August1991

Compared to Europeans, you Americans largely get along. Asians? They are peaceful - until they kill each other, Buddhist/Cambodia style. ==== For centuries, different languages, different religions - we Canadians get along.

1. You Americans foolishly believe that Russians are still Soviets, Communists. (This was Nixon's wrong opinion in 1993.) 2. You Americans foolishly believe that Russians are like Americans. (Carter/Clinton thought like this.) 2. You Americans foolishly believe that Putin is another Hitler. (O'Reilly, Applebaum thinks like this.) ==== I am Canadian. We Canadians are different from you Americans. We live in a multi-polar world.

Trudeau Snr was born in 1919. Trump in 1946. Both were privileged guys. Both did deals. Both married outside their language. ===== And both guys decided to do something good for their country.

1. Of course, you can use a Smartphone. I recently saw two older people tapping and then pushing a phone across the table to have a conversation. 1a. Many more years ago, I recall seeing two younger people flipping through a small dictionary. 2. I reckon that it is best to learn a language in bed. 2a. In bed, there are two people - but one language. 2b. The person who can speak best the other language, will learn most. 3. Music. The best way to learn a language is through music, lyrics. 3a. IME people who sing well on tune also have good accents. 4. Numbers and license plates. All languages have different ways to count. As you walk down a street, look at the plates and say the numbers in your mind.

Carney? People like him lead ordinary people into the cataclysm of Summer 1914.

CdnFox, I agree. ...... It is like the Ukrainian-Russian situation in 2014. It could have been avoided.

Kennedy, Clinton and Obama wanted to make America better. How to do it? ===== Trump is no different.

Fluffypants, Well said. Sorta. Yet, the Democrats have a broader good better argument. America is a greater place. Kennedy, Clinton and Obama had this idea.

Strongly disagree. Call them whatever. They are not anti-Trump. They are American.

Trump is no different from Trudeau Snr.

Perhaps for America. Our PM Trudeau Snr met Mao before Kissinger did, or even Nixon. Heck, he travelled to Red China in the 1950s.

Let me repeat: Ontario is NOT Canada. Or as "you people" would now say, Southern Ontario is not Toronto. ==== Iceland and Newfoundland, islands, have survived - they are sustainable - for centuries. Both are civilised places.

If you don't like working for Air Canada, quit. ====== I suspect that the union has few supporters except government travellers.

I remember such situations in the past. Let's see.

Communism/Marxism is one thing. Russian nationalism is something else.

There is a huge difference between Soviets and Russia. You Americans don't get it. I was surprised that even your Nixon in 1994 didn't get it.

Here, I strongly disagree.

WTF? Russia? Does not have land? I am Canadian. I have traveled to various parts of Canada and Russia. By car. If there any people who under distances, they are Australians, Americans, Canadians and Russians.

Precisely my point. ===== Canada is a federal state: Canada has two official federal languages, but Canada has no official culture.

In the summer of 1914, a European elite foolishly destroyed a civilisation. For the next 30 years, ordinary people suffered. I fear that since the 1990s, an elite is making a similar mistake.

IMHO, Pierre Trudeau understood Canada far better than Pierre Poilevre. And Carney? He and he is wife are ambitious bureaucrats: they live in a different world than ordinary Canadians.

I could be wrong but I thank that Emmanuel could get more votes, more Americans would vote for him, he could get more electoral votes than - JD Vance.

Note to Carney advisors: Ontario is not Canada. Note to Poilievre: You coulda been a federal PM.

Let`s see. True, the CAQ just lost a bi-election. But this PCQ lost worse.

Trudeau Snr and Lévesque were wise to all these games. ==== You can quote me: Trudeau Snr was a federalist more than a democrat. Lévesque was a democrat more than a federalist.