The cleaning went very smoothly yesterday and I also went and bought groceries. I bought one cleaning liquid which had HST on it so a first for me for a bit as I generally do not pay any HST on my groceries. I do think the setup for GST is excellent as it is a wealth tax in many ways and those who can afford luxury items pay the government for the privilege. I would like to see it go back up to 7% or even 10% as it keeps the government funded and as a person first coming into the work force from my University days and into a Federal government job at that time my first pay cheque was delayed for a couple of months I recall because of supply bills. It is much more efficient to have regular money going in to pay the government bills each month.
I really do not have an opinion on the announcement coming about the MOU between Ottawa and Alberta; that is all it is really to put on paper that a potential exists for a pipeline (no private funding has appeared in the wings thus far) between Alberta and tidewater which has been suggested to be in the northern British Columbia area. This is a long way off for sure and a lot of chatting to be done with First Nations in particular who prefer to protect that area of the ocean and the lands that drain into it and feed from it. Myself I still prefer an eastern pipeline to save the cost of buying back our own oil (refined which we could do ourselves) from the oil we sell at a discount to the United States and buy back from them at three times what they paid for it. Ontario is a huge user of gasoline in cars (as is Quebec) and we would see jobs return to Canada and in particular Ontario since we tend to be the big loser in all of this tariff business. But it does require buy-in from private enterprise. At the moment they are enjoying their profits from the existing system and will be hard to shift for sure.
But tariff proof is our aim in all of this attention to what we are buying; where we are traveling and it will pretty much remain that way until the tariff is not affecting our economy in a huge way. The projects in mind are all fantastic but in need of private funding many of them and given the nature of the projects it is highly likely that private funding will be found and we will become the great economic country we were always meant to be but hindered the last ten years by a globe-trotting environmentalist who dreamed of his empire being the most environmentally conscious in the world. But he has moved on and the new Prime Minister, wearing the same party stripe has moved the party along to an attitude that supports economic growth but also regards the environment but not to its exclusion of potential to advance economically. We will make them walk hand in hand over time as our ingenuity is directed in that direction. It will work because we are hard diligent workers who live through long snowy winters trudging back and forth to work every day in spite of the weather. Go Canada Go; Elbows Up (one can not be nearly as efficient with our arms down by our sides) and get the work done that needs to be done to make us an economic powerhouse next door to our friend and neighbour the United States already a massive power house.
Every time one gets a sense that Peace in our time might be in our grasp; the breath shortens and one wonders is this the time that God told us would come one day to our world. Peace beautiful peace; we as a country have paid a huge price for peace in this past century and our youth buried in the battlefields of Europe deserve that peace that they bought with their lives. One prays for peace but always getting ready in case we need to be. One of the trips to France we made visited both the First World War and the Second World War battlefields and accompanying grave sites all beautifully maintained by the French people. It was a stark reminder of that loss of our youth that was mentioned very very often when I was a child in school. Our principal at Elementary School had served in the British Armed Forces and flag raising each day was a precise memory moment every school day. May God bless our military.
So today the last cleaning day and it is the top floor. I also will continue working on the matches and contending with that section of the chromosome with so many matches and the choice is always between Rawlings and Pincombe for one set of siblings and Buller and Blake for the other set. Sometimes, with the Living DNA results, I am getting people who match in particular Buller and Blake just because the frequency of my cousins is so much higher in England than anywhere else in the world. I must be cautious as I work my way through them making sure I am capturing the correct relationship although overall one wrong is not a problem or even several but I like to be precise and want this pass-on ready in case some one in the future becomes intrigued by this fascinating study of family descent DNA in their line that extends down from my grandparents (my six siblings and myself are their only descendants so one looks all the way back to them at all times actually because there are no first cousins and their lines to complicate the passage back to the grandparents - we are it). The great grandchildren of these four is large enough but it will be the great great grandchildren who likely look back and are perhaps curious about the DNA that came to them from their grandparent and it will all be there for my parents when their times come to be the ones that everyone is curious about. I have written both of their stories (300 plus pages each) and will likely add to them as time passes once I get through this DNA phasing. I think about their stories and as I age I realize I am missing some things that probably they would have wanted in their stories so adding to them is certainly in my thoughts.
Tea all drank and must do my solitaire puzzles and soon breakfast and then cleaning begins once again. A routine that was drilled into me by my grandmother and my mother and it just does make life much easier to always have done the cleaning each and every week of my life.
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