August1991

For the past 60 years or so, missionaries and do-gooders (ACDI/CIDA), various charities have tried to help Haiti. All for nought. Haiti is now utterly dysfunctional. I fear that do-gooders (Trudeau Jnr) will do the same for Indigenous people. ===== Individual Haitians? Different story.

No. Did I meet Scott Fraser or Josie Osbourne? No, I did not. ==== John Crosbie. We all knew him in public. I met him several times in private. His public persona was more accurate - more true to his self.

Scott Fraser? Josie Osbourne? No idea what you're point is. Salmon Wars? This i sorta remember. ===== Does any poster remember meeting Diefenbaker in person? Where, when? From all accounts, he was a populist, crowd-pleaser - like Trump.

User, In the future, be more concise. ===== Can any knowledgeable American explain this to me? In particular, Trump's threat?

Haiti is a disaster. Today, it is a dysfunctional society Many foreigners, good, well-intentioned people (Missionaries, ACDI, CIDA), have gone to Haiti and tried to help Haitians. . ==== I fear that we are doing the same with Canada's natives

The way we humans understand life is so often wrong: We imagine life as ourselves. We humans have evolved for this planet. I have an orange male cat. He is deaf; no incisors. Affectionate. It is a cat.

In Canada, we have minority governments and MPs crossing floors. Parliamentary votes that defeat a government. In the US, you have filibusters. WTF? If I understand correctly, the federal House of Representatives has passed an act. This act must also pass the federal Senate.

Robosmith: I understand that you hate Trump. Please explain how a Senate filibuster works.

Disagree. If you want to know about American politics, O'Reilly is largely accurate. World politics? He is too often wrong. ===== As a Catholic, O'Reilly has a wonderful minority view of America.

Transfer payments? They have destroyed Indigenous people. ==== Iceland is a thriving island. As Newfoundland could have been....

Individual Canadian taxpayers outside Quebec give the Quebec government about Cdn $ 1.3 billion each year.

Years ago, flying between the two, I wondered whether Riyadh was another different from Teheran. At least, nowadays, Saudi is changing peacefully.

Disagree. Strongly. Bill O'Reilly is an older Irish Catholic: Once Democrat, now sorta Republican. He's a Nixon/Reagan Republican. More important: O'Reilly understands America. ===== OTOH, I agree. O'Reilly is clueless about the rest of the world.

Robosmith, How can Trump/Republicans avoid the filibuster rule -60 seats in the Senate?

In this video/quote, Trudeau Snr made plain the difference between Civil Code thinking vs common law thinking.

Jacques Hébert - I met him once in person at the Ritz in Montreal. In person, truly creepy guy. Public persona totally different from writings.

Jacques Parizeau - I met him once in person, rotund. Late 1980s? He gave an amazing speech (in English) explaining Canada's tax system. His media persona was no different from how I saw him in "public".

I have never met Pierre Poilevre nor Mark Carney in person. A good friend met Mark Carney in person - when Carney was governor of the Bank of Canada. I met Pierre Trudeau several times in person. He was short and had striking blue eyes. I met Jean Chretien in Canada and abroad. He was amazing in a crowd. -Heck, I remember first seeing Chretien in the late 1970s crossing Wellington, in front of the Parliament, hands away. Jean Marchand -I met him in a parking of Ste-Foy shopping mall. I met Mulroney several times in person. The two together: I have a memory of Chretien in opposition meeting Mulroney as PM - in person. I met/saw Harper in person on two occasions: leadership debate in Montreal, off island event. -Tall, not a crowd pleaser. Marc Lalonde? I met him once in the Montreal airport. Tall, dressed gay.

My favourite: "God is not binary".

Strongly disagree, robosmith. ===== But it could pass the Senate filibuster rule. How? Why does PA senator Fetterman matter? Can an American explain this to me?

Strongly disagree. Mark Carney is arrogant. As they say, he believes that he is the smartest guy in the room - when he is not.

As a westerner, I have no dog in this fight.

Disagree. ==== Socialist systems last for about 70 years. Our Quebec health system was created in 1965.

PEI has about 90,000 people. Newfoundland, the island (not Labrador) has about 600,000. Iceland has about 300,000 people. Define sustainable.

Entirely agree. Official picture. ===== But if I were Pierre Trudeau in 1963, and I wanted to change Canada, I am not sure that I would choose the federal Liberal Party of 2026 to do it.