August1991

Make no mistake, we in Canada manage our affairs. There is a reason we have our own Canadian dollar. ===== The monetary history of America and Canada is striking.

I disagree. Nowadays, we Canadians largely agree. We get along.

At issue is when the next dictator/psychopath will use a nuclear bomb? Would Napoleon use an H-bomb? Hitler?

Disagree.

The federal PM certainly does not have this power. How about a Lieutenant-Governor?

Trudeau was elected in June 1968. Nixon in November1968. They both understood Communism - the power of the State. Did they meet after 1974?

This is my thinking too. Mearsheimer (and Nixon, Trudeau Snr) think this way also.

Our first Catholic federal PM was not Laurier, it was an Anglophone: John Thompson

John S. Macdonald, Catholic, was the first premier of Ontario. We Canadians cross lines. get along.

1. Canada is Catholic. US is Protestant. 2. Canada manages money. US does not. 3. Canada never fights one another. US has a bloody Civil War.

Canada is a large and complicated place on this planet. Many people live here; we get along.

Resigning. She was born in 1974 in northern Quebec, not Montreal. https://www.ledevoir.com/politique/montreal/822216/valerie-plante-ne-representera-pas-mairie-montrea

Too many people in Newfoundland and Quebec misunderstand wealth, value. In their mind, they are rich because they have lots of gold - but it is faraway, on the Moon. The value is bringing the gold to market.

After July 1974, Trudeau Snr - desperate - delayed a general election to May 1979. Nowadays, the federal PM has less power.

1. He got rid of the penny. 2. He changed the seating in the House. 3. He forced Trudeau Jnr to have an election before Oct 2025. ===== Tom Mulcair is talking about Trudeau Jnr proguing Parliament to delay.

Income tax? Americans must pay a federal sales tax, a consumption tax.

What is a bitcoin worth? According to the blockchain people, in a future world, we will transact without money or banks. We will exchange immediately. In such a world. why would I hold a bitcoin?

Bump.

Key point: We need a new way to get along.

Truman dropped not one, two. Apparently Truman wanted to shorten the war, avoid an invasion of Japan. Beforehand, Truman told Stalin about all this in their meeting near Berlin. ==== Truman? What if Stalin or Hitler had had the power of Truman?

Context?

At $62 billion, we're borrowing peanuts compared to GDP. Our situation is doable. At $2 trillion borrowing, the US federal government is not sustainable. ==== Both governments are selling bonds (borrowing) faster than GDP can generate tax revenues: a Ponzi scheme ==== Thank God we have a Canadian dollar.

CdnFox, My point is that it takes three generations of European males (a century more or less) to forget a war. Then, they fight again. ===== We Canadians get along. Since 1865, the Americans seem to get along.

Whatever. ====== After 1985, Gorbachev, there was a period of world optimism - world peace is possible. After 1992, Yeltsin tried a partnership for peace. After 2001, Putin learned and agreed. He was curious about the West ===== The 2008 meeting in Bucharest? No, I disagree.

https://www.cbc.ca/archives/no-place-for-the-state-in-the-bedrooms-of-the-nation-1.4681298 This link needs subtitles.