August1991

Chretien famously told Bush Jnr that we're not sending any troups to Iraq. Trudeau Snr famously, as PM, went to Red China before Kissinger.

What would have Poilievre done any different?

Shady, I agree. It is not clear what this budget is doing - except that there are no tax increases. ===== Trump? Biden? Clinton? Bush? No one can win an election against Santa Claus. ====== Remember 2008? We Canadians are solid - except we live aside gamblers.

Why are urban people so leftist? ==== I know the city of New York as a tourist. (I had an aunt who married a New Yorker from Brooklyn, but they moved to Long Island.) Years ago, I recall flying into JFK from Frankfurt (AMS?) and the two young women beside me. First time to America. I explained that foreigners only care about Manhatten, below Central Park. I showed them the map, suggested that they walk. And I gave these kids Gershwin in their Walkman.

OTOH, The US is the only successful federal state/regime without a consumption tax, a VAT, a GST. To solve America's HUGE federal deficit problems - and rising, America needs a federal consumption tax. Trump is the kind of guy to impose it.

This ain't gonna happen. The GST is a hated tax, making trade easy is hard and getting people to get along is what makes Canada great. It is proof that Trudeau Snr and Mulroney were great Canadians.

Disagree. Carney is a wise, careful bureaucrat. I have wondered how Poilievre would have dealt with Trump.

Here, I strongly disagree. ===== We live in the post 1990s world. The Soviet Union no longer exists. Communism is no longer an ideological threat - except in western universities, parts of South America and American cities.

AG: Better helicopters, agreed. But do we need 5 zillion helicopters?

You miss my point. Americans nowadays believe that technology will protect them.

Please explain. WTF? Imagine the incentives! ==== In Canada, I declare an income. The federal takes a cut. The province takes a cut. Municipal? The city has a property tax. I cannot reduce any of these taxes with the tax I pay to the other level of government. Imagine: Quebec government says that you can reduce your federal tax with taxes paid to Revenu-Québec.

Pay for what? We defeated the Soviets/Communists. Who are we fighting now? Let's get these guys to stop fighting, get along.

Sadly, that's what Carney is. At least Trudeau Jnr was a Canadian.

Gimme a break. This is not the 1960s (when the Soviets were about to take over - and trust me, JFK, LBJ & Nixon were right to oppose those guys. You Americans won.) The 1990s proved to everyone that the Soviet system, Maoism, does not work. Communism/Socialism does not work. ====== Russia? China? 2020s? We now live in a multi-polar world.

Education? Same standards everywhere? And who decides these "standards?" ===== Civil rights? Do I have the right to refuse to get in a taxi? Murder? Criminal law. Petty crime? Both criminal and civil. All 50 states? IMHO, what makes America great is that it is not one country: it is 50 different countries. On the issue of abortion, your US Supreme Court recently agreed.

In Canada, we generally submit one single federal income tax form. In this federal form, we must declare a residence, declare an income and we pay a federal income tax - the provincial income tax is a portion, it is not deductible. In Quebec, I submit two separate income tax forms. In my federal form, I can reduce some of my federal taxes based on Quebec taxes. In Canada, we pay our local property/school taxes separately. In Quebec, I cannot deduct either from my federal/Quebec income taxes.

Apparently, Rubio has used this joke before. It works.

Trump set-up the billiard table. It was Poilievre to win the game. Trudeau Snr would have won - and grinned. We're now stuck with a bureaucrat: Carney.

Mamdani and PP are both good communicators. Similar. Here's the difference: Mamdani was running for mayor of a complicated city; Poilievre was running to be PM of a complicated country. Mamdani cannot be a nationalist. Poilievre should have run a campaign with a strong Canadian/Quebec whatever nationalist flag.

Is federal Canada sustainable? We can't buy foreign milk. And Albertans can't sell their oil abroad. Voters in Ontario are curious to know.

Americans are very proud of their technological prowess. Hiroshima; this recent bombing in Iran. ===== But is that the measure of a country's will to exist? Put paper on the table. Some 40,000 Americans died in Korea. About 50,000 died in Vietnam. About 3,000 died in Afghanistan/Iraq. Some 360,000 northerners (Yankees) died to maintain the Union.

I reckon that Trump just wants our money to buy more American crap. ===== Carney is a bureaucrat.

Rubio is correct. Shut them all down. They have become slush funds for young people who innocently want to change the world. Worse, they are creating rents for potential dictators. ==== Canada once had OFY. Same idea. https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/22/archives/youth-in-canada-drifting-around-with-the-governments-blessing.html

User, Russia? Soviet? Communism? Enemy? China? You Americans confuse all these terms. ==== Reagan defeated the ideology of Communism. Truman and Nixon made the world get along.

Which game? ==== You Americans killed millions in the 1860s. Europeans killed several million over the centuries. We Canadians get along.