Still a little left to do and then the cleaning complete for the week. Yesterday and Sunday were busy days but today perhaps a little less busy although there is some snow to remove from my porch and patio before the freezing rain begins. Then I will defreeze that with our non polluting anti-icer and heavy snow is expected on the weekend; sounds great.
Amazing how quickly the nails grow on the fingers actually. I think I am very busy for the most part and just suddenly notice that they are long once again as they probably always grew this fast! I remember the older man I visited at the Nursing Home in my teen years that knew my grandfather. He liked his nails to be short and so I would cut them for him. He always seemed so very lonely and yet full of memories. A good way to be in one's declining years I think. I only knew him for about one year and then he passed away. I started to visit someone else whose daughter was also in the nursing home as she had multiple sclerosis. They were friends of my grandmother and as my grandmother found it harder to go and visit them I started doing that. Again wonderful historical facts emerged from that visit as this woman had traveled a great deal with her husband. I think I must have visited them for several years now and then I was off to university and time just disappeared for those extras. It was on my way home to or from high school. But they knew I would not be coming so often and then they moved to the west coast to be closer to one of her sons. That worked very well for them and my grandmother continued to correspond with her and kept me up to date.
Watched Power and Politics last night once again and some discussion on how the government is managing. The sudden increase in support for the Liberal Party namely Justin Trudeau was discussed as he does dominate the party although a short chat with one of the cabinet members on Syria was interesting actually. I do wonder how many of the 45,000 Syrians that came will return to Syria. Probably a lot of them as they did not leave willingly but in haste and in fear for sure. It is their country after all.
I think enough is not being made of the thought on Canada linking with the United States. There are individual groupings of States within the 50 States that have meetings and we could maintain that sort of similar grouping as 13 States with the naming including Canada in the title of the subgrouping that the individual groups have though (but not second class American citizens lumped into one state; our provinces/territories all manage their own education, health care, infrastructure, policing and other items - the feds just pass the money) and we have a lot to bring with us for sure. Canada is a wealthy country and brings a lot to the table although a great deal of it belongs to the First Nations and they too would need to agree. I even think that the French in Quebec could survive and would provide a sort of nucleus for those states just south of the Quebec border where many descendants of the present day Quebec population now live - a sort of French group. It would certainly have an impact on the Congress. But then it was Donald Trump who hinted at union (51st State) not us. But it is interesting and I think investigation is worthwhile. Plus the herds of wild animals could still roam freely across the landscape of North America as there wouldn't need to be a fence! But I can see that this would be quite a while in discussion; long after President-Elect Donald Trump has been replaced by the next President of the United States.
But we also need to look at breaking down the barriers in trade between the provinces/territories so that the impact of such tariffs is minimized. Buy Canadian would have to be the slogan that carries us forward. I hate to see it happen as it is nice to have the fresh fruit and vegetables coming across especially in the winter; the cheeses from Wisconsin are wonderful (their very excellent milk goes mostly to the western provinces) and many many other goodies come north to us.
The American system of policing is more advanced than ours and they have mentioned that organized crime is moving in to Canada. Although Montreal has had organized crime there for quite a while; I was forgetting that. Their experience with their federal police forces in that regard would be handy likely nonetheless to help our local provincial police services in combating that if we are the new set of thirteen states.
If I wasn't so busy I would make a list of all the American companies known to me in Ontario as there are many of them selling to us directly here in Ontario and one does wonder is that being taken into account when one talks about trade between countries. I do remember my classes in economics discussing trade. Teaching engineering, physics and chemistry students was certainly an experience for these non math/science economics gradates working on their masters and PhD. We could dance circles around them with our knowledge of math and science for sure and did. In a way it is a pity they didn't give us one of their best scholars as a teacher so that he/she would be confident to challenge us instead of just dreading coming and glad when the year was done. But it was interesting learning the concepts of economics for sure; that was why we were there taking an arts course! Some people chose psychology and others sociology but the bulk of us took economics.
On to the day; still lots to do but less stressful.
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