If you want to keep saying “we the people”, please study how the US President is chosen. It is much less “we the people” than you think based on your apparent desire for elected representation.

The Canadian Prime Minister requires much more direct support from voting Canadians than the POTUS does from the US population.

The American Declaration of Independence uses some very quotable language, I understand. Please remember that it is not a legal document. It does not describe how that country works in reality.

You are aware that the Prime Minister is not elected in Canada right?

I mean, they typically run and win their seat as an MP but, even if they lose their seat, the leader of the winning party becomes the PM. If they want to sit in parliament, they can run a by-election and win their seat after the fact.

We do not have an election for Prime Minister directly. We elect MPs, the majority forms a government, the government appoints a Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister selects a cabinet.

“The People” chose their MPs which decides the government and then the government chooses a Prime Minister. That is how it works.

If you do not like how the Prime Minister is chosen, you are really going to hate the Senate.

Since you mention “we the people” you may be a fan of the US system. So I will point out that the US president is not truly elected either despite the “Presidential Election”. The will of “the people” goes into selecting the Electoral College which then chooses a President. In my view, the Electoral College is an even less direct reflection of the will of “the people” than the Canadian Parliament. That is why you have had so many US Presidents that won less than half of the popular vote. That is why the votes in some states matter more than the votes in others. Many of “the people” have little voice in selecting the President.

Also, the Electoral College has no function after choosing the President. He gets four years no matter how unpopular. The Prime Minister of Canada has to continue to receive majority support from the MPs in the House of Commons. If the HoC loses confidence, an election can be triggered (potentially unseating the PM).

In my view, the Canadian Prime Minister reflects the will of “the people” much more directly than POTUS does. So please do not rush to adopt US political ideas.

Good. We need to motivation.

We need to completely divest ourselves of the US. The more pressure he applies, the faster it will happen.

Kind of amazed Oz isn’t towing more of the Trump line.

The real retaliatory tariffs would be expert tariffs on oil, electricity, and potash.

The best thing about this situation is that BC has pipelines and LNG ports to sell oil and gas to Asia. It is the best defense we have against the US.

If I was in charge, I would green-light every pipeline and port I could right now. We need a direct energy line to Europe.

Sounds like we agree. The NDP should go hard against the conservatives, and can of course talk up their own game. I think they should tread very carefully though attacking the Libs as they could do just enough damage to hand the election to the conservatives.

The BlackBerry Z30 is still my favourite phone. I like it a lot more than the iPhone 15 Pro I am using now.

Why? If they all had a turn and none of them fixed it, why focus the blame? Sounds like a shared responsibility.

Look at the polls. Mark Carney gained almost entirely from the NDP to tie the conservatives. The Conservatives did not lose a vote.

If I was the NDP, that would piss me off. But they need to ask themselves, who do they want to win the election. It is very clearly not going to them. And, if they dunk on Mark Carney too much, it may not be him either.

Would the NDP prefer Mark Carney or Pollivere? They need to decide because, if the libs and NDP are stuck in a zero sum game, it may actually be the NDP that gets to decide the next election. The conservative vote appears locked in. The only question is how the everybody else is going to vote.

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To be “natural born”, you have to be born either inside the United States or to somebody that was a US citizen at the time.

If you have 11 children and become a US citizen, your children are not automatically citizens as well. They have to apply.

Approving is not the same as removing.

In the short term perhaps. Longer term, our problem is the lack of continued innovation by American drug companies. As the article states, we need to drive investment ourselves. We cannot do that through forced generics though.

We do not need US style price gauging but drug companies need to make money in Canada if we want them to solve future health problems.

Will it be? It seems pretty easy to choose a transition time ( say an hour even ) and to charge the lowest price in the last 60 minutes.

Does it take more than an hour between pulling something off the shelf and hitting the register?

Anyway, I totally hate it so this is not me defending it.