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Strongly disagree. It s not a side point nor unrelated.

I met Yasser Arafat. (As an ordinary Canadian, he struck me as very tired.) Pierre Trudeau? Short. 5'8 Prince Charles? Long nose. George Bush Snr? I was amazed at his secret service protection.

I remember seeing Lucien Bouchard drinking coffee on the road between Ottawa-Montreal. Heck, I remember sitting watching Ed Broadbent berate an African dictator for an hour - because Mulroney's staff asked me too.

In Canada, the average CPP is about Cdn $800 per month and OAS Cdn $750. In the US, the average Social Security is about US $2,000. Note that Americans over 65 have Medicare.

The Russian response above is boilerplate. I wonder what Putin and Xi think of this.

So far, no response from China.

"In our country, Ayatollah Khamenei will be remembered as an outstanding statesman who made a huge personal contribution to the development of friendly Russian-Iranian relations, bringing them to the level of a comprehensive strategic partnership," the Russian president said. The Kremlin press service published this message on its official Telegram account, addressed to the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian.

https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/xw/fyrbt/fyrbt/202602/t20260228_11866531.html Not Xi.

In Canada, culture is a provincial issue. Each province has its own culture.

1. Why should young people pay for older people? 2. Iceland is sustainable. It has about 300,000 people - for almost a millennia. 2a. The people on the island of Newfoundland have survived also. -about 700,000.

Canada is a federal state with two federal official languages. Canada has no official cultural. Canada is a multicultural state.

1. OAS is based on years of residency. It is taxable. Mulroney made it clawable. Trudeau Jnr increased it for people over 75. My OAS payments come from other people paying federal taxes. It is a transfer from tax-paying people to older people. 2. CPP/RRQ is based on contributions. It is taxable. Payments come from my savings. 3. GAINS? You are very poor and have made bad decisions in life.

This is not about you Americans. Carney? This is about Canada.

After the fact, Carney's PR office sent a message in support of Trump. https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/02/28/statement-prime-minister-carney-and-minister-anand-situation-middle-east

Federal Liberals pride themselves on being "in the know". Well, Carney was in India when Trump attacked Iran. Clearly, Trump did not consult nor even inform our PM of what he planned to do.

Watch what Putin and Xi say. Medvedev answered first.

Strongly disagree.

Disagree. I reckon that the USSR could have existed for many more years - if Andropov had lived.

PEI has a lower GDP per capita than Quebec. IOW, an average person in PEI is less productive than an average person in Quebec.

We Canadians have a civilised society, a federal State.

Truman -even Johnson- but certainly Kennedy, Reagan -understood that the US faced an ideological foe. Nixon (and Kissinger) viewed the world in multipolar terms.

I am not Jewish. But I don't think that modern Jews quite understand the plight of Jews in the past, and refugees (Somalis, Haitians) in the present. Billy Wilder and John von Neumann were Jews born in a multicultural state. In 1914, Austria-Hungary (and Europe) imploded.

He's the weird guy (long blonde hair) at the beginning. The BBC then made a show "Jim'll fix it." (In the 1970s, Labour's James Callaghan tried to run on such a line.)

In the 1930s, the Jews had nowhere to go. In the 2010s, the Somalis can go back home.

Albertans work harder and produce more. Quebecers are older and produce less. Yet, they get along.