Queenmandy85

In the past week, it all most appears that China would be a more reliable ally than the US...at least until November. They are at least delivering on medical supplies rather than the US ripping off their "allies" like Germany by stealing shipments of medical supplies.

It won't work. Americans would never accept our system of government and would never give up their guns.

This is Canada. We measure in hockey sticks. (I prefer downhill skis, myself.)

I wrote that niave piece after having spent 3 weeks in a cabin in the Kootenays. I can't believe I was so out of touch. (Thousand of others can.) We did not go out for supper and I am now hunkered down at home wishing I was back in my cabin for the duration.

Premier Ford seems to have grown into the job rather well. I am pleasantly shocked.

Laying blame is a waste of time. Put that stuff behind us and go out and live large. New beginnings are coming down the track.

I plead ignorance with regard to Singapore's leadership. I endorse neither right nor left. Ideology is impracticle. Some problems are solvable by conservative action and some by liberal. Some problems defy solution and sometimes luck makes all the difference. In the current situation, strong government action based on science, seems to have a positive outcome. Ronald Reagan was considered a great President. He was smart enough to know his limitations and surrounded himself with people who were smarter than he was and he listened to their advice.

The left believes the public are not smart enough to make their own decisions and therefore require a strong leader. The right believes people do not require big government to act as a nanny state.

Strong leadership is a left wing concept. It is incompatable with individual rights and freedom. If you want strong leadership, look to China, Russia or North Korea.

Canada must be doing something right. The US has twice as many cases per capita as Canada. This is mainly due to Trudeau's government listening to people who actually know what they are talking about. Note to self: Never play poker with the officials standing behind President Trump at the press conference yesterday. When he said he had a feeling that the malaria treatment would be effective and that he was smart, not one of them cracked a smile or gave any perceptible facial reaction.

The real good old days are about to start in a few months from now when we start the recovery. Good old days are what you are prepared to make them. When the all clear sounds, lets get out and rebuild and celebrate. Leave the negative garbage in the past.

The Poles, Czechs, East Germans, Romanians, Bulgarians, Hungarians etc. will be so happy to hear that.

Our grandparents also allied with a tyranny led by most terrible murdering tyrant in history, Stalin. It was Soviet blood and American taxpayers' dollars that beat Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo. That is a great plan. I plan to do "something" about getting a million dollars.

Hitler did not have nuclear weapons. If you want to halt Xi's foreign policy, would you be willing to go to war? What would be your alternative?

The epidemic appears to follow a consistant pattern. It crests about 2 weeks after it takes hold in an area and declines for another 2 weeks as people recover. Italy has the most per capita cases at about 450 cases per million( Canada currently is 11.7). In other words, most people will not get it. Of those who do, most cases are mild and few people die from it. Canada has the advantage of seeing the experience of other countries and we can act accordingly. If we make the effort / sacrifice to stay home as much as possible, and wash our hands thoughly and fequently, we can minimize the impact and we will be in full recovery a month from now. The website below makes interesting reading. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

We have to keep a grip on perspective. This is more serious than the flu but it is not the Black Death. I am going out for supper with my son on Saturday. The question arises is it safe to go to a restaurant? In a city of 260,000, we have one case of covid-19 and possibly 3 we don't know about yet. The chances of coming in contact with the virus on Saturday night are almost nil. OTOH, even if you do catch it, either you don't get sick, you get sick for a couple of unpleasant weeks or, in rare cases, you need hospitalization. Almost nobody dies. Thank you Rue for your insight and Taxme for the comic relief.

I love President Bush's comment after the 2016 election. " I guess I',m not looking so bad now."

The only changes I would make to the Constitution is to replace the position of the Prime Minister with direct rule and the prohibit any further changes. Eliminating the PM is easy because it is hardly mentioned in the Constitution.

I wonder if we would be in this situation if Prime Minister Harper had not reneged on the Kelowna Accord.

Everyone seems to be missing an important point. What do the American voters want? From perusing a couple of American political forums, it appears a large segment are worried about gun rights and immigration. Since the voter is always right, it would be wise for a politician to listen to what voters actually want and address their concerns rather than telling them what they should think.

The rape of Nanking, the enslavement of large numbers of Sinixt by the Shushwap, the forced removal of the Kootenai from Southern Alberta by the Blackfeet, the genocide of the original first nations in the eastern arctic by the Inuit, the massacre of the inhabitants of Jerusalem by the European allies in the First Crusade, the Rwandan genocide, the mass execution of 4500 Saxon prisoners by Charlemagne at Verden, the Cultural Revolution in China, the Holocaust, the murder of tens of millions by Stalin. There are many more examples. My point was that the protesters in this instance, should be aware that the actions they accuse others of doing have also been done by some First Nations to others.

No, it means people are all the same. We all have the same virtues and vices. The solution is to not repeat the same atrocities our ancestors committed. Patience, respect and conversation works.

While I generally understand and respect First nations, I would like to ask this tiny minority where are their protests in support of the Kootenai first nation who have never ceeded their traditional homeland in South-Western Alberta they were forcibly removed from by the Blackfeet? What about the Sinixt nation who were enslaved and forced from their traditional lands in the northern west Kootenay by the Shushwap, or the genocide of the first nation in the eastern arctic at the hands of the Inuit? Slavery, colonialism, and genocide are not activities confined to Europeans.

There are two problems with ideology. Ideology is the fallacy that there is one overall philosophy that will solve all problems. It also says that any other philosophy is wrong. It is human nature to disagree over political views but the discussion must always be respectful and friendly because the odds are overwhelmingly certain that both sides are wrong. Governments operate best on a pragmatic basis without reference to ideology. Good topic, SkyHigh.

So, how many votes did the Peoples Party of Canada get? Compared to the votes the CPC and Grits get?