August1991

Disagree. You can ignore me but other people are arguing the same. --- I am pro-American Constitution. I do not want to live in a world where US federal bureaucrats have control without opposition. Such a world would not be stable, peaceful We must learn to live in a multi-polar world. From 1815 to 1914, Europe largely had peace. Alberta? Catholics? French? We people have lived together for centuries in a civilised society - we have avoided wars.

Let me post a clear point: Reagan, Thatcher (and Johnson, Nixon, Kennedy and the people who fought in Vietnam) defeated Soviet Communism None of them wanted to install a new regime in Russia. They wanted to make the world better. I recently took the train from Saigon to Hanoi. We now live in a world where people like me can trade and travel more freely.

Sorry, to me, the current situation in the world is not 1939. It is 1913. ==== To me, Putin is like Catherine or Tsar Alexander. We in the West have the chance to negotiate a century of peace - like in 1815 at Vienna, or decades in 1945 at Potsdam. Or we could fall into several decades of death and destruction because of a foolish nationalist dispute in the Balkans - that everyone said would be short.

Regime change in Russia? Napoleon tried this. Hitler tried this. Biden? Is the US administration trying to change the regime in Russia? The Mongols sort of succeeded but only for two centuries. ==== We must all learn how to live in a peaceful multi-polar world.

I have wondered why this disaster of August 1914 started. Think. At the time, everyone alive thought that it would be a "short war". Read accounts of 1914. They are like now. ===. In 1962, Kennedy and Khrushchev knew about war. He lost his older brother. Khrushchev sent men across the river.

Hey!

Sweden - like Norway - has a few million people.. California has more people than Canada. Russia has far more people. ===== You Americans don't understand why you are successful

At the federal level, Canada is regional politics.

Many urban women who voted for Justin Trudeau - will not vote NDP.

Individuals have this idea of a "bas de laine" - money put aside. Norwegians collectively think like this. They too have a Caisse.

Let me take a different view of this question: Is the US - as a society- sustainable? ==== Americans have a lower birth rate - but many foreigners want to live in America.

A Ponzi scheme can survive as long as new people invest/contribute faster than other people remove their money. At a macro level, the US federal government can spend as long as people (anywhere in the world) are willing to buy US government bonds - or the US government can tax Americans. So, is the US federal government a Ponzi scheme? IMHO, no. The US federal government has the power to tax (force contributions) many people including, for example, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and so on.

Galbraith wrote a book about the Liberal Hour. But then there were Progressives. Nowadays, they speak of "transition".

True, I would prefer a different arrangement. "Utterly hates"? I disagree. You Albertans are not bombing we people in Quebec. ==== I prefer a Federal Republic of Canada

I'm a foreigner. What the US Government (eg. Biden) is doing against Trump? This is Third World style politics.

BTW, Justin Trudeau? To me, he has his mother's brains and his father's looks. Justin Trudeau is to single women what Donald Trump is to single guys. All are clueless.

On the contrary, I am making the opposite view.

Disagree. ===== Army Guy, Would you "negotiate" in such a firefight?

Some of us are born French-speaking and others are English-speaking. Native born? We are also mostly Catholics, and others Protestants. In Canada, we have managed these differences through a federal State. We get along. ===== Sikhs and Ukrainians? I'm with Pierre Trudeau. I do not want to make Montreal the Danzig of the New World.

Confederation? Federal country? CdnFox, as you wish. ==== Ontario is a place to live. Canada is different.

This has nothing to do with pipelines or CO2 emissions. ==== Kids? Different people in different places raise their kids differently. In Canada, we have a federal constitution. And in Canada, we have no federal education bureaucracy. Education is a provincial issue - for good reason. BTW, our health care is also provincial - note to Obama/Romney.

Not the issue. ==== The death penalty puts a card on the table for the Crown Prosecutor.

Herbie, I first thought to ignore your post. But then I thought further. Remembered. Life. Some individuals want to manipulate. Other individuals want to make us feel bad. ===== What kind of internal conversation do you have?

I oppose the 1913 world of a "short war".

Huh? "In my opinion, it's a very good decision... " because this is NOT something for the federal government to decide. We live in a federal state. Education is a provincial jurisdiction. === We once had a politician who, like Poilievre, understood this.