With the meltdown of the global economy would now be an impromptu time to form political union with Canada?

I wouldn't encourage it....a global meltdown means ALL nations are in an economical crisis. But if Barbados had to unify with another country i'd pick Trinidad & Guyana like proposed in '95. They're closer, culturally similar (quite a lot of guyanese in B'dos at the moment) and it'd be pushing the West Indies forward, not being what Hawaii is to the USA for Canada- Thousands of miles away from the mainland and it's just a tourist destination for the mainland people.