Subj : Re: I watched the 'talk' To : AARON THOMAS From : Rob Mccart Date : Sun Mar 16 2025 02:19:00 RM> We have cut way back on that already but, and this is important, the RM> reason we are cutting back is because of housing problems, which means RM> that they are mostly staying in Canada, not crossing the border. AT>Until they hurt someone. When they need to flee law enforcement, it's places >e New York that they can run to. Yes, that is true and happens in both directions, as you mentioned. AT>Illegal immigrants are smarter than mice, and mice can find their way through >maze. With the Mexican border secured, it seems scientifically logical that t >'ll start taking the Canadian route. The biggest difference is, to cross to the USA from Canada, they have to have flown into Canada legally. They can't walk or get here on a boat as easily as they can into the USA. So those here are almost all just 'tourists' to us. Some may come in with the intention of crossing into the USA for some reason but they are not illegal when they are here unless they've been here longer than allowed and are now fleeing to the USA. A lot of Americans probably wouldn't guess that Canada is a much more popular choice to move to. According to the NY Post, Canada is the most popular in the world and the USA didn't make the top 10. In the past few years Canada seemed to often hit about 3rd or 4th place with the USA down around 8th but things have changed a bit RM> Since Carney is an ex Major banker it's hard to say what he will do RM> for/to the country. Bankers are generally very Right leaning so, RM> even if he's not as bad as most of them would be, he will almost RM> certainly be a lot more that way than Trudeau was. AT>Let's see what Mark Carney is made of. If he can end the trade fiasco with th >SA, then Canadians might appreciate him. But if he can't do i by election day >hen maybe you guys need an eye for an eye (a Trump for a Trump!) He has already cancelled a lof of the Carbon taxes and has cut the number of people in his Cabinet from Trudeau's 37 to 23. He's made certain claims suggesting he won't cancel any programs in place that benefit poor and older people, but we'll have to see. He will likely call an election very quickly and, if he doesn't win it, this may all be moot.. RM> We recently had an election for the Provincial Premier (think Governor) RM> and the Conservatives got about 11 times as many votes as the Liberals RM> in this area. AT>That sounds excellent to me! What's your impression of Doug Ford? How well is > doing for you personally? Later after I wrote that I wondered if it would confuse people since Provinial elections have nothing to do really with the Federal elections. As I said, it's like electing a Governor for a state rather than President. As to your question, I generally lean towards the Liberals than the Conservatives like Ford, but he coped well and took fairly good care of the people through the Covid crisis, and actually instigated some things like grants for low income people reducing the cost they pay for electricity, a bigger thing up here since we do so much more home heating than most of the USA does. So, my answer is that I'm not disappointed he got back in and I wasn't really interested in any of the other party leaders running this time around. It will be interesting to see what he does Re: Trump. He's about the only one who has really threatened Trump back, not that that is necessarily a good idea, but he did. Ontario supplies electricity to millions of Americans and he is talking a 25% tariff on that and maybe cutting it off completely if the USA tariffs go on too long, but he was forced (?) to back off on that temporarily until he meets with a lot of your gov't people after Trump said he would raise the tariff on Steel and Aluminum to 50% if he did that. Ford's a funny guy.. He made a lot of points in his first election by promissing to lower the price of beer so a lot of people thought he was a bit of a buffoon but, when serious stuff started happening like Covid, he handled it better than most of the rest of the country. --- * SLMR Rob * I haven't lost my mind; It's backed up on tape somewhere! * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105) .