August1991

In 1979, it happened. In Iraq and Libya, it also happened. It recently happened in Syria. ==== I am a Canadian. If you Americans tried to change my complicated Protestant/Catholic/French/English/Alberta/Quebec Canadian regime, you would make a mess of it. Please don't.

Robosmith, You are an AI robot. And you hate Trump. ====== Tell me something new.

Pablo Rodriguez is a good guy, smart. But he will never be PM of Quebec. The PLQ is clueless.

Strongly disagree. We Canadians are not in debt. At the federal government level - in money terms, Chretien/Martin/Harper put our federal finances in good shape. (True, Trudeau Jnr spent like a trust kid.) At the provincial government level, even the Quebec govt has a Caisse - like Norway. ===== Borrow? We Canadians add to the wealth of the world.

Strongly disagree. The United States is not a fascist state

Strongly, very strongly, disagree. === CdnFox, Are you speaking about Americans - or Canadians? 1. We Canadians manage our money/banks far better than Americans. 2. We Canadians are a mix of Scots and Normans. 3. We Canadians get along.

I tend to agree. Of course, how to make this possible in the 2020s is not so easy.

Disagree. My father was a Newfoundlander, a family of fishermen.

I suspect that the BQ (and the PQ) want to expose the corrupt federal system.

All federal parties (without exception) voted for this. To my knowledge, no single sitting federal house member, no single federal senator voted against. ====== This is your tell that an institution is corrupt.

Clown? I claimed that northern BC is like rural Alberta. Alaska? Canada (BC) has lotsa places to access the Pacific. ==== As one famously said: if Canada can be divided - then Quebec can be too. If Alberta can separate, then BC can divide.

Weird? Taft was a US president - then sat on the federal US Supreme Court. Imagine Macdonald, Trudeau (either) or Charles III on our federal Supreme Court. Even the term itself: "Supreme Court". This is not British. We copied it from the American constitution. ===== Let me return to my OP: -the fundamental difference between Canada and the US is money, our monetary history is amazingly different

Herbie, This issue may break federal Canada as we know it: https://nationalpost.com/news/senate-passes-bill-to-protect-supply-management-from-any-future-trade-deals International Trade? Let's see. IMHO, federal institutions are unanimously passing a law to favour one region (while the law hurts all other regions). When Pierre Trudeau managed to pass his 1968 Bilingual Act, it was not unanimous.

Pause? Canada (like Australia) is a country of large spaces - with few people. Compare a new born child in Canada vs an immigrant. -With the newborn, we are facing costs for the next 15 years (at least) before the kid produces anything useful (in a minimum wage job). Heck, we have to teach kids how to tie their shoelaces. -With an immigrant, we receive a ready-formed person - who at least knows how to tie their shoelaces.

Tesla and Waymo have self-driving cars on the road. These cars rely on AI to decide what to do. If I understand properly, here's the difference: -Tesla has zillions of vehicles on the road (self-driving or otherwise) and collects a huge amount of data from all vehicles to try to train/predict what is best to do. -Waymo has far fewer vehicles on the road but its software engineers/AI focus on what works. if you're curious, here's the link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08228 Or to understand better, you can google: waymo scale laws ========= Education? The two methods intrigue me. Around the world, most countries have about 1 in 6 people educating others. Second question: If we had Artificial Intelligence in 1890, how would it have responded to the dilemma of the Michelson-Morley experiment? Heck, if Artificial Intelligence had existed in 1630, would we have discovered calculus?

Sarcasm is saying the opposite of what you mean. But if you blink, it becomes irony: An inside joke. ====== I recently watched an interview with Eric Idle. (He's still alive, as well as John Cleese - they both live in California.) Idle hates Trump. Irony.

Bump. ==== In Canada, we cannot reduce federal taxes = except in Quebec.

Clueless. ===== In Quebec, because of glaciers, we have moraines and natural dams.

I suspect that "British" Columbia is in fact a large place.

Legato, with that post, I'm going to assume that you are an AI, CGI, robot. I am a real person.

Huh? From what I understand (I live in Montreal , the Vancouver Island has three federal ridings.) ==== Alberta has access to the ocean through northern BC, or Alaska.

Missed chance for federalists in Quebec.

Deng made this possible. ==== OP? I was wrong.

Some people were here first. Others later. In America, some people were forced to be here. In Canada, we get along. And we still have two languages. ===== Cuba and Brazil are remarkable; skin colour doesn't matter. In Jamaica (and the US), skin color matters.