August1991

To me, the US federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 is antithetical to my Canada. I understand the American issues.

The US fought a Civil War on the right of separate jurisdictions to decide slavery. Should provinces decide the language of education?

Trump must put all his cards on the table. Scott would have done that. Trump needs to win massively in 2024. LBJ 1964, Nixon 1972.

In Canada, we leave education entirely to the provincial level. Language? We are officially bilingual at the federal level. Our federal government must communicate in both languages - that's all. Civil rights? Huh? How private people deal with one another? Each province decides this in its own way. A mess. Abortion? In Canada, we have a federal court decision that means abortion is legal up to birth date. (Note: Some provinces do not have abortion clinics. Women must travel.) ===== I favour State-rignts in a federal regime. I reckon the US Supreme Court was correct to overthrow Roe-Wade.

I think Trump should have chosen Tim Scott. At present, American politics are like Canadian federal politics in the 1890s.

Black skin? Man? You seem self-centered. American. ====== Have you considered what it's like to be an older Asian woman? And, what is the context? Where are you? A black man in Lagos is not like a black man in, uh, Philadelphia.

Rent seeking. Carpet baggers.

Let me add this point. I am tired of this Ukraine/Israel "We are the world" flag nonsense. Since 1991, we do not live in a white hat/black hat world.

True? Huh? Eyeball & Blackbird, I enjoy reading your posts but I see a contradiction.

Look at the arm movements. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.3593423 To me, these are both men who understand that they are the State. Kill me? Our country will exist - but you kill our State. Churchill said such. ===== In 2001, Bush Jnr flew away.

Herbie, I'll put you down as an American voter who hates Trump. As Carville says, you vote Democrat. === It is hard to be a politician. It requires ambition, talent, energy. I reckon that Kim Campbell had the ambition - even the talent but she was lazy. Harris? She has the ambition. That's all. ==== I suspect that Biden is looking at the situation as Nixon once did.

Tribe? Neck of the woods? These are island people, like Newfoundlanders. Fishermen. ===== Wonderful post.

It is easy to eat rice with fingers or sticks. Even the French eat bread with their fingers.

To succeed with their experiment now over two centuries old, the Americans could not hope for better neighbours to the north.

Whale oil beef hooked.

Coyne is correct about free trade. He is wrong about federal Canada. He is wrong about politics/society because he has a PBS view of the world. IMHO.

To me, this is the key comment. Around the world, ordinary people understand that free trade is good. With Covid, many ordinary people have lost trust in authority figures.

Giggle.

Kissinger & Trudeau Snr understood this far better. ====== This is not the 1930s. We are not facing Hitler/Mussolini. This is the 1910s.

At first, good. Then, not I reckon that both women are ambitious but lazy. Read Crosbie's book

Agreed. ==== But why don't they use knives - only spoons and forks?

Agreed. IMHO, there are three broad types: Chinese eat with sticks. Europeans eat with utensils. Indians with their fingers. ===== But Filipinos eat with spoon and fork.

Huh? Filipinos eat with spoons and forks. They don't use knives. Unless they use their hand in a plastic bag.

Trump changed your SALT to make it like Canada - we cannot claim local taxes on our federal form. I think Trump has the political courage to impose a federal consumption tax. Note: Mulroney ensured the federal GST is collected by Revenu-Quebec.

Created in the 1920s,we had a weird federal Manufacturer's Sales Tax. Mulroney had the political courage to impose a modern federal VAT - our GST. ===== Without a federal consumption tax, the US is not sustainable. Your social security and medicare are too generous, promise too much. Your constitution has survived for 250 years. You need a federal consumption tax..