August1991

In their own way, both Obama and Trump wanted to make America great.

So is Obama. ==== As I say: America - what a country!

Obama also was a cult leader. 1. Americans are self-centred. 2. Americans have no understanding of irony. 3. America, what a country!

No, I mean write code. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg could all write code. ==== BTW, the person in Belgrad (Serbia, Yugoslavia at the time) had a textbook about linear algebra, the inverse of a matrix.

Agreed, Canada is not a binary confrontation (Our federal state must function in two languages - yet it is multicultural. Canada is a federal state with two official federal languages but Canada has no official central national culture.) Disagree, Leftist Canada is alive and living.

"Totally"? "Sky rocket"? "Out there"? I generally stop reading when anyone who uses such terms. Farmland loss? WTF? About half of milk in Canada is produced in Quebec. Most Canadian grocery stores have two cheese counters: have you ever asked why?

Good point. ===== I have a friend who opposes immigration - yet just sold his father's house for $2.1 million.

Disagree, Prussians, Swedes, Lutherans insist foreigners be like them. Americans? Foreigners can do what they want. Canadians - be like us, but no guns,

Educated people can understand the notation of mathematics. Years ago, I was a poor tourist in Belgrad on a tram, I recall looking down at the book of the person beside me. It was gibberish. But I understood the math. ==== I think all educated people should also "speak" a computer code. Whether Python, Javascript or C# - or even COBOL - learn another language.

I fear that any State scheme to pay for new medical procedures will reduce the incentives to discover new medication. Moreover, it opens the likelihood of conservative abuse. In Canada, we can free ride on the private US system.

I started a different thread about the Spadina expressway.

Why did Davis stop it? But Drapeau build it?

BD, I disagree with your premise. Depends where you live, or the situation. Every left-handed person is born in a minority.

Here, I strongly disagree. The defeat of the Soviet Union was a major victory for the West. When China opened to trade in 1982, also a major victory. ===== Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo? We need a new multi-polar arrangement

Korea, Vietnam were before 1991. AG, have you been to Berlin?

Dougie93, I can understand your idea that Pierre Trudeau was a communist. (He wasn't.) But William Davis?

I strongly disagree. Given a choice of our own tribe: Many Canadian WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) have often voted across tribal lines, for a Catholic. Indeed, many Canadian Catholics have voted outside their tribe, for a WASP.

Davis did this earlier. He appealed to Trudeau Snr. https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/20/world/around-the-world-us-refuses-visa-for-ian-paisley.html

I'm now thinking Trump will pick de Santis.

Unlike the Swedes and Finns, we Canadians are very good at assimilating foreigners. We Canadians have a Prussian/Austrian Hungarian way of doing this. We get along. Americans are different.

I will spare you the trouble. Here are the 10 reasons we are supposed to oppose mass immigration: 1) Housing Crisis 2) Strained Healthcare 3) Farmland Loss 4) Crowding of Schools 5) Foreign Interference 6) Declining Living Standards 7) Urban Sprawl and Densification 8) Declining Social Cohesion 9) Incompatible Cultural Practices 10) Erosion of National Identity ===== 1) Housing crisis? Immigrants make current home-owners richer. 2) Strained Healthcare? Immigrants largely make our health care system work. 3) Farmland Loss? WTF? I stopped there. Canada is a large country.

Poilievre's wife was born abroad. Heck, Donald Trump's current wife was born abroad. ==== This old-school Leftist idea that people on the Right are nationalist - it no longer works, makes no sense.

WTF? I was always curious about the face. No doubt, we will soon have another face on our money. Why not Leonard Cohen on our 10? Years ago, in Soviet times, I asked a German why they don't have famous German names on their money. She answered: "It's complicated. It depends where they're born." ===== In Europe, when designing the paper euros, they chose bridges. But the bridges are fictional. The coins have a connection to reality - look on the back of any European coin.

Ian Paisley. What a guy. I remember when William Davis refused to let him speak in Ontario. And I remember a BBC interview when the interviewer was confused about his, uh, orientation. ===== Chinese are obsessed with face. We Canadians get along.

From 1945 to the present, we have had world peace. AG, look on YouTube, ask anyone born before 1940 what is war. ===== Since 1945 or so, we faced a Soviet/Communist threat. Leaders like Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon faced it. In 1989, we defeated this nonsense.