Subj : Re: I watched the 'talk'
To   : Rob Mccart
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Sun Mar 16 2025 17:16:45

 RM>   >'ll start taking the Canadian route.
 RM> 
 RM> The biggest difference is, to cross to the USA from Canada, they have
 RM> to have flown into Canada legally. They can't walk or get here on a
 RM> boat as easily as they can into the USA. So those here are almost all
 RM> just 'tourists' to us. Some may come in with the intention of crossing
 RM> into the USA for some reason but they are not illegal when they are here
 RM> unless they've been here longer than allowed and are now fleeing to the
 RM> USA.

I understand that it's more difficult and less convenient for illegal immigrants to get into Canada, and that fewer of them will do it, but it only took 19 people to pull off the September 11 (2001) terror attacks in the USA.

 RM> A lot of Americans probably wouldn't guess that Canada is a much more
 RM> popular choice to move to. According to the NY Post, Canada is the
 RM> most popular in the world and the USA didn't make the top 10.

I believe it. Canada is under-rated. I enjoy it every time I go.

 RM> He has already cancelled a lof of the Carbon taxes and has cut the
 RM> number of people in his Cabinet from Trudeau's 37 to 23. He's made
 RM> certain claims suggesting he won't cancel any programs in place
 RM> that benefit poor and older people, but we'll have to see.

It sounds like he's off to a good start. I doubt that he will cancel anything that the poor and/or old people rely on. What would that do to his reputation?

Here in the parties are constantly accusing one another of having "plans to end Medicare and/or Social Security" which are 2 programs that most of our retirees rely on. It's never happened though, and it's been a traditional scare tactic for decades.

 RM> As to your question, I generally lean towards the Liberals than the
 RM> Conservatives like Ford, but he coped well and took fairly good
 RM> care of the people through the Covid crisis, and actually instigated
 RM> some things like grants for low income people reducing the cost they
 RM> pay for electricity, a bigger thing up here since we do so much more
 RM> home heating than most of the USA does. So, my answer is that I'm
 RM> not disappointed he got back in and I wasn't really interested in
 RM> any of the other party leaders running this time around.

That sounds like excellent work that Ford has done. Did you actually see your electric bill go down?

Canada has recently imposed a 25% tariff on electric. My electric company (NYSEG) is impacted. But my bill didn't go up 25%; it went up about 100%. Look at that difference in percentages. I can not blame Trump nor Canada for this. There's something else in play, but the Democrats in my state want people to believe that this is all because of Trump (nope!)

 RM> Ford's a funny guy.. He made a lot of points in his first election
 RM> by promissing to lower the price of beer so a lot of people thought
 RM> he was a bit of a buffoon but, when serious stuff started happening
 RM> like Covid, he handled it better than most of the rest of the country.

He sounds great to me. I want him to run my state!

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