Here's what happens:

Higher taxes, Government arrogance and malaise, a military that might be able to fend off an assault from Luxembourg, and one nice two-lane highway from coast to coast...however, it is safer to live here, what with that billion-dollar gun registry thingy...

edit: My observation about the gun registry was tongue-in-cheek, Canada is not any safer today even though a whole lot of money was spent to force law-abiding people to register their guns...