Partly because I normally vote Conservative but on my walk up to vote I contemplated it as I had still not made my decision. Experience played a great role in this decision but I finally opted to vote my normal tendency almost when I had reached the polling station. It was that close. I have no regrets on voting Conservative but I am pleased now to see a majority government in the Liberals with Prime Minister Carney at the lead. As I walked towards the school where I would vote I thought of all those students (several thousand I believe attend that High School) and the need to reach out to them on the part of the government to look toward the trades - we need more skilled tradesmen/tradeswomen in our skill sets of Canada. There are not enough and the need is huge. In my mind I envisioned that the Conservative Party which is the party of small business generally would become active finally in encouraging young people to go into the trades. That has not happenned. We do not hear the Conservatives talking about anything but affordability - that is such a surface topic. It doesn't put food on the table, it doesn't get the youth employed and especially it does not solve the tariff problem. We need to diversify our industry at home and abroad and we need skilled workers in the trades. Affordability will become less of a problem when our youth is fully employed in good jobs. Look at the trades; really examine them as they are so much better than entry level jobs in business which are going to be taken over by AI anyway. Sitting at a desk for long hours in front of a computer and not generating anything useful except to business is a waste of our youth. They could be creating in the trades, building their own businesses and affordability is no longer an issue. Just giving money out doesn't solve it; we need to retrain our minds to see trades and professions as equal in Canada because they are.
Being in opposition doesn't mean you have to be constantly opposing everything. This needs to be a unified government; we are in a crisis of development. The youth are there wanting to work and all the parties should appeal to the youth in their ridings to consider trades to consider the military that is where the money is. There are plenty of graduates from university - the market is glutted. I watched as one of the City Councillors set up a booth at the corner of a street to talk to people about City items last summer. What are we paying these members of parliament for if they are not out there visiting the local high schools/elementary schools and encouraging them to look at the trades; it is decision time and the youth need that sort of support. If speaking at schools is not your thing (and really why are you in politics if you do not speak to all the individuals who vote or will be shortly) than help to get trade fairs set up in these schools to expose them to the advantages of the trades same for the military.
Question Period is a waste of time and CBC can run something on archaeological digs instead (as a tax payer I would prefer to have something interesting to sit and watch whilst I take my afternoon rest after eating). It would be less annoying. The questions being put forward right now by the Conservative Party leader are an insult to the intelligence of the Prime Minister and his Cabinet and to the members of his own party. Somebody needs to tell him; you have a position in the government where you could be appealing to the youth of this country who are unemployed and inspire them to think about going into the trades or going into the military or both - the military leads towards good jobs when they go back into the civilian work force.
Why did I go to university and not go into the trades? Because I am not strong enough to do the work that was done by my father and brothers. I loved Science and spent my time at University studying that and I have used that background a great deal in my working life. Three of my four brothers went into the trades and worked with my father and they had a good life. But lots of women are strong enough to do the trades; they should think about it if the opportunity points that way for them.
One of my pet peeves at the moment is the not in power party waiting on the sidelines for by-elections to defeat the government they are hoping (the NDP is busy rebuilding and I may have a change in views with regard to them; time will tell but I can not imagine myself voting for them unless it was Wab Kinew running some day in the future for Prime Minister). What a waste of money an election would be. Lets get this show on the road; diversify our trade and get our youth employed.
I meant at the beginning to talk about the Sermon at Church yesterday. Our future Bishop in this Diocese was speaking and I found the sermon to be most interesting. Mentioning one of the past Pope's as a lead reference probably didn't hurt either as I do find the writings especially of the modern Popes to be very meaningful. Thank you to her for such an interesting discussion.
Mostly I did not accomplish any work yesterday other than the washing of clothes which I tend to do on Sunday as the machine really does it all and I just have a lovely walk whilst it is running. Then I dry it on racks (the dryer works very well actually but I have never really used it a great deal through my entire life as I like all that moisture going into the air of the house). When I went back to work I paid my two daughters to do the cleaning and the washing of clothes. It worked very well although my husband said an eight year old can not wash clothes. But she did an expert job although he took his shirts to the cleaners. I said we have to have some accommodations with my going back to work. I am not a martyr and refuse to become one. The house was always clean although I helped on Saturday but the bulk of it was done by my daughters. They also prepared meals for the evening as I was the last one home. My husband enjoyed that lovely time with his girls making dinner. When my husband decided to retire he said you should retire too but I said I want to put more years into my pension and so I worked another three years. I knew he found it lonely but our youngest was still in High School and he soon became involved with items she was doing plus the bunny (Peter the Rabbit) had always annoyed him but they became fast friends which was nice as the girls loved that bunny. He also got involved with a number of projects that interested him which he probably wouldn't have done if I had stayed home as it just wasn't my thing. At the time he retired it was the moment when my 3rd cousin George DeKay dragged me into genealogy as he needed a Pincombe Profile for the book he was editing (eventually it was taken over by someone else but he continued to deal with the individuals writing profiles).
Traveling down memory lane is always somewhat interesting and this is cleaning day and it is the basement. I will soon get the Robot doing its task. The first robot in our house thus far.
Tea finished. Time to do the solitaire puzzles.
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