August1991

Good point. In Canada, we don't. This primary residence capital gain exemption has always bothered me. I worked and made money. You bought a house and made money. What's the difference? ==== Of course, as my English brother-in-law once said, in America - they live in trailers.

When Kennedy said that we could put a man on the moon (and return him safely), he knew that it was difficult but possible. Elon Musk believes humans will live on Mars. ==== Let me be plain: No human will ever live on Mars.

Absolutely not. Clark in 1979 started that idea. Trump correctly fixed SALT. ==== In Canada, unlike the US, mortgage interest is NOT deductible. And in Canada, unlike the US, provincial/municipal taxes are NOT deductible. (Until Trump changed this and made US federal tax law like Canada... )

Older established Canadians are rich. It is immigrants and younger Canadians who are poor. ===== I have no problem with that. We should reward people who create a civilised society. Land values in Toronto and Vancouver are high because of the efforts of past Canadians.

Prayer? I have always thought that prayer is talking to yourself. God? You, yourself. You are talking to yourself. ====== We all have an internal voice. Someone we talk with. I'm no psychologist (Kant/Freud invented this idea... ). Last point: Some people have an internal voice that makes them feel good.

True. How many hits?

Agreed. Many people have, uh, a chip on their shoulder. ===== Progressives used to believe in the future: the world can be a better place.

The federal government should give this $13 billion to each provincial government, and let them decide how to spend the money - how to organise health care, dentistry. I'm sure PEI will organise things differently than Manitoba. $13 billion. A billion here and a billion there, soon you are talking of real money.

You should have taken care of your teeth. You've had lots of time. ==== I understand (sort of) the logic of paying for the teeth of poor kids. Paying for old people's dental care? I disagree.

So, you want a world-wide State-portable dental agreement? European Bureaucrats/American Lawyers would love to have that. As well as dentists, and poor people

As it happens, I have never voted in a federal riding for a candidate of the Liberals. But I remember well the period from December 1979 to February 1980.

I think that each government in each province should organise education and health affairs as the people in the province wish. ==== We live in a federal state.

I disagree with this entire concept: Health care in PEI and Alberta are not the same. Each province should be free to organise its own affairs. So the idea of minimum federal standards for teeth care? Insane. ===== But I like the idea of transborting: if you work in Denmark/Alberta for five years and pay into the pension scheme, you should be able to transfer these years over to the Quebec system.

Bump.

What's the difference? Progressives want to change the world - no problem. Some now use the word "transition". I reckon that Reagan and Thatcher won. We transition.

My problem with it is that it is federal. === Health care? People in Alberta/PEI know far what to do in their local situation. Foreign affairs, army? I agree that we should all pay. ============ We Canadians have a wonderful federal society.

Legault was born in mai 1957. Putin in okt 1952. After the war, both want to protect their country.

Disagree. Let's agree. Pay it. Give them $26 billion. The future can be a far richer place if we don't argue about the past. ===== IMHO, conservatives want to fix/preserve the past Progressives want to look future.

True, it looks very bad for the federal Liberals. But we Canadians get along.

My father was a Newfoundlander. English, protestant. Born before Confederation - a Pearson Liberal. Years ago, I remember visiting the federal Parliament with him - this was after Trudeau Snr got elected. I recall that he said to me: "None of these people could speak French before."

And what about OAP - Old Age Pension. Or GAINS - what's that? What to do! What are the rules? ==== Should Alberta have its own pension scheme - Quebec does ===== I reckon that in a peaceful world, autistic people become bureaucrats.

In Quebec, like Norway, we have this bizarre paper claim on future real wealth. In Norway, it is called the https://www.nbim.no/ In Quebec, it is the Caisse - bas de laine. ==== You Americans correctly have a different idea of a sustainable society.

Woodrow Wilson? ===== It was Margaret Thatcher that made plain to me British history. And I suspect that Pierre Trudeau explained it to her. Britain has always opposed the European majority Britain sided with the minority Prussians - in the Seven Years War. Alone, Britain - Churchill - opposed the majority in the 1930s.

Trust me - Canada is not in trouble. We Canadians get along. I remember - Trudeau Snr with his beard at Mirabel. I remember Dec 1979 - Clark, Rae. And then Feb 1980. The referendum in May 1980.

1) Few people died because of bad teeth. 2) Agreed. 2a) Canada is a remarkable country. Bureaucrats in PEI know far more about this than bureaucrats in Ontario.