August1991

As a Canadian, I'm inclined to prefer the Nixon approach. But Reagan (and Trudeau Snr) sometime have the better approach.

Make no mistake. Ordinary Americans fought in Korea, Vietnam. JFK stood up to these guys, Nixon tried to negotiate, Reagan said enough. Eventually, you Americans won the Cold War.

Precisely. This is how the Canadian health system will survive. Like Europe, a two tier system. ==== It exists in Quebec now.

You guys won/lost the various battles in Vietnam and Korea. Wherever. Make no mistake. You won the the larger war. You defeated Soviet Communism.

IMHO, we are living in a multi-polar moment, a black hole. In this void, Trump is correctly say, America is King.

The Chinese would disagree. Some English Canadians argue that we have lived through all sequences -and we still survive, like the tail of a British squirrel. I disagree. We Canadians, like the Chinese, we get along.

Eyeball, you miss the point - like Carney has. And trust me Trudeau Snr and Mulroney never missed this point: Canada is provincial.

Macron in English:

The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

Wonderful book. Why? Time.

Soliliquoy? Of course, it's me speaking to myself. Irony? Everyone in the audience gets the point -except you on the stage.

I am not Chinese. But I strongly agree with the Xi view of the potential future world.

Thucydides Trap? 1. Trump is American? No problem. 2. Crimea is Russian, Taiwan is Chinese. 3. Let's avoid war - get along in a new Kissinger arrangement.

i suspect that many urban voters don't care. 1. They are are poor and don't own a car. 2. They are rich and have a Tesla.

Cats have kittens, dogs have pups. They produce. Dogs and cats? We Canadians get along.

Is Carney any different?

Disagree, Americans generally get along - except when they fought a civil war about a person skin's colour. We Canadians get along - different religions, different languages. No civil war. And trust me, we Canadians can eat grass. Les filles du roy.

Eyeball, Increasingly, across Canada in various provinces, boomers with money will pay for "private medical tests".

Red River Rebellion to Bill 101? How many people in Canada died? The Americans had a horrific Civil War in the 1860s. We Canadians have two federal official languages, and we get along.

Disagree. Strongly. 1. Your government debt is well above 100% of your GDP. 1a. You borrow faster than you earn. 2. Canada has a debt to GDP ratio well below 100. ==== I want a pre-nup.

We have homeless people in Montreal on streets, in tents in July. Tents, very few in January. None on streets.

Disagree strongly. Trump is a typical nationalist. Like Quebec Solidaire, the PQ, NDP: Trump wants to make his society best by only buying at home.

Lobby? No. I want to know what is going on. ==== Embassies? Journalists love to know gossip.