular basis and if you follow the Snowden leaks are no less guilty of this sort of thing.  Plus they just built a massive complex to facilitate an increase in this sort of activity, so this is a common Orwellian problem for the two nations.