Thanks for that write-up. It’s not an area of geopolitics I’m familiar with.
I’m sure that blocks are establishing themselves, and with everything happening now, alliances and such will accelerate.

In this scenario who is Archduke Franz Ferdnand?

It’s not just trucking…we got degree mills spew out fake students. Ruining Canada’s reputation in education, and the ‘students’ working as Uber drivers driving down wages.

TFW staffing Tim Hortons, making it hard for people to start competing cafes. Same with other franchises.

Also, all commercial trucks should be limited in speed to 80kph on the highway, and 30kph in the city, using geo-fencing. All tucks should have front/back/side cameras always on and linked to a blackbox in case of an accident.

Canada should have a good high-speed train network.

We also need run-off elections to prevent vote splitting. Political ridings should be reduced from the ridiculous 100,000 people to 30,000 people.

Pickup trucks need to be smaller, and like sedans, have sloped hoods to minimize pedestrian deaths in an accident.

Cities should discourage car use through tolls. While driving 100cc motorcycles for 14years should be legalized for northern communities as means for kids to get to school.

But all we get is a stupid cultural war.

Definitely need high speed rail.

We need high speed electric rail. Not private airports trying to stop high-speed rail, because it is a competitor.

The airline industry is a disaster. Everyday some airline is on the verge of bankruptcy. Selling the airports is going to make all it worse.

I find that comment disturbing “Quebec social programs and subsidized university tuitions”, it’s so specific in what it hates, subsidized higher education. Basically the person is saying that they are miserable, and they want everyone to feel as miserable as them.

Quebec separatism would good bad, but at least they have a chance of France bailing them out. The USA would not be kind to Alberta, the USA does not extend constitutional legal protection to its territories.

LOL, the US is not going to create another state, it’s too political. Best the USA can do is create another territory, similar to Puetro Rico. Under US law for territories, “fundamental rights apply as a matter of law, but other constitutional rights are not available”, meaning that the US gets to determine what laws apply and what laws don’t. Being a legal backwater means no one will be directly investing into Alberta but into the American companies that can legal do whatever they please in the territory.

If Alberta becomes the 51st state, all the Newfies will head home leaving a large labour shortage in the oil fields. Being an American state, Alberta will have to follow American immigration practices. It would be a real shock for people in Alberta. Lots of Americans would flood in and take Albertians’ jobs, just by the shear volume of people in the States, they have almost 350million people.

Rent out quaint summer vacation homes. Much like people in Maine do now, 100 years after the whale oil industry became obsolete.

I’d never thought I’d see electric cars replace gas cars, even up till last year. Now I’d think that most gas cars will be gone in 15 years. When tech revolutions happen, they happen fast. Europe, Asia will quickly go all electric, as well as India, Pakistan, Egypt, S. Africa. Followed by S. and then N. America.

Look at pictures from the 1980s and 90s, it was all medium sized sedans, and small hatchbacks; times change.

Venezuela will start to pump oil. The Middle-East war will end. Europe is going to structurally cut down how much oil it needs. The war in Ukraine will end. Oil from Africa will flow.

These capital investments aren’t expensive. A $1billion investment into something is nothing nowadays, internationally, so we should be really suspicious as to why these are not getting invested into. I don’t think they have a chance of turning a profit, just money pits.

Carney needs to start a loud public investigation into foreign money. Expose these jerks.

Can we go higher on the salary, sure. Let’s make it $1milion a year.

But, who do we want running the country? I’d like someone with the guts to raise the salary, but also say that they’ll willingly dis-invest and put their assets in a blind trust.

Yes we do. Don’t hate democracy.

Look at the size of ridings in 1867, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pearce_Howland Total Eligible voters 2,243. The winner received 810 votes. By the time riding reached over 30,000 voter participation started to drop significantly.

Still lots of used Smart Fortwo cars around.

Sadly, Nobody cares.

We need two sets of laws for Ontario. In Toronto we want speed cameras, some roads closed to cars. I get that it’s not an issue in N. Ontario. I’d even let 14 year olds drive in N. Ontario because of the distances, if we make people start by driving a small 1L car, before being allowed to buy an SUV in the Greater Toronto Area.

I hate that his corruption goes unchecked. The OPP, TPS and other police departments in Ontario all need to held accountable and leadership changed.