Did it all start because it was expressed that the United States did not want Canada to make cars for them. We actually had nothing to do with that; the car manufacturers are independent companies that decided to produce more cars here than they sold in order to make a bigger profit on the cars when they sold them in the United States because our dollar has been lower since the Stock Market Crash of 2008 and the car company cost of supporting the medical care for their workers is less here (so they built more here it was said to make a larger profit when they sold them in the United States I guess). Not sure that we benefited other than the jobs perhaps since the money was made on the cars in the United States plus the car companies cost us a lot of money in subsidies and the first $1000 a month of the pension of their pensioned employees I believe is paid by the province - so an expensive proposition car companies although I guess the loss of the jobs will be felt quite strongly. Suddenly we have car plants closing and jobs lost in Ontario because of that is a huge number. But that was just the beginning of the week it appears whilst I hid away from the news for the most part.
What we need to do is to restore our lost industries; don't lose sight of what we need to do (washing machine, dryers, dish washers all sorts of small appliances are no longer made in Canada - we import them from the United States (Detroit I think for some)). We need to regrow our industries that were here when I was younger before free trade (on the one side free trade made us better friends for a very long time; travel to the United States from Canada for vacations became the normal thing to do (it is much warmer there when the cold winter descends here). We spent billions down there (not us particularly we probably spent in the thousands over time although we spent hundreds of thousands here for sure since we both worked and paid huge taxes it seemed!). But back to the car companies, if they want to sell cars here they will have to build them here. Really we just need to knuckle down and get building what we need to buy.
Our youth are a powerful working force and they have the ability to transition quickly to other types of work like my husband at 30 moving from Scientist to Engineering Scientist to Librarian all over less than a two year period (actually 18 months) which took him from graduation with his PhD in Chemistry to a Post Doc in Chemical Engineering then working at CISTI as a Librarian. It only took that long because he had to make decisions and then spend a year at school once again (no one supported him except me but I think the government has start up funds at least that was what I thought I heard). This is taking much too long; it is nine months since the tariff came into view. We should have birthed a few new industries by now and indeed we have some rapidly growing industries that have enlarged enormously over the last nine months. But we need to do more of that; concentrate on what we need to do.
Then there is the separatist march in Alberta (read the Constitution and know that you are welcomed to emigrate anywhere in the world; the world is a friendly place isn't it?). Speak to the First Nations you are on their land. If you do not like it here and your stated preference is to be in the United States they are about to have a whole lot of jobs in the car industry down there! Best of luck we would have been in the United States ourselves (Edward and I many many years ago) but for a quirk of fate (Edward took the job in Ottawa rather than the one in Washington). Myself I am a happy first generation Canadian on my father's side and fourth generation on my mother's side - that is just the way it goes sometimes but I was quite willing to go or stay - it was Edward's choice although, to be honest I seldom make decisions of such magnitude, I did tend towards going south way back then (already my chronic arthritis was making itself felt in the winter and there was so much to see; I did love to see new places in my youth!); when you are just 28 years old the world is at your fingertips. Ontario has been a giving province to Canada for more than a century except for a short time during the time of the Harper administration when we had deficits. That is what provinces do who make a lot of money (the Founding Fathers made sure of that in the Articles of Confederation); the provinces/territories help each other when needed. The oil belongs to Canada (the company that mines it makes a good profit and pays the people who work for them) - it is in the purchase package for Rupert's Land including protection for the First Nations. You are Alberta by the act of the Canadian Parliament and really we should have just extended Manitoba's borders for sure and had just one big province there plus the First Nations have guaranteed rights as said.
Worked in the garden for an hour and completed another length of the fence line (not bad for an 80 year old). Gardening is a lot of work. It just isn't my thing to garden out there I guess although after Edward took ill I went out every morning and worked for four hours (I was only 65 then and used to doing a lot of exercise - hiking, canoeing, biking, running, walking) every day week after week whilst he got better that first time that he had problems. I kept that up actually, although after he had the pacemaker inserted he started to work in the garden again but not quite like he used to. So for a few years we worked together out there which was nice and I enjoyed it. But my knowledge of gardening is pretty weak and I haven't retained it all so just find that it is an enormous amount of work. So it is becoming more and more basic which works very well actually.
Continued working on Chromosome 9 and there are 129 matches in the folder. I am about half way through all the matches. These are interesting as there are many matches to Blake with an average length of 30 to 50 cM and I can tell the line that they come from with all of them pretty much sharing a known common ancestor and some further back (John Blake and Ann Farmer (married at Andover, Hampshire, England and lived at Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England (my two times great grandparents) had 53 grandchildren so not surprising there are so many (how would you ever remember them individually!; the great grandchildren are in the hundreds and hundreds and the great great grandchildren in the thousands and a lot of them still live in England)).
I also spent time on the index for the photo books. So a good day all around and today is Sunday. Another beautiful Sunday in God's world and it is 2 degrees celsius. I woke up to something banging I thought so will check the siding to see if a racoon has tried to break in upstairs. I do not hear anything like that though so probably not; was perhaps just the wind and that huge walnut tree in the neighbour's yard. It was time to get up anyway I have a busy day planned - going to Church online, washing clothes, carting them up two flights and drying them on racks to increase the moisture in the air. Already there is lower humidity in the house. Then there is my research and the photo books. I got an email from Family Search to say they are already going to upload the two books I submitted last week. I submitted the revised Siderfin book (revision of my revision) along with the Companion Charting book and the email was asking if the one they had online was correct and I said no this was the corrected version. Just small corrections except for that one extensive correction replacing John 7 in the descent list with Augustine 7. Not sure how I missed that one actually but my cousin had given me the descent of her ancestor Thomas (brother to my Elizabeth) and I missed that correction. My eyes were starting to feel the strain before my cataract surgery and I noticed it when I started working on the Companion Book so made the changes and uploaded the new version to my server and mentioned in my blog amazingly over a year ago now. So the new version should be up. I just happened to see that they had put it up and quickly submitted the new one. I should have done it sooner but life runs away on me sometime and I am 80. Before I submit any more books I will take the time to read it entirely line by line after I finish and about one month later and then I will publish it. I actually never heard from anyone that there was a correction! I found the ones that I located all by myself. Enjoy the Charting book - it was fun but a lot of work. Since it is on my server and I have a link from my website it is always available but Family Search does collect family books so I thought I would send it to them. I also blogged that original book and no one but me spotted that error. Next time a second full read before publishing a month after I complete it! When I used to help publish there was always a second pair of eyes on everything; I just have one set!
Thank you God for another day in your World. Hopefully we can all learn to live together in this world and be friends. One more amazing thing with my eyes. I am suddenly seeing a more varied set of shades for each colour. Amazing really that my eyes continue to adjust to their new ability. It always comes with a slight headache - amazing the brain is such a wondrous tool and we alone amongst all the world's creatures have such an advanced one. AI is meant to mimic the brain but it lacks human ingenuity/ability to move easily in different thought patterns making links based on our ingenuity which is the source of all the great solutions made in this world, which is why we must always be in charge. Can one duplicate that in a robot? I really doubt it; I think we can come up with, over time, ways to try to do that but the final control will always need to be a human brain which is more functional so long as we keep on using our brains and expanding their capacity. Having the ability to do that is very very important or we become just simple uneducated workers and that would be a disaster.
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