August1991

PEI does not want more people. BC agrees to more people - if they're off the island Quebec wants more people of a certain language. Ontario wants people in a different place - NIMBY. ===== Canada is a large country. We have space - lots. Should an investor avoid Canadian real estate?

Compare Zola with Hemingway. Huh? Compare Netflix with NBC. In 2125 - three generations from now, what will kids read? I suspect they'll still read Maugham.

I strongly agree with your two first points. Your third point raises a complicated question. ======= We Canadians have benefited from free trade with America - and the rest of the world.

Mussolini was a Fascist. Donald Trump is no fascist. Robert Reich is an ideologue - he cannot change opinion.

This is my point. ==== "Just Watch Me".

He was Union nationale. That is the modern CAQ. ==== Trudeau Snr (and Seinfeld) had a good point about sports: we support the team wherever they were born.

And largely created a century of peace for ordinary people. Stone, After 1815, for a century, Europeans created so much - they had such cities. And then, they wrecked it all in the summer of 1914. Why?

No. Somerset Maugham wrote Three Fat Women. Google it.

Joyce Carol Oates. Like Balzac, Sidney Sheldon, Dickens, she supposedly described an era. Unlike Balzac and Dickens, I managed to read only one Sheldon or Oates novel.

Many English-Canadians view Trump as a typical American. Many French-Canadians view Trump as a typical anglo. ===== To win votes, Poilievre should have played on these perceptions. The federal Liberals do.

No, he didn't. Poilievre should have played the Canadian nationalist card, very hard. ===== If PSPP is smart, he will play this card very hard - and then win a referendum.

Advice to PR people: In the future, Poilievre must always appear in front of a large Canadian flag. But with blue somewhere.

Make no mistake. People in the future will remember the period 1914-1945 as a series of wars/troubles -Three Decades. What do you know about the Thirty Years War?

Agreed.

Poilievre lost the last federal election because he didn't stand up for Canada. The federal Liberals (Carney) are playing this card but screwing this up. The PQ will win on this. ===== Faced with Trump, we Canadians want someone who stands up.

I never met Gilles Duceppe in person. Modern life: posts about how we met famous people.

Trudeau Snr invoked the War Measures Act and probably caused more problems.

Disagree. Trump wants to make America great again.

Crosbie. Charest. We are talking about Quebec/Nfld relations.

Trudeau Snr understood this. Mark Carney does not.

Within Canada, Quebecers, people in Ontario expect special treatment. In the world, we Canadians expect special treatment. Why? ===== We Canadians have always had the benefit of being American without any of the cost.

Canada is protected with cold weather.

All things considered, some two centuries later, you Americans sorta understand a federal state. We Canadians sorta understand a bilingual federal state.

Robertson Davies is a sorta-good writer. I recommend his "Fifth Business". Maupassant, Hemingway were good writers. Balzac, Dickens wrote well for money. Pushkin was a good poet. Tolstoi used this medium. ===== In the year 2200 or so, no one will read a book/story by Atwood. I suspect that they will still read Somerset Maugham.

I am clueless about guns in Canada. ==== Army Guy, I trust you.