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Another excellent essay. Your writing has an independent flair, without the baggage of so many other commentators.

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What ever the costs of Ford's Shoppers Drug Mart for profit surgery clinics are should be deducted from the Healthcare transfers.

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I love our prime minister, I’ve followed and worked politics for 50+ years. After the violent attacks by Harper mentally and physically. Sold off our company’s, not theirs to sell. Our prime minister is intelligent and has compassion. The if people laugh it’s because of all the sabotage. People like conservatives love to hate. Our PM has no media time that shows the hypocrisy by conservatives who are behind every media source. No matter what he appears to be he is doing a better job then any other politician except for Tommy Douglas and Rachel Notley. Our PM works 24/7 he’s a workaholic like Rachel Notley. I didn’t mind the progressive conservatives but these reformed conservatives are wackers. They will destroy Canada and have already ruined our provinces. I have a passion for politics and these Rcons are embarrassing little children. The immaturity and arrogance is astounding. Our PM uses trained professionals for decisions not high school dropouts like Doug Ford. While hillbillies and gun happy people attack our PMJT they have no clue he’s got the rcmp and military making the decisions on guns. The embarrassment online by the Christofascists, lowQ. Some farmers and generally the not so bright and social media crawls with trolls and bots, these times are embarrassing for us political vets. Seeing men online has horrified us women. The Saskatchewan embarrassment, already has dictatorship in, I can’t get out of here bc SaskParty attacked me cruelly. They are pushing us to suicide and succeeded with my

Coworker. Everyone has quirks and people haters like liberal haters dig deep to find something and believe in those false ethics and nothing burger scandals. Yet not one person remembers Harper’s constant criminal activity. Pierre’s fraud charges and Harper’s. People were sleeping until our PM got in. Harper was never in Canada as he taught that horrifying Arthur Finkelstein method around fascist countries. Rcons never listened to laws and constitutions. I want to see the provincial governments to resign, if our PM has to pay for everything then why are these fascist premier’s and monsters getting highly paid? They have no skills on leadership and trigger the high school dropouts or men who love greed. Our countries lowQ anti suckers are controlling our provinces and that’s like going back to the 1800’s. The two loudest groups in Canada are the uneducated people who get media time. I worked so hard in my job for nothing bc SaskParty and buddy insurance cruelly crushed me and I can’t go to the police. My finances were robbed and they destroyed my life.

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Nicely said and best wishes to you.

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I've never been a Trudeau fan, but neither am I a detractor. I think your assessment of his strengths is sound and sensible. My big issue is climate, and the Trudeau Liberals are all over the place on that file...however, Trudeau won't want Canada to look less serious about climate change than the US, so we might just see some movement on that front, at least while Biden is around.

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Some of this article is bang on but your praise of Trudeau is so grudging I'm sure you've managed to validate the feelings of the Trudeau haters. The truth is there is no other leader right now who is better for Canada. I shudder to think what either Poilievre or Singh would do if they were in charge.

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Happy Birthday young fellow, another good column.

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Good one. BTW, you might want to read my editorials in Sudbury’s French-language newspaper, Le Voyageur.

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I looked I’m embarrassed to say I can’t read French and there’s no translation

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I will definitely look into your editorials

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Good one

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Great summary that represents my lukewarm but objective view of Trudeau. But to get my vote, he only has to be able to blink because the Poilievre alternative is so repugnant.

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