In a country where there are so many hunters and so many long guns I did find this hard to believe but I also realize life has changed from when I was young. I worked for a couple of researchers in Zoology for a couple of years and Lands and Forest as it was called wanted to have a culling on Navy Island as there were too many deer. As it turned out one of my bosses was doing deer research and so he agreed to cull the herd and off we went with a number of hunters (mostly working people) including my husband and the cull was done. We collected up all the deer and they were dissected and the parts used as stated by Lands and Forest and my task was working on the eyes (many eyes) each attached to a particular deer number. That cost nothing and I think we need to go back there and do that sort of thing. Seven million dollars is a lot of money to cull a herd. My thoughts for this morning as that was on the news yesterday.
Perhaps that is what this is all about; our buying Canadian. We are going back to basics and buying Canadian in as much as possible but a presentation on the television (CBC) this morning was revealing that so much of our food that is packaged has a mixed origin not Canadian as the flag on the box says. To the credit of Prime Minister Harper at the time there was a good concentration on Canadian content in food. I will give him credit where it is due for sure. That I think is part of the value to us of China building cars in Canada for Canadians. The Auto Pact suited us very very well but the automakers (because it is the aim of a company to make as much money as they can and I come from a business family so do understand the principles) built too many cars in Canada according to the present President shipping them back to the United States where they made a much larger profit because our workers are paid in Canadian dollars and our health care is covered by a Health Tax that industry pays here which is much cheaper than in the United States. So the over production occurred here and was the cause of this horrific withdrawal of the American companies from Canada which is still occurring as they downsize here (and the unemployment rate is not very pleasant to look at). We have to look at it in the long term for sure because a lenient administration to the south might overlook this type of profit making and then we might have one that doesn't and we have to repeat this dreadful step.
So the appeal of China building cars here is that they would be for us. We buy a lot of cars in Canada. This is a big country and it is a rite of passage for our youth to get their driver's license the day or so after they turn the required age and then buy a car and still live at home. The full lane ways testify to that here in Canada. China builds cars in smaller countries than ours so why not here and our problem is solved. Not so much in the way that we are used to (a home grown industry would be much better). We do like cars built by American companies (I come from a Dodge family and over my 80 years I have seen a lot of Dodge trucks for my families' business; a lot of Dodge cars that we all drove and a lot of families were like that). But we have to protect our economy and the President explained very well when he said we sell similar products so we are competitors on some items and Free Trade has bought out/competed out a number of our industries. Mind you Free Trade has been good for all three countries in the past fourty years but will it always be so; that is really the discussion in my mind. We need to recreate many of our lost industries here. I see Brexit as an example actually where the British basically were doing that and still are. Our Prime Minister was there and knows the steps. But it doesn't have to be so brutal as Brexit and again he knows the steps. The larger country in a relationship dominates that relationship and controls a lot of the flow and a discussion helps to meld that flow into something that works for the three countries involved. But I for one do not want freeze dried milk cheese products and other products. I want good fresh milk and vegetables grown on family farms not on factory farms where heavy use of pesticide control and fertilizer rules the day. I will pay more for that and do not buy cheap cheese, cheap milk products but then I do not eat a lot so I can just search around for what I want.
Although yesterday was meant to be a working day on the matches for chromosome 3 it did end up being somewhat of a thinking day. I try not to get involved in all the world affairs anymore. I can not affect it and in the long run it will go the way it goes because the money is the control on final decisions most times. Not always sometimes human compassion and care will dominate like at the end of the Second World War which saw the most benevolence of any time in my life as I remember the newsreels from my childhood but that was an horrific happening that literally killed millions and millions of people in the long run. The murder of six million Jewish people will always be in the minds of caring people - it was so wrong. We went to the show every Saturday (I saw all the newsreels, those pictures of the Jewish children are forever burned into my mind; how could anyone murder all those children; all those adults for that matter) with my grandfather and later my father so that my mother could clean the house without all those children (namely my siblings and I) under foot (I think she had a cleaner at some point but the bankruptcy changed a lot of that for a while).
So the day passed and I did accomplish some of the matches and this one will have to have my eyes totally on it because I had to rework it with new matches in the near past which completely changed the look of that chromosome although I knew long before that that I needed to do that and just sort of did workarounds that didn't correct the main source but it is now corrected but the eyes will be wide open as I work on this chromosome.
Today the Prime Minister and the Provincial/Territorial Ministers meet to discuss items on their agenda. For myself, I see referendums as non starters and why people waste money on their selfish desires is beyond me. Many people in the provinces concerned are not interested. If you do not like the life you have then move on; that was the way of the pioneers - do not destroy what is an effective and welcoming society in Canada (but you can not just land here and be welcomed you must apply to come here and that has always been the case pretty much in our history). But then I admit I have little or no interest in money beyond being able to buy my groceries and pay for my upkeep and never have. Something that amazed my husband as I passed up high paying jobs to take something that interested me. But I do like to see Canada have a good economy and do well for her people (all of her people and I have a particular spot in my heart and mind for the First Nations because my grandfather was a First Nations person in his homeland of England without actually knowing it although he said that his family always lived near Andover, Hampshire, England). It is his fascinating story that I will tell in this book on the Blake family of Andover that I am writing. I am positive of all the connections as I postulate the likely scenario; I believe them to be true but as time passes old documents will come to light and either prove or disprove what I am postulating (just as has happened with the stories of Nicholas Blake (my likely ancestor) which were totally fraudulent and debunked by scholars much more knowledgeable than I about some of these items (created by the American genealogist Horatio Gates Somerby who wrote fancy stories for people who wanted those types of stories). But great science comes from postulating and so does great knowledge whether it be personal or for all the people. One item that should be high on our agenda is disabling robots crossing our border; that will be important in the future.
Tea finished and time to do my solitaire puzzles. The day commences and it is minus 19 degrees celsius and beautiful sun. Another perfect day in God's world here in Canada on a lovely winter day. It is beautiful to look outside; like a Christmas card with all the snow on the trees, on the ground on the houses. God be blessed and loved for all that He does for us as we move forward in time.
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