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Subject: Re: [OT] Canada is not a serious country
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On Feb 11, 2025 at 8:29:56 AM PST, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

> Nyssa <Nyssa@logicalinsight.net> wrote:
>>  The Horny Goat wrote:
>>  
>>>  On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 18:38:39 -0500, Rhino
>>>  <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>>  
>>>>  It still makes me angry that Canadian voters tossed out
>>>>  the best PM in my lifetime, Harper, and replaced him with
>>>>  Trudeau FOR NO GOOD REASON. All Trudeau offered was nice
>>>>  hair, lies about the Syrians, and a lot of SJW nonsense
>>>>  that is driving this country ever closer to Third World
>>>>  status. (The Heir-Apparent, Mark Carney, will be even
>>>>  WORSE because he's dedicated to Net Zero.)
>>>>  
>>>>  We need an election SO BADLY it's impossible to overstate
>>>>  it. According to Brian Lilley, who has sources within the
>>>>  Liberal Party, the Liberals are scheming with the NDP to
>>>>  prop up the Liberals until the absolute last possible
>>>>  minute under the constitution, which would delay the
>>>>  election until September 2026 (repeat 2026, NOT 2025)!
>>>>  That would give them ample time to do MUCH MORE damage to
>>>>  this country.
>>>  
>>>  I don't know about Harper being the best PM in my lifetime
>>>  (bear in mind that I met Diefenbaker in person as a child
>>>  - which wasn't all that much of an accomplishment as I was
>>>  a 9 year old and my grandfather was running federally at
>>>  the time - for non-Canadians Dief was roughly in the last
>>>  days of Ike and JFK but left office for good in 1967) but
>>>  no question his replacement was a shadow on him.
>>>  
>>>  Bottom line is by modern standards fiscally responsible
>>>  and despite the rhetoric he didn't do anything incredibly
>>>  shocking unlike Mr 45/47. Of course you could say much the
>>>  same of Paul Martin Jr too. (Martin Sr ran for his party
>>>  leadership and lost on the last ballot to Pierre Trudeau)
>>  
>>  Diefenbaker was still in the House of Commons as a front
>>  bencher in the early to mid 1970s. He was a shadow of
>>  himself then, but still there physically, if not mentally.
>>  
>>  I'll never forgive Diefenbaker for the Avro Arrow fiasco.
>>  Canadian engineers and scientists did a tremendous job
>>  on the creation of that jet which never got a fair chance
>>  to impress the rest of the world.
>>  
>>  OB TV: There is a Canadian made-for-TV movie "The Arrow"
>>  which will explain the work behind the ground-breaking
>>  engineering that helped to create the most advanced jet
>>  airplane of its time and how the whole project not only
>>  got scuttled, but literally destroyed on the decision
>>  made by John Diefenbaker.
>>  
>>  Nyssa, who holds a grudge a LONG time
> 
> I thought Diefenbaker was a wolf.

No, that's Wolfenstein.