August1991

Taxage. === Extortion. When people want something from you.

Iran uses the term "Supreme" Leader - as translated to English. Imagine some smart guys in the 18th century looking for a term for "above all": "Higher, President, Sovereign, Ultimate, Senior, Supreme, Superior... "

Survival? Get along? What's the difference? To be honest, I'm still struggling with the difference between competition and ambition. ===== Some people are ambitious, others competitive. Some people simply want to get along.

Disagree? True. But we did not kill each other in a Civil War. For several centuries, unlike Europeans and our southern neighbours, we get along.

Disagree. Bitcoin is a typical Ponzi scheme. It's not like the real estate bubble of 2008.

And endless wars for the rest of us.

Finland? I suspect that you follow civil code. UK? I suspect it's the common law. In such matters, Canada has both common law and civil code - depending on province.

This bill C-5 is typical Argentine 1920s thinking. -a Strong Man will fix the problem.

Institutions, traditions, written rules matter. -The Chinese have Confucius. -Americans have a clearly written Constitution. ===== We Canadians have people who get along.

Hey, kids. That's irony.

Conservatives? Freedom of choice? That's Milton Friedman and libertarian - classical liberal.

Disagree. If a person chooses to have a nose ring, tattoo, earrings: the State should have the right to arrest you. But if you are left-handed: the State should be indifferent.

You mean, if Russell Peters had been on the plane, we would talk about this more?

Norwegians have cabins/cottages like rich people in Quebec/Ontario/America - but Norwegians don't drive the way we do.

What's your point.

Of course. I drove Toronto to Edmonton. (Stopped in Saskatchewan by the RCMP, we had Quebec plates. Long story.) I often drive to my sister's cabin/cottage (600 km) for a weekend. Canadians, Australians and Americans drive like that. I was astonished to learn that Russians also drive like that.

Single day? Search: Beaumont-Hamel. Of the some 800 Newfoundlanders who went into battle that morning, only 68 were able to answer the roll call the next day, with more than 700 killed, wounded or missing. 287 were killed.

I recently received a reported credit change. Huh? I went online to verify. I discovered that TransUnion has a personal, walk-in office in Hamilton, Ontario - but nowhere else in Canada. In Montreal, I pay my property tax in person. (The city sends me a paper bill/invoice to my address and I go to a municipal office where I pay.) For banking? My caisse has branches - I can talk to a real person. ===== Send me a bill/invoice. I reckon that we should pay all taxes the same way.

Strongly disagree. For centuries, we Canadians get along. And Europeans got along between 1815 - 1914.

At present, Canada is not in debt. We have potential. But we are like Argentina in the 1920s. -We favour local production -We vote for nationalists to protect ourselves against foreigners -We choose a leader who opposes America -We restrict trade on milk, eggs to protect our local production -We restrict foreign banks -We restrict foreign airlines -We allow our government bureaucrats to choose "winners" ===== Many older Canadians think that the State pensions and State health care system will protect them and their children.

A tattoo is a personal choice. Skin colour is not. In a civilised state, I see a difference. If McDonalds refuses to serve someone with tattoos or I choose to marry a dwarf, it is a private choice. In Canada, we have a bilingual federal State.

Agreed. A single visit to an urban vet is 500$. He's deaf - makes alot of noise. He can smell and he can see things far away. But he can't see things close.

Strongly disagree, for many reasons. In a single day, on a beach in Dieppe in Aug 1942, some 900 Canadians were killed.

Trump/Americans have no desire to take over, uh, Canada. But I can understand Trump's desire to take over Greenland. This is a dispute with Denmark. WTF? Faced with China and Russia and whoever, this is a no-brainer: You bought Alaska. Buy Greenland.

Run again? I think Mackenzie-King lost and then was elected in a Saskatchewan riding. Mulroney famously sat in the House because of a Nova Scotia seat.