Supporting the government

I am always one for supporting the government that won the election; the people do get to choose. I continue to support the methodology of our Prime Minister. I may not always agree with him but as an working economist he has the knowledge and the experience to convert us from an economy dependent on the current trade deal to standing tall and strong on the world stage with many deals including a deal with our friends and neighbours to the south if that is their desire (United States and Mexico). Cutting the GST from 7% to 5% (over time) which was done by past Prime Minister Harper was a very economically unsound move because it funded the government. That was the intention of the GST; the GST was a wealth tax because so many items are excluded that are necessities and so those less fortunate pay considerably less GST over a year (the only people who really benefited were the wealthy). Not long after PM Harper brought in his first government the Stock Market in New York crashed in 2008 and we never recovered within his governance and still we have not yet recovered (as it turned out the era under PM Trudeau was also not productive for Canada although five years of it were COVID influenced) but we are on our way. Balancing the budget by selling off Canadian items to the Americans is not good business practice (the items were making money for Canada - short term money is not worth while in the long run). The budget will balance it will just take time; re-tuning business always take time but we have lots of it for sure. Ontario for the first time with the federal governance of PM Harper was a have not province under his leadership because he only saw oil as an economy for Canada and did not support the industries in Ontario sufficiently. I would rather Pierre Poilievre does not follow his ideas. There are economies all over this country that need to be built up/created in order to make ourselves more self-sufficient. I am a conservative first and foremost but like many I did not support PM Harper in 2015 (that support for the Liberals did not last long as I have always hated the tendency of liberals to toss money at it but I will say this government has been thorough and thoughtful in this process of making us trade independent). I realize that a Stock Market crash such as occurred in 2008 was a cruel twist in an otherwise productive government but one must accept and move forward in a way that benefits all of the country.  We are a hard working productive people (I call that fighting people but I did grow up with four brothers (three of whom were my best friends as a child and the fourth was ten years younger and only ten when I married so that opportunity was missed)) who do well and in our history we built a railroad across a nation having purchased Rupert's Land and became a joined country from ocean to ocean to ocean and then we built the St Lawrence Seaway. All of this on our own - go Canada go. I was pleased to hear Pierre Poilievre say that he would work with the Prime Minister in parliament. Of course he is going to bring up opposing points (we expect no less) but working together is important at this time in our history. That is life. Non support of the government at this time and causing an election will be punished at the polls. 

Chromosome 3 has just under 30 matches left to do and hopefully I will complete that today. Still I could not work on the photo albums. I will have to work hard to get into that I think. It isn't lack of interest but rather it seems like a lot of work for something that is all scanned and filed by time period. The indexes though include everything so again it would be a lot of eye work for me and I can only do so much although my eyes are stronger than a year ago. What I really need to do is to create an electronic file that only contains the family items and then construct the photo albums. It is maybe the better way for me as I contemplate that. It is a massive task really looking at it. One needs to be on a desert island somewhere without internet and just doing that I suspect. In the  meantime I continue to contemplate the process that I will use to phase Edward's grandparents. I know it is a project that was dear to his heart but without any close family (daughter tested) or first cousins tested (he does have a couple of half first cousins though that will be helpful) for autosomal DNA it will be problematic for sure. 

Mostly the matches did all get corrected in terms of grandparent when I went through them for the re-phasing of the grandparents but the occasional item needed to be updated. Separating out Taylor and Cotterill have proven to be the commonest work that I will use the AI to help me with. For the others the matches have been extremely helpful. I still need to check the databases and see if there is anything new that would be interesting. 

Tea all drank and time to do the solitaire puzzles.