It really comes down to: do the citizens want a collective socially responsible leadership or an individual rights dictates all leadership. Socialism or Libertarianism. You cannot have a system that continuously waffles from one to the other, like the Americans are trying to do. The problem with 'democracy' as it is practiced in American society is that they insist on using a two-party (socialism vs libertarianism) adversarial system that keeps battling back and forth, winner take all. In that system, the 'election' only determines which side gets to tyrannize the other side. No matter who wins, the other side feels threatened by 'terrorism from the other side's dogma'.
Daryl
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The 'gold' refers to the cost, not the strength.
It has been pretty much ascertained, even at the neurological level, that humans are a herd animal. For instance:
https://academic.oup.com/book/11486/chapter-abstract/160205905?login=false
The fact is, those who completely understand this, and have learned how to manipulate it, will be the ones who rule.
The bugaboo is the bullet point
"On-site one-on-one continual interaction with Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) end-users, United States (US) Government - Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate (IWTSD), and science experts."
To what extent will the Americans dominate the ownership of the intellectual property rights demonstrated at this event?
Right. Trump expects Canada to pay for the bullets that America shoots at us.
What you say is absolutely accurate, Carney's name never showed up on any ballot outside of his pwn riding. But they DID vote for representatives who agreed to generally abide by the Liberal platform. So indeed the heading should be 'Liberal' not 'Carney'.
But then again, a lot of Canadians actually voted AGAINST PP to prevent him from becoming PM. Even turfed him out of his own riding. Now THAT is personal.
That still leads to the 'herd mentality' problem. The impressionable voter is still too easily persuaded to vote 'dogma/cult' than 'informed decision'. Human adults, unfortunately, by and large prefer someone else to make their decisions for them, and they tend to vote in alignment with the decisions made by these 'influencers'. Look no further than the last Canadian election - the Catholic bishops in Canada (under the direction of a foreign power - the Pope) all told the Canadian Catholics how to vote (in the last weeks of the election), and it almost swayed the election to PP.
Steve Jobs famously had it absolutely dead-on when he said, about consumer input into his Apple products: 'Consumers have absolutely no idea of what they like and want until I tell them'.
I suspect we are still going to see some form of carbon pricing at the individual level. It still exists for the corporate sector, and I suspect it will increase at the corporate level. I do detect a willingness on Carney's past actions with the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England to not shy away from playing hard ball with industry and business.Someone has to pay for all the damages to infrastructure caused by climate change storm damage.
Can you really have 'true democracy' in a species that has such a strong herd mentality as humans do? True democracy depends on 'free will', 'independent thought', and 'knowledge'. When the population in general can be so easily swayed to go along with one person's dogma or another, willfully ignorant and politically unintelligent, what is the meaning of 'democracy' except that it is about 'best at intimidating, charming, or marketing'? In a herd species, the 'election' is all about 'who do you want to be the dictator?'
But it DOES sent Trump a strong message. I am sure he expected the Canadian market to completely tank.
No idea how he will respond to this news. however. I expect at least a verbal broadside shortly.
And what really matters is how much the consumer has left in their pockets when all is said and done.
Metro is far worse than Loblaws. I have never found their prices anywhere close to being reasonable.