Subj : Re: I watched the 'talk'
To   : AARON THOMAS
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Fri Mar 14 2025 02:31:00

RM> It seems some things like that are more an excuse than a reason. I can
RM> see the USA complaining about illegal immigrants coming in from, or
RM> through, Mexico, but there's a LOT more of it there than through Canada,
RM> and things like drugs, I'd be willing to bet more drugs are moving from
RM> the USA into Canada than in the other direction. Both things are bad of
RM> course but that should have made a good case for having a united service
RM> working together policing the border rather than putting tariffs on
RM> everything we sell the USA.

AT>I'm with you on that. Law enforcement from both sides should work together, b
  >we need the 2 administrations to work together.

AT>One of the obstacles is that Canada's ruling party (The Liberal Party) is on
  >ission to import all of India's undesirables into Canada. While they're worki
  >on that, there's no way that they can be in cooperation with the USA's border
  >trol. That's like trying to mop floors while you're wearing muddy boots.

We have cut way back on that already but, and this is important, the reason
we are cutting back is because of housing problems, which means that they
are mostly staying in Canada, not crossing the border.

There are what sound like a lot, almost 200,000 were stopped at the border
which doesn't necessarily mean they would have stayed in the USA, just
that they were travelling there.. That said, they figure there are
something around 5 Million illegal Mexicans living in the USA so I
think there's a bigger problem from that end of the country.

Plus that's only Mexicans. There are another 6 million illegals from
other countries there as well.

RM> I'm not sure who would be best in Canada.. A new Liberal leader was
RM> voted in to replace Trudeau and the news that Trudeau was resigning
RM> had already reduced Poilievre's lead in the polls from 20% to 1%,

AT>The ratio of those numbers sounds very extreme. What about people you know? H
  > you heard other Canadians expressing confidence in Carney? Statisticians are
  >rdly ever correct when they "conduct" similar polls here.

As I said, that huge drop was before they even chose anyone to replace
Trudeau, had only announced that he was leaving the party.

Since Carney is an ex Major banker it's hard to say what he will do
for/to the country. Bankers are generally very Right leaning so,
even if he's not as bad as most of them would be, he will almost
certainly be a lot more that way than Trudeau was.

The few people I talk to mostly don't like Poilievre but, until recently,
they only had Trudeau as the main alternative. But now there's another,
or rather a NEW option, so those numbers are 'possible', but you never
really know until an election, and they say we may have one VERY soon,
even though they could put it off until October 20th.

That said, where I live most people are rural and they virtually always
elect the Conservative who is running, good or bad, and it's hard to
have much affect on that.

We recently had an election for the Provincial Premier (think Governor)
and the Conservatives got about 11 times as many votes as the Liberals
in this area.

Actually the Green Party (environmental based) came in a close second
in that election which showed both how much the people were fed up
with Trudeau but they were also looking for Anyone to vote for that
wasn't Pierre Poilievre.

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