There will be three cleaning days this week and then I shall be ready for my daughter's return. Chicken Stew greatly enjoyed last night and will enjoy it again for two more nights. I am really not much of a foodie and the basics of that stew are Canadian stored vegetables - onions, potatoes, carrots and brussel sprouts since they are still in season - one of my favourite vegetables but not enjoyed by my family in general. Hence they are always in my stews that I eat alone. I also add frozen peas and corn (all Canadian) and of course Canadian chicken. It is nice to have the fresh fruit and vegetables from the United States (which I buy in good quantity) but if they are going to put a 25% tariff on us then I can just eat stored vegetables and frozen Canadian fruit and our apples of course last well into the spring. It is called tit for tat and when you upset the apple cart that is what happens. The people who suffer are the producers whilst the government rakes in the money so that they can give it back to the rich by reducing their taxes which is just silly. They made all that money on the backs of the hard working Americans. How do they spend that money generally cluttering up the skies with their private airplanes and polluting the air that we breathe.
I still think that 13 new states in the United States is an interesting proposition but not a 51st state so that we could be turned into some sort of a second class American. We would be a solid front against any aggression by aggressive peoples! But we can also do that as the United States of America and Canada standing together to take care of this part of the world as we always have been for over two centuries.
Here people create industry using the talents of Canadians and then sell it all to the United States so that they can retire in Florida and still try to call it Canadian. A weird thing. What made Canada great (and we are great) was people creating industry and then maintaining it Canadian not selling it off just so they can pollute the skies with private airplanes and hide away their money so that they do not have to pay taxes having made all that money on the backs of Canadians. I am a Canada first person but I am very fond of our wonderful neighbours and cousins (in my case) in the United States. Long live the United States - Americans are the kindest and most generous people in the world. But like here they have greedy people too who only think about jetting about in their private planes and polluting the air and fighting paying their taxes.
On to the day, perhaps I will finish the index today for the Siderfin book and then a re-read and then publish it and be done. It will be ready for revision from day 1 and I really do not care if anyone wants to do that. Then the Blake and the Pincombe books and quiet seclusion will be mine once again for a few years whilst I work away on these books that would please my grandfather and my mother and uncle so very much I am sure.
Lots of snow; it is nice to see and I am sure the trees are very happy and the plants are nestled deep into the ground beneath all of that protected from the severe cold that does permeate Canada through the winter.
Teatime, I am forgetting, tariffs are blocking my thoughts. It could be the making of Canada as we tear down those barriers between the provinces and survive the four years until perhaps there will be another Reagan and another Mulroney to put together an efficient trade package that benefits both Canadians and Americans on the ground because it is those workers who daily go to work in each of our countries and create the great countries that we are. We are linked by blood, by the longest demilitarized border in the world and by politics; we are the same kind of people. We like peace and we like to help where help is needed. At fourty million we are a sizeable commodity to be lost to manufacturers south of the border. Considering the difference in population trade deficits are going to appear here and there it depends on the season of the year - we definitely buy a lot more from the United States in the winter when we are nearly and mostly 100% covered by snow so not much growing happens (and you need to include all that is sold by the American companies that sell directly inside of Canada with their stores dotted all over the landscape because it is worth their while to have a distribution centre inside of Canada). But it is a money thing - the wealthy (the 0.1%) want no taxes but they actually use far more of the system that is maintained by the United States and Canada. Their money grows on the backs of the people in these two countries and the 0.1% ers (the ultra rich) need to pay their fair share.
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