Well you're right he did just have it fall in his lap without an election. But in this case it's just to allay people's fears, only to later have the rug pulled out from under them.
In other words, he's saying it now in the hopes of winning a future election.
Wow
And we used to call it "the wet coast".
Although I don't recall it being all that wet when I was there in the mid-70s except for the winter time when it was raining instead of snowing. But in December 1972 Vancouver got 3 inches of snow and it pretty much shut the city down. Since they only...
Like with every so-called democracy, politicians tell outright lies to get elected and once they're in office it'll be, "well, there's been a change of plan ".
Don't fall for it yet again.
On the day that a 34° temperature was forecast, yesterday, we had instead a nuclear winter. It was quite eerie looking though when I first noticed it upon waking I thought there was a tornado going to be coming along soon. That's usually the case when you see a greenish yellow sky.
Pretty cool...
Well I was a kid at the time but I would think that proximity and the fact that Canadians have no problem accepting American money at face value even when our dollar was higher than the US dollar for a few months way back when.
And if you ever go fishing with Bill Barilko and he isn't catching anything you get the added bonus of suggesting he might try putting some treble hooks on one of those Crocs to use it for a spoon lure.
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