The Prime Minister certainly has his fingers in many activities (managing the restoration and recovery of Jasper/ he is quite amazing) although he definitely works with his cabinet; with the other appointees not in the Cabinet and all of the party to get items done. I find him quite fascinating but then he has worked all of his life and brought to the government those skills and knowledge that he has gleaned during that lifetime of work on two continents since his work in the British Isles placed him right there in the midst of the EU and British Isles.
I think as I listen and watch that he is a doer like the Parliamentarians of our early days when we took on huge commitments and tasks and completed them making us the country that we are now. But it is all the people pulling together to make us great that will help this to happen. When Rupert's Land was purchased the idea was to grow Canada and we did but it was always meant to be all of us (and then Newfoundland joined and added in their gifts) and the projected railroad was going to help with that and has. But the idea that so few would bring themselves to buy such a huge purchase and commit themselves to making this entire country work for all of us is really the secret of those times.
Although we enjoyed free trade with our neighbours to the south and north-west (USA (including Alaska) and Mexico) it did reduce our native industries making us dependent on other sources for so many of our say electrical appliances. Now the opportunity is there for our young people to create and rebuild that lost base of industry to support us as we move forward (it will help to replace the car industries although time may also replace those as the government of Canada has been busy).
Sitting at a desk is not really the best for our young people - they need to be out and active and working with their minds and their bodies to remake some of those lost industries. It is true that you might train for thing and end up doing another where my husband is a very good example as he trained to be a Scientist (PhD Chemistry) and then he did a Postdoc in Chemical Engineering for two years. Still no jobs and he did yet another skill he did his Masters in Library Science and was a Technical Librarian for the remainder of his working life. So do not let what your dreams were impede you from doing great work. The possibilities of having an interesting life are always there.
The Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition working together can do great things for Canada. Decision times can come when they need to come but in the meantime making us Tariff Proof is the most important item on the agenda. Increasing trade between the provinces and territories so very very important (apparently could be as much as 7% GDP over time).
My shopping takes me twice as long as I read all the labels. Mind you I only buy food and maintain a place to live but I mostly buy basic ingredients just because I prefer to make all my own food from scratch. I do not buy packaged or frozen dinners. I do buy some frozen certainly - our wonderful summer vegetables which tide us through to the next summer so beautifully. But not all of them are frozen some of them stored like turnips, carrots, winter cabbages, brussel sprouts, and then there are the greenhouses now that bring us fresh vegetables all winter long.
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