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And if you hold US cash, dollars: American financial paper denominated in US dollars (like many Chinese people, including the People's Bank of China), you are about to see a large drop in its value. The Russian Central Bank holds less - if at all. It is hard for individual Russians to hold US dollars.

Like the Russia/Ukraine civil war, all of this could have been avoided. ===== I reckon that since 1991, the world powers need a new sit-down. For the good of us all.

More broadly, to win, Poilievre should have defended Canada. Trump sent him a soft ball.

WTF is an "easement"?

In the arena, as Roosevelt said. I'll leave aside the good/bad for other posts - Churchill/Hitler etc. ===== Remarkable failures? Dukakis and Ignatieff. Hillary in 2016. Everyone thought they would win. Amazing successes? Nixon in 1968. Trump in 2024. Everyone thought they would lose.

Crown? ==== People talk of the "rule of law". To me, this is what you own "property law" and and how you trade "contract law". CdnFox, ask a notary.

Alberta has huge oil-sands, Saskatchewan has potash and uranium. At present, our federal Liberal government in Ottawa makes getting these resources to foreign buyers difficult. Northern BC offers a way to transport them abroad. Alaska has a remarkable coastline.

I agree. I own my physical computer. My car. But do I own all the code in my computer? I own my home. Do I own the airspace above my home? If Air Canada flies above my home, can I sue them? ==== Balsillie is a once rich guy that lost. It happens.

In April 2024, the federal Liberals will win and Carney will be our PM. The Liberals may need support. All of the Liberal seats and support will not come from the parts of Alberta/Saskatchewan and northern BC that Trump would like to annex.

Faced with Carney, Poilievre had the potential win of Diefenbaker in 1958, Mulroney in 1984. Carney was a WEF bureaucrat. An easy target. All Poilievre had to do is wave the flag. Stop talking about taxes. Unbelievable own goal.

Carney played the nationalist card. Poilievre surprisingly didn't. ===== No one in English Canada cares about taxes when there's a threat from the US. Heck, in French Canada, no one cares about taxes.

It is too late for the Conservatives. Unbelievable. No one knows who this Carney guy is. No one knows his wife. And yet he is about to become our next federal PM, with a majority in parliament. ===== At least in 1968, with Trudeau Snr, he had been Justice minister. Defended in parliament a major reform of our federal law. ====== Ignatieff is a similar federal Liberal amazed with this Carney guy. How did he do it? Trump. Trump sadly explains much of English-Canada. They hate America.

On international markets, the Bank of Canada will let our Canadian dollar fall like the American dollar. (What choice does it have... ) If you already have a condo in Florida or Arizona, the US fees will be slightly lower. If you were planning a trip to France or Japan this summer, it will be more expensive. ===== I reckon that America is about to become a place to buy, uh, stuff to take home. America is about to become a difficult place to own stuff.

I want to explain my point more clearly. Blockchainers/bitcoiners believe that, in the future, ordinary people will be able to transact/trade/buy using a USB stick. phone, touch screen. In the future, ordinary people will simply trade using an instantaneous "bitcoin" -without any cost, transferred to the buyer or seller. In such a world, that may possibly exist in the future, why would I hold a current "bitcoin" for even a nanosecond? So, why do people buy hold bitcoin? Why is it worth Cdn 130,000?

If the US dollar is worth less on world markets, this solves so many problems: 1. Ordinary Americans don't care about exchange rates. 2. Coastal Americans will freak out about the US dollar value on international markets 3. For Rich Americans, it will be expensive to travel abroad. 4. For ordinary Americans, there will be a minor change in imported Dollarama stuff. 5. This solves the US government debt problem. 6. With a lower US dollar, foreigners will want to buy made-in-America stuff.

To encourage understanding of homeless people, it is an image used in Montreal.

Many more years ago, I did the same in Greece. At night, I thought I chose an empty space. In the morning, I woke up beside some grazing goats. And then in the distance, I saw a woman step down from a truck, urinate, get back in.

Disagree. I now understand that their Ken Burn's PBS is like our Pierre Berton's National Dream. Until PBS, I did not know of James Hill.

I haven't done the numbers/seats. But I reckon the NDP will keep enough seats to keep status. And the federal Liberals will not win a majority.

In America, they have only had two Catholic presidents: JFK and Biden. In this federal Canadian election, as many others, both Carney and Poilievre are Catholic -raised, baptised. An issue in the past - not now. ===== I was surprised with the French language of Carney, Poilievre and Singh. (It is hard to speak any language in public - ask Kamala Harris.) These Anglo guys can speak French like Turner - but not like Mulroney.

Singh will no longer be NDP leader. But I fear that this model in Canada of "religious/cult people" choosing a leader will not end. Fortunately, we ordinary Canadians have a long history of voting across religious lines.

A federal Liberal minority is a win. With the NDP, the Liberals have a majority - under control. ==== I have not done the seat count yet - Canada is regional, Ontario is hard - but I reckon that it will be a federal Liberal minority.

Betsy, I admire your JW, Filipina passion. I'm not American. I'm a Canadian - I speak French.

Homeless? These people (men, mostly) often force dogs to live in similar circumstances. -I have never seen a cat beside a begging men at the SAQ.

Elsewhere in Canada, do you see this? In Montreal, near where I live, there are people who have tents.