August1991

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.

Typical anti-American/leftist/liberal/hate Trump word salad. We Canadians get along.

Herbie, are you one of those Linux guys? IMHO, you are the bane of modern democratic western life. You are a Karen. You are a fanatic. You are the 1 of the 20 who makes every HOA a nightmare.

Abroad, people buy margarine - look at the ingredients of Becel. In Quebec, people eat butter.

How many of the players are born in Canada? Chinese? American? Before the US Congress in 1978, Trudeau Snr famously noted that many Americans side with Canadians while many Americans side with Canadians. ===== I am reminded of Seinfeld's comment about laundry:

En effet les Canadiens en 1763. Seuls. ===== Between 1763 and 1864, no ship arrived from France.

The Seven Years War had two peace treaties. At the time, the most important was the Treaty of Hubertusberg - which decided the critical war between Prussia and Austria-Hungary about Saxony. The later Treaty of Paris (in fact in Fontainebleau) was to sign this paper as we would among the G-7.

I have thought long about the events in the Seven Years War. Stanley Kubrick made a good movie of the time in Europe: Barry Lyndon ====== Modern Quebec? Off island - that's the best I can do.

In 1978, desperate, Trudeau Snr got Jack Horner to cross the floor - to defend federalism. Trudeau Snr famously said at the time: "If I can get along with Horner, you can get along with Quebec." ==== The federal/provincial Liberals (Carney?) are clueless. I wish for a federal political party to make Canada Get Along.

Politics is an ugly game. ====== At present, we have a federal PM who was once a federal Bank of Canada governor. Americans would not tolerate such concentration of power.

Disagree. Toronto is not Canada's engine. ===== Toronto is a city on a lake. Like Chicago/Detroit once were.

You make two points. 1. Higher-ups suspected/knew about this, but they turned an eye. Blue-line. 2. Tow-trucks. Accidents, the drivers and money. Police reports.

Since the 1600s, we Canadians get along.

WorId War I? Disagree. I walk by a memorial to the "Great War". It was not a Canadian war. It was a European civil war. ===== The period between 1914-1945 was another European civil war. Just like 1789-1815. Or 1618-1648. Every generation or so, Europeans fight each other.

In this forum, when people speak of "Canada" in English - they are largely speaking of Toronto. Pierre Trudeau understood this distinction. Canada is a much larger place

In Canada, we get along. In Europe, in the 1800s, they got along - until 1914.

When is the State involved? ====== I oppose victim statements.