Queenmandy85

That is pure bigotry. Substitute references to "Americans" for "Jews" and you see how prejudiced this is.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all. Roast chicken in our house.

Bear with me Hotsie. I don't have much faith in profiling so don't take this personally. Just for fun, am I right in thinking you are a second year Arts student taking either Poli. Sci. or history, or perhaps a grade eleven student (less likely.) Please tell me I am wrong. It won't be the first time.

You are mistaken in my case. I am a militant Monarchist. I bend to the social pressure for a Constitutional Monarchy, but I am a Monarchist first. Hence, my support for the King of Spain.

Advertising is never on the cutting edge of social change.

The most senior member in the Canadian Forces does not express her political views. We run the theoretical possibility of having a Coup or having members refusing to act if the military is influenced by their own political views. The Queen or her designates determine the mission and the officers and other ranks use their brains to accomplish the mission. If you want soldiers to be political, look at Burma or Red China.

So, Altai, by your logic, the Kurds should be allowed to break away from Turkey and be an independent nation.

A good illustration of why it is important to maintain a military devoid of political bias is the Winnipeg general strike. The Canadian Army was asked to give aid to the Civil Power and the officers were concerned that the OR's might go over to the side of the rioters. Members of the Canadian Forces swear their oath to the Queen of Canada, not to any politician. The CAF is not a democratic institution. It could not function if it was.

It is traditional that the military does not become involved in politics. They must follow the example of the Queen and remain above politics. After they are out of the CAF, then they are free to participate in political life. Former soldiers have not historically done well in politics.

In the 1890's and 1900's, we had a huge wave of immigration into Canada. The result was very beneficial for the the country in the long run.

Why don't you run? "most Canadians prefer to complain about something rather than do anything about it." I can't drink beer.

I'll keep this post handy. I'm curious to see how the outcome compares with your prediction.

Thank you. I did misunderstand.

My 2016 tax return indicates the highest federal tax rate ( On taxable income over $200,000) is 33% and Sask. Provincial tax rate maximum is 15%. I am curious where the 90% comes in. If your taxable income is 70,000, you pay 20% and 12% you pay $, leaving you with $47,600. That is a pretty good sum. If you are paying 90%, on behalf of Canada, we appreciate your financial support.

I guess it is just me, but I thought, obviously in error, that anyone making more than $70K a year is rich and should pay more taxes, Trudeau, Sheer, Singh and I included. On the one hand, we bitch about deficits and on the other we complain that governments are not funding the services we use. We all want to go to heaven, but we don't want to die to get there.

It's so simple. Who woulda thought.

Rebuild the rail system and electrify it. I don't have much faith in a cheap, viable electric car but we'll see. Resistance to NP is an indictment of the education system. As I said before, nobody in government really gives a crap what I think. But to paraphrase the movie version of the Sundance Kid, "I've got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals." Hopefully we will have enough snow on Granite and Kimberley for skiing for the rest of my life.

Nuclear power ( either uranium or thorium) is far safer and more environmentally friendly.

Hawking said climate change is a serious problem. I apologize that I do not have a quote. I also believe Gwynne Dyer and Dr. Suzuki. I am not saying you are wrong. The race is not always to the swift, nor the contest to the strong, but that is the way to bet. I would hate to see a spill in the valleys of BC. They can't undo all of the damage a spill causes. I would be happy to go from place to place on electrified rail and heat my home with electricity generated by nuclear power. I would be happy to see Candu reactors manufactured in Canada and sold around the world.

Part of the resistance to pipelines is the possibility of a spill such as the Husky spill. Another source of concern is climate change. I read your view and then I read what Stephen Hawking has to say. Obviously, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer but I am smart enough to believe Hawking.

When you put it that way, it is in the national interest to eliminate the production of green house gases as soon as possible. If they are concerned about what the voters want, then that is in the national interest. That is democracy. In the final analysis, nobody listens to us on a forum like this. We are not representative of the electorate. We mostly inhabit the extremities of the spectrum. Governments are very limited on what they can do. Do they really want to listen to a militant Monarchist like me?

Is that not the point of democracy? Governments do what the people want in order to get re-elected.

Thank you for your input.

How does profit in the stock market now, produce food, transport food to 10 - 15 billion people, provide those people with shelter and energy when we run out of oil and coal in the near future. (There is no such thing as a "foreseeable future"). The object is to feed and shelter people for as long as possible. How does the experience of Easter Island fit into Hotelling's rule.

Never the less, if a province opposes a project, is it right to impose it on them? Does Alberta outweigh BC and Quebec? If a project you were against were opposed by Quebec and BC, would you still feel the same way? There are other resources besides oil. For someone working in the oil industry, there are other jobs out there, other resources, other non-resource Service, industries. We need to be flexible. In my working career, I surveyed for the Forest, was a mortgage and loans officer for a major bank, drove a taxi, and spent 25 years as a peace officer. I've worked in two provinces and the Yukon. We go where the work is and do what needs to be done. If we can't export our oil, we turn to something else. We have uranium, gold, we are world leaders in banking and nuclear technology. We have incredible opportunities in computer engineering and science. Losing sleep over having Trudeau as Prime Minister is a waste of energy. It is unlikely he will be defeated until 2020, so we have to make the best of the way things are. Life is too full of opportunities to spend a moment worrying about things we cannot change and focus on taking advantage the opportunities that are all around us.