As I have been saying

Canada, in order to fulfill the dreams and aspirations of the Fathers of Confederation, must diversify its trade and make Canada economically sound on its own. That is what I have been saying for a while now quietly to myself on my blog and they said it loudly back in the 1800s. It was good to hear the Prime Minister say the same; we need it and we can have it but it will be hard work. The same hard work that put a railroad across a country that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans,  5,500 plus kilometres from Cape Spear, Newfoundland to the Pacific in British Columbia. The Trans Canada Highway 7,800 kilometres winds across Canada; we need a four lane highway across the north in the province of Ontario which must get done and sooner rather than later as much of it is only two lines plus a passing lane. This road is twice as busy this past year and the widening is needed and I hope to see shovels in the ground in the spring all across the province. Surely we can accomplish quickly, in Ontario, this tiny bit of road when one compares what our ancestors did over a hundred years ago building a railway from ocean to ocean. 

The auto-workers could become road builders for a time until we have that road done but retraining is more important for sure (we can not live in the past; the future is there for us to grab hold of and run with it). I can think of lots of additions to small engine items with AI coming in and in our present Buy Canadian we would pick them up very quickly. Re-training is what has to happen though; industries come and go and we have to move with the times.  My husband trained for eight years (undergraduate, postgraduate to his PhD) to be a scientist but after a two year stint as a Post doc he went back and did a library degree and got a job. Sometimes one just has to retrain and off you go into a new job. On the other hand we need to bring back the production of washing machines, dryers, refrigerators, stoves, vacuum cleaners and dish washers from the United States - our industries were out competed and closed during free trade and now CUSMA brings these items to us across the border. We could build our own (needed just as much as cars and the same type of  work just smaller) as we did before Free Trade (another good industry (small engine) to create as everyone buys them and the opportunity to improve what we are buying now is huge thus making it interesting).  I am wondering if this Chinese EV catches on if the auto industry building Chinese EVs for Canadians will end up in British Columbia since that is much closer to China. 49,000 cars is really just a drop in the bucket. A small city of 70,000 buying one or two per household (or more) would swallow up all those cars in just one buying spree. I think it is exciting to have this opportunity especially for our youth to have a less expensive car that is also electric (there will still be room for Stellantis to do so as they mentioned they still plan to do EVs here). Plus the tariff easement on canola and other items is great that was gained. Being Tariff proof is very important. Then again a home grown auto industry can also be there; just takes money. 

We share a huge border with our friend and neighbour the United States and will always be friends but we need to be Tariff Proof and that forces us to concentrate on growing Canadian industry by increasing our home production back to the sort of levels and types before Free Trade - our youth needs jobs. 

Writing back and forth with my many cousins these days in the United States looking at our mutual matches. Worked away at the matches and just three left to do. They went very smoothly into the great grandparents lines for the most part. Chromosome 6 was a gem for sure. 

I will start Chromosome 5 today and there are 94 matches with nine known cousins covering three of the grandparent lines. Pincombe is particularly well covered for this chromosome and all are descendant of the Pincombe line none are descendant of the Gray line. The known Blake are all from the Knight line. The known Buller are all from the Buller line. This chromosome could be a challenge as it does not have any known from five of the eight great grandparents (Blake, Rawlings, Cotterill, Gray, Taylor). A quick glance though does tell me I may have been a bit remiss in collecting up the Known so will perhaps have a look at that before I begin. 

Tea drank and must do my solitaire puzzles and then begin on my research.