Wowee! An election is in the offing and fever is in the air. The Liberal machine’s choice to field Mr. Carney in the now high-profile volatile riding of Nepean seems to have been a serious error with the rejected incumbent planning to run as an independent. The previous Liberal vote will surely be split, putting Mr. Carney’s personal election success in jeopardy. Poor Mark Carney has descended from an idyll of decorum and deference to the unpredictable bull-pen of political pugilism.
To get into the good grace of Mr. Trump, all that is necessary is to express unbounded admiration for all that is American and that we would like Canada to model itself and its future on American principles, policies and values. This country would be renamed the United States of Canada and our mere “pencil line” shared border while remaining would become less and less of an impediment and of importance. Each province would be called a “State” with a governor. While Canada might retain the name prime minister, perhaps president would be more acceptable. British sovereignty would be retained but tariffs would be progressively reduced to zero with free trade being fully instituted. There would be no interstate trade and professional skill barriers. The envisaged process would be termed amalgamation not assimilation.
If the above plans were ever to come to fruition we would have no tariffs, much reduced taxation, greatly improved health care, unlimited no see-em, no hear-em F47 fighter jets and ice breakers or so Mr. Trump assures us. He himself would be mollified and placated.
It is incumbent that I attend as many hockey games as possible. The other evening the favoured team lost despite dominating with shots on goal and scoring chances. One did not require to be an afficionado to understand why! Our goalkeeper was a modest sized svelte young lady while the opposing goalkeeper was significantly larger and literally filled the goal mouth.
My solution to the above problem is that goal posts should come in different sizes just like items of clothing i.e. small, medium, large and extra-large, and the goal mouth should be commensurate with the size of the goalkeeper. Male and female sizing and colour coding would be required.
My hockey suggestion should not be too provocative but my thoughts on the problematic Canada/U.S. situation may be more controversial. If anyone has better suggestions, let us know. - do not take mine too seriously.
