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Napoleon's police under Fouche was ruthless and feared. Wellington was born Arthur Wellesley and Nelson was the sixth of a clergyman's 11 children. Both earned their titles in battle.

Either you agree or you don't, it's pretty simple.

Napoleon was a monarchist, he crowned himself emperor. He made his brothers and at least one of his marshals kings, his sister, Grand Duchess of Tuscany and most of his other marshals dukes. A duke is the highest level of aristocracy for non royals. Napoleon rewarded merit for service to him. He was most definitely a despot

The difference between you and me is I don't think presidents should be able to pardon anyone who has been convicted of a crime.

You have no problem with Trump pardoning multiple people for crimes against the state.

Interesting considering Ireland and SA are ranked 1 and 2 in the world. France and NZ are 3 and 4.

More important than an aircraft's chronological age is the number of flying hours and cycles on the airframe.

As I already posted, the two Air Force one 747's are only two years newer. The Polaris are the same age as our newest CF-18's. One problem is there are few A310's still in airline use so getting a part from a local carrier is not likely. The engines this aircraft uses are still in production and being installed on new B767 freighters and military versions of the 767 like the KC767. Newer versions of this engine power the A330's that will be replacing the Polaris. You can run a brand new aircraft into a building.

Comey basically sealed the election for Trump when he reopened Hillary's emails again days before the election. A probe that came to nothing.

How is Ontario treated differently under the law? Ontario signed the same constitution as the other eight provinces. Quebec gets 7 billion more in federal transfers in spite of having less than 60% of the population. $3149 per capita vs $1575. That goes a long way toward supporting its social programs. Manitoba and the Maritime provinces get more per capita, Ontario, Alberta, BC, Saskatchewan and NFLD all get about the same as each other.

Quebec still gets transfers from the feds, same as all the other provinces. Coverage also varies from province to province. I posted the link. The fact Quebec gets special treatment under the law is a source of friction in this country.

The current director was appointed by Trump.

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/federal-transfers.html

No we don't, health care is provincial. The provincial governments get transfers from the feds but the province decides how they are spent. If we are not discussing health care, why did you name the topic, private healthcare.

Four of the last five and the last two FBI directors were appointed by Republican presidents.

Actually, we have provincial single payers.

Wow, who would have thought so many people would get so bitter and twisted about something so trivial as what someone like Arden thinks.

True. The 2 new AF1's were originally supposed to be just over 3 billion. Trumps personal 757 first went into service in 1993 and had 3 previous owners.

You seem really upset. Why do you care so much what she does?

Like I said, I don't care what airline she uses. Maybe it isn't different. Do you enjoy them? JT didn't have access to government aircraft before he became PM. All MP's fly commercial between Ottawa and their ridings. PP isn't special.

Like I said, what she does is her business and I really don't care. I also don't blame PP for taking advantage of the opportunity. I just don't think airlines should be inflicting political messages on their passengers or giving politicians PA time on their flights.

I don't care what Arden does. If you think PP will be flying commercial if he becomes PM, you are a fool.

Ya, airlines shouldn't be doing this kind of thing. It's not like people can get up and leave if they don't want to listen to the guy. The PA overrides all the entertainment systems so people watching a movie would have to sit there and listen to PP instead. Not cool WJ.

Democracy is such a drag to the MAGA cult.

The cost to replace them was up to 5.2 Billion USD in 2019. The first isn't to be delivered until 2024. God knows what the final cost will be. The two in use now will have been in service 34 years by then.