Queenmandy85

No, they learned it from a Conservative, Sir John A. MacDonald and the trans-continental railroad.

It wasn't just Quebec. Saskatchewan had a strong anti-war sentiment. Conscripted soldiers were promised that they would not be sent overseas. When MacKenzie King reversed that policy in 1944, (after claiming the Canadian Generals were threatening a Coup if he didn't), the Saskatchewan "zombies" stationed in Terrace, BC, mutinied, placed their Officers under arrest, and took over the town.

Actually, the money would be better spent on prevention. For some reason, our police are welded to reactive policing rather than crime prevention.

The Government of BC doesn't want the jobs.

The real solution is to put more money into the court process to have trials in a timely manner. We need more Judges and Crown Prosecutors.

A good example is in the Peoples' Republic of China. When a crime is committed, the police decide who did it and arrest the suspect. The suspect is taken into court where a judge listens to the prosecutor and then pronounces the defendant guilty. The prisoner is then taken out and has his brains blown out, or, for minor crimes, sent to a hard labour camp. Some people are acquitted if they have political pull and lots of money to compensate the judge and police. Quick, efficient and cheap.

Please make this clear to your lawyer if you are ever charged with a crime. The presumption of innocence is a cornerstone of justice. Or would you rather live with the French system?

As with our longest reigning monarch, Louis XIV, so is our second longest reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, the State. The GG is her appointee, a "vice Regal Head of State". The Government is the cabinet, appointed by the Queen, but responsible to Parliament.

Kim's goal is clear. He wants to stay in power as long as possible.

When I was a student in residence, I always ordered anchovies on my pizza. Nobody ever asked me to share. ;-)

Yes, I would live next to a Candu reactor. One of the key investments we need to make is in education. Resistance to nuclear power is based on a lot of mis-information. The Fukushima malfunction did not kill anyone. Three Mile Island did not kill anyone. The only nuclear accident to cause deaths was Chernobyl with 45 fatalities. More people die in car accidents in Saskatchewan in one year than in all the nuclear power plant accidents.

I regret I am not an engineer, but would it be possible to sell the residual heat / hot water to the local municipality? Run steam lines through homes and under streets and return the cooler water to recycle through the plant. Just asking?

I like Pizza. Black olives, pepperoni and anchovies. Taxme is buying.

Taxme, just out of curiosity, when was Canada's Independence day?

1. The first King of England who understood and spoke English was John. French was the language of Court and after 1066, the people who ruled England considered themselves Dukes of Normandy before Kings of England. Richard the Lion Heart hated the place so much, he only spent 8 months in England during his reign. Even after John, the monarchs continued to use French. George I spoke no English and his meeting with his ministers were conducted in French. Our current sovereign speaks flawless French, as does the Prince of Wales. 2. Quebec changed hands a couple of times during the Seven Years War. At the Treaty of Paris France preferred to keep Guadalupe rather than Quebec. 3. It is possible to form a government without seats in Quebec, but it is a lot easier to do so with seats in Quebec. Only an idiot would toss away the opportunity to win more seats anywhere. Taxme wrote, "Canadian history has been changed to make it appear as though the battle on the Plains of Abraham was a draw which of course the real history will always show that the British beat their butts. " The Americans also claim they won the War of 1812, but that doesn't change the fact that we kicked their butts as well. The race may not always go to the swiftest, not the struggle to the strong, but that is the way to bet.

French has been the traditional language of Court in England until recently. The French re-took Quebec after the Plains of Abraham, but gave it up to the British in exchange for Guadalupe in the treaty negotiations. It is bad politics to alienate an entire province holding over 70 seats.

The mass production of small nuclear reactors, the mining and refining of fuel and the global sales will be an enduring boost to the economy. Add to that , the rebuilding and electrification of the rail system will further ensure a vibrant economy. It will also inject more funds into the sciences in education. We have a global problem with a lack of positive vision.

Just for the sake of argument, what have we got to lose by reducing carbon emissions? We spend money to up grade our electrical and transportation system. We secure employment in western Canada and central Canada. You can always get more money.

As the proportion of CO2 and Methane increase in an atmosphere, they inhibit the re-radiation of energy from the surface. This is not a theory. You can test it in any under-graduate chemistry or physics lab. The results are predictable and measurable. You should have learned this in your Grade 12 physics and chemistry class. The fact that you didn't is an indication your science teachers should have been fired. The world will not end. The problem is not just the temperature rise. The earth has been hotter before. The problem is the speed of change. Previous warm periods occurred over tens of thousands of years. This time, it is being compressed into a few centuries. The natural systems that mitigate these increases in GHG's, cannot keep up at this rate. Cannuck, I did not advocate we all go back to the old days. I was merely responding to a suggestion that First Nation societies were worse off before contact. The idea that a society needs all these "fantastic innovations" to thrive, is incorrect. However, that is a tangent. The issue is the dispute over the Trans-mountain pipeline. The pipeline will allow us to get a better price for our petroleum. It will provide revenue to governments. Governments will need all the revenue it can get to wean us off burning coal and oil to generate energy. Oil and coal, along with iron ore, are the three pillars of our technological civilization. Oil is essential for lubrication. Iron ore and coal are essential for manufacturing steel. You cannot make a turbine without steel and it won't run without lubrication. Wind and solar are not efficient enough to supply energy for 8 - 12 billion people. Nuclear power is. It will at least give us the bridge to get off fossil fuel power generation until we can use thorium and maybe fusion, although fusion is not very promising at the moment. We have the opportunity to provide the fantastic innovations Cannuck spoke of to the world. People are mistakenly focused on the short term. They see the climate conditions changing over the next few decades. It doesn't seem that bad. But what we are doing now will effect future generations several centuries out. Their conditions will be an unimaginable by comparison. What we do now, over the next 50 - 100 years, will determine if that future is heaven or hell. Our inspiration should be those men in England and Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, who built the canals that fired up the industrial revolution. While the impact was the start of rapid global warming two centuries later, the lesson is the fact that they made immense investments with no expectation of a return in their lifetimes. They did it for future generations. Wow, give me one cup of coffee and I will drivel on for hours. Have a good weekend.

The Europeans didn't have cars, running water or electricity either. First Nations also didn't have smallpox, influenza, the common cold, or alcoholism. They could drink straight from the river. You couldn't do that in London or Paris. They had a stable population and enough to eat most years. Life wasn't perfect, but it was a darn sight better than now. If we continue to remove nature, what will future generations of Canadians have?

Worse violence will come if we don't try to mitigate the degree of change. China already sees the danger, as does most of the rest of the developed world. The US is currently slow to react but they will soon. The lack of education in many areas is an impediment. The sooner the world converts to nuclear power, the better we will all be. Oil and coal are too valuable to burn.

I hardly think so. You are grossly under-estimating the catastrophe that climate change is going to cause.

I agree with everything you say except your mistaking wisdom for foolishness and your lack of knowledge of the quality of life for the first nations of BC before the Europeans arrived.

They are not as expensive as rationing. If we are going to be re-building the rail system and building nuclear power plants across the country, the governments will need money. A bureaucratic nightmare to govern rationing would be expensive. Carbon taxes, if they are steep enough, will work, and they rely on the free market to work. They have already been shown to be effective in BC. The sooner we start cutting oil production, the more oil we will have for the future. Sorry for the thread drift.

The most economically way to reduce emissions is to transition to nuclear power. Next door to Chalk River, the are already working to build small portable reactors to replace diesel generators in northern communities. Electrify the rail system and public transit and we can drastically reduce our emissions. Jack up the price of carbon and use the revenue to help finance the new infrastructure. Western Canada would boom. Sell the technology around the world to nations that don't have it.