August1991

Disagree, sorta. Competitive people always want to be first - they are zero-sum thinkers. Ambitious people eye the situation. They are positive-sum thinkers. Opportunist? Neither Carney nor Trump is an opportunist. An opportunist is a negative-sum thinker. They break your $100 window to steal your $20 toaster.

IMHO, our current world situation is not 1939 - we are not facing evil. Rather, I think that we are facing a world similar to Summer 1914. At that time, everyone thought the war would be short. We too now think the war will be short - we have technology to win.

Disagree. Quebecers are rich in cheap eco-friendly, hydro-electrictity.

Like our federal guy Carney, this guy Wakeham barely won. Let's see what's happens.

Disagree. If I own zillions of gold on the Moon. I am not rich. The person who figures out how to bring my gold to the Earth is rich. Newfoundlanders understand this about fish - and the Labrador coast. Newfoundlanders have never understood this about Churchill Falls.

I recently saw a photo of Hillary Rodham Clinton. She's no comeback kid. You dodged a bullet with Kamala. ===== Margaret Thatcher is a leader. Like Golda Meir.

Well said. Vancouver Island has three federal seats - true? A poster on this forum once explained the island to me: tree-huggers vs tree-cutters.

If Trump gets a deal with these two stubborn Slavic nations, he deserves a prize.

In Canada, we get along. ===== Let's see.

This is the plan of Quebecers. By chance, they have hydro.

Trump wants us to buy this crap. I think that we should stand up, and so no. ==== We are 35 million Canadians. ($3 each, a coffee? A plane.)

Carney is an ambitious guy. ===== Taxme, have you ever been around competitive guys? There's a difference between competition and ambition.

Alberta has oil. But no way to get to the ocean. ===== Who owns the "resource"? The resource - or the way to bring it to market.

BTW, I am no Liberal. On my mother's side, I'm a doubtful federalist. My father was a true Newfoundlander, a federal Liberal who admired Smallwood.

By chance, geography, Labrador (Newfoundland) has the water, the falls. By chance, geography, Quebec has the space/territory to bring the power to market. Who should benefit from this "resource"? ===== Rene Levesque raised these exact questions with Joey Smallwood in the early 1960s. Ultimately, Levesque (and Trudeau Snr) said that Quebec will take the risk - and gain the profit.

House trained? There is no such place as "Newfoundland & Labrador". (This term is an invention of the 1980s and Brian Peckford.) There are at most Newfoundlanders. And the Labrador coast. ===== Churchill Falls is like a gold mine/uranium mine on the moon. Valuable - but the true value is bringing it to market. The more west you go, the more crazy, risk-takng males are; Newfoundlanders are like Icelandic people - but crazier. Swedes are cautious.

And each conseiller has a vote to change the zoning rules.

In Montreal, we have about 100 conseillers (aldermen) and each one earns about $70,000. https://montreal.ca/en/elected-officials

Disagree. Doug Ford is not a skilled politician. In Ontario, to win, all you have to do is run against the Americans. Robarts. Davis... They coulda chose Timbrell.

In the past, we chose sides by skin colour, religion, language. Most English Canadians disagree with Trump, but they agree with urban Americans. ==== Many French Canadians disagree with Trump, but they too agree about survival.

Trudeau Snr described it as a mouse in bed with an elephant.

1. Wonderful concept/story: Imagine a modern film (21st century) based on such an idea. 2. Look at the women. Look at how characters view good/bad. 3. In the 1940s, their final chapter was our modern CGI: too many shoot-outs.

When Carney first ran for federal Liberal, his French was weird, shakey. I am impressed with his recent French. His accent is now intelligent Canadian English-speaker; he has the vocabulary. ==== I conclude that Carney is a very ambitious guy.

Since Rabourin and Sauve are splitting the vote, I predict Soraya will be the next mayor. BTW: Soraya was once a federal Liberal cabinet minister.

In 1971, Trudeau Snr was a Jesuit negotiating with a Nixon pragmatist. In 2025, Carney is an academic negotiating with a Brooklyn real estate dealer.