August1991

According to the smart people now, if things go wrong. it's all Trump's fault.

Pierre Trudeau was born in 1919. His mother was English-speaking, Scottish Catholic. His father was French-speaking Ambitious. She crossed lines to marry him and Pierre Trudeau became Pierre-Elliot Trudeau. Fair enough. Trudeau (the dad) did not want to paddle to Cuba in the 1930s. He wanted to do it in the 1950s. BTW, I do know that he went to China in the 1950s. I met his accomplice.

I was recently in the Philippines. On each island (I managed to go to several), people spoke differently. Some of them were working on one island but missed the language of their own island.

As a Canadian, I largely disagree. Education must be local. (Should the State teach? Dunno.) Civil relations? This is a personal, private matter. If I don't want to get in a taxi cab with a particular person, it is my choice. If a taxi driver doesn't want certain customers, it's his choice. We choose who we marry. Language? The State must communicate to me in my language. Abortion? Death penalty? Dunno. I would leave this local.

Agreed. If I were Carney, I would make this plain.

Why can't I buy Wisconsin cheese?

Trump is correct. There are many trade barriers between Canadian provinces and the US and Canada. "Why can't we buy beer in New Brunswick and bring it to Ontario?"

From what I understand, this is the correct response.

Americans? We could not wish for better neighbours. And you Americans? You are lucky to have us to the north.

Sweden and Finland joined NATO for practical reasons. They are buying American stuff. But 5%?

Someone in the Canadian government must go to Miami and remind Trump that we both win when we get along. Nixon tried this in 1971. Trudeau sent people south. ==== We in Canada have our own free-floating currency.

1812? They invaded us in 1775 - as part of their revolution. The American soldiers froze and left on 31 December 1775 - they had not been paid. ==== Americans could not hope for better neighbours. And we could not hope for better neighbors.

Trump? Americans are self-absorbed.

Imagine if Obama had said: "I want to put Negros in their place. And their place is in America.".

The secret to Canada's success is that ordinary people cross lines. We get along.

Mearscheimer's view is that a State is like a single person. He views the world as a few persons (gangsters) facing one another. ===== I view the world differently. I see the world as gazillions of people.

And yet, we get along. Canada has never had a civil war. ==== Montreal today is like Lemberg once was - a city where different people live together.

I disagree. Most of the world votes/chooses/aligns along racial/religious/colour lines. We Canadians have a long history of crossing lines. We get along.

Welcome!

I frankly believe that it was possible to avoid the cataclysm, horrific diplomatic disaster of Summer 1914. I'm not sure if it was possible to avoid the US Civil War..

That is the real poliitic Mearscheimer view. But what if a megalomane/sociopath such as Napoleon/Hitler gets hold of a nuclear weapon? In the 1800s, Napoleon thought that he was changing the world.

America? Many societies, countries, have minorities - problems of getting along. Europeans fight often. We Canadians get along.

Trudeau famously said, in English: "I want to put Quebec in its place. And its place is within Canada." Obama famously said: "Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America — there's the United States of America."

Who TF are you? To me, Mark Carney is like Ignatieff. (Note: Ignatieff spoke far better French.)

For the PLQ, the Anglo vote is toxic. ==== Quebec is a cauldron.