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I'll start. Even though I'm a "Yank" I read my share of "Canadian content." I just finished reading the book, The Great Lone Land, by William Francis Butler, was a thrill to read. I was led to this book by The Impossible Railway: The Building of the Canadian Pacific, by Pierre Berton. The Burton book relied extensively on The Great Loan Land's description of pre-railroad conditions. Or, to quote Gordon Lightfoot, "There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run, when the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun, Long before the white man and long before the wheel, when the green dark forest was too silent to be real." This book describes a world that is almost unreal; deeply isolated, with bone-warping cold and only recently teaming with bison. The Great Lone Land strikes me as a Canadian Journal of Lewis and Clark. Some of the material echoes that found in 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann. In particular, the author details the depredations of the smallpox virus on First Nations/Native Americans. The author, William Francis Butler, was commissioned by William McDougall, Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories (then covering most of Canada west of Ontario except for a much smaller province of Manitoba) to: "1) report upon the whole question of the existing state of affairs in that territory, and to state your views on what may be necessary to be done in the interest of peace and order; 2)ascertain, as far as you can, in what places and among what tribes of Indians, and what settlements of whites, the small-pox is now prevailing, including the extent of its ravages; 3) ascertain, as far as in your power, the number of Indians on the line between Red River and the Rocky Mountains; the different nations and tribes into which they are divided and the particular locality inhabited, and the language spoken, and also the names of the principal chiefs of each tribe." (paraphrased). This book was a tale of his fascinating journey, from October 1870 to February or March 1871, through what Butler called "The Great Lone Land." The journey started at Fort Garry, near modern Winnipeg, thence west to modern Edmonton, southwest to Rocky Mountain House, then returning to the Red River area of Winnipeg. During his journey he intercoursed with the Metis (he called them "half-breeds"), First Nations (called "Indians" at the time) and white settlers and members of the military. The Appendix is essential reading. It contains McDougall's original orders, and the report Butler filed about two months after his journey. Books such as these are rare, and hard to get. I will email PDF's of the book to anyone who requests and supplies an email address, since the book is no longer under copyright. My edition of the book goes to 351 pages, 384 with the appendix.

So only about ninety nine points higher on the scale of morality than Donald Trump?

That's right. Canadians don't care as long as they have the Canadian essentials in life- a hockey game, and a bottle of beer.And now they have what is essentially government-grown dope. Thanks to J. Trudeau: "Opium is the opium for the masses." - Albert E. Oftenwrong

Trudeau's early response in Jan., Feb., and half of March was horrendously bad. There was virtually no action in helping the problem. Flights weren't restricted, there was no airport screening, we gave away out PPE to China etc. He's more concerned about being PC than defending this country, and Canadians have DIED because of it. Trump, for all his stupidity since then, at least had the balls to close down travel from China and the UK early on, in freaking January!, and he was hammered for it. This is why you ignore the PC crowd and offending people and just do what's right. The moronic WHO not only recommended against the public wearing masks, but it recommended AGAINST travel restrictions because it was said to have no real effect and that the virus "was destined to spread" no matter what. The WHO is, sadly, incompetent, they failed the world when it really needed them. Trump retaliates because of their nonsense and people again freak out. I'm not a Trump flag-waver but the total insanity where 100% of his decisions are automatically labeled as wrong needs to stop. Just look at things without emotions. His domestic policy is a mess, but his foreign policy, for the most part, has been surprisingly decent.

The Trudeau government was put on notice in early February....not March 11th (NBA shutdown...not western world).

Even our own holier-than-thou PM, who likes nothing more than pontificating about bigotry and jumping on every bandwagon that rolls along, outright refuses to condemn public hate rallies against Jews. What's even worse is that the bigotry stats against Jews are conveniently assumed to come from right-wing and/or white-Canadians, and anyone who's seen a quds-day hate rally knows where the actual bigotry against Jews comes from in this country. We also have an outspoken bigot (yusra khogali) LEADING our BLM cult in Canada, is she banned from Twitter? She has also posted vile, bigoted comments on FB and I doubt that she's banned there either.

He was losing in every poll in 2016 too. How does Canada like him now ? Stick to your blackface prime minister, and how much he has failed Canada.

Sounds Gudenov for me, Alexander.