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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/world/europe/monarchy-us-advantage.html Royalist political parties exist even in France today and around 17% of people in France today would support replacing the president with a monarch.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/bolton-putin-to-meet-in-the-kremlin-to-plan-trump-putin-summit/2018/06/27/64c190a4-79e6-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html?utm_term=.ed7b37ab1e39 Do I think Trump meeting with Putin is a good idea? Putting transport and summit costs aside, it could be...

"I am for a world calendar, as I am for a world currency for all peoples as well as an auxiliary language such as esperanto ". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AMahatma_Gandhi%2FArchive_3 He seems to have had an appreciation for administrative efficiency.

Trudeau to visit three cities on Canada Day, skip Parliament Hill festivities | CBC News How much of a carbon footprint will this leave? I wonder who leaves the largest carbon footprint between the PM and the average voter.

Harley-Davidson shifts some production overseas as EU tariff of $2,200 per bike kicks in | CBC News Looks like the US administration might want to start to consider bailouts and subsidies. Tariffs, bailouts, subsidies... so much for small government.

Jogger accidentally crosses U.S. border from B.C., gets detained for 2 weeks by authorities | CBC News Before investing in a wall on the Mexican border, maybe the US might want to invest in sidewalk sings on the Canadian border. Priorities I say.

If we're not going to fight a war over Crimea and if Russia won't release it over mere sanctions, then are we planning on just keeping the sanctions on Russia for the next 70 years or is it time to move on, drop the sanctions, and trade with Russia again? The whole point of the sanctions was to...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-gwVFfTCnM So the POTUS who's so worried about the US' balance of trade deficit has decided to spend like a drunken sailor to grow that deficit even more. Oh no, he's raising tariffs to prevent that. OK, so just growing public debt and inflation instead. I'm sure...

I say yes.

Though I think Trump acted foolishly in starting a trade war with Canada, I can see one possible plus coming out of it: a shaking of the foundations of Canada's agricultural, cultural, telecommunications, and other cartels. For example, should Trump raise tariffs on Canadian cars and other...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfj6MipMYaY It's interesting how even Farage himself laments the lack of a plan. That was obvious from the start: it was a choice either for or against the EU, which left it to anyone's guess what a vote against was for. One solution would be a Brexit vote take 2. this...

If I had my way, Parliament would adopt unilateral free trade with the world or at least incrementally advance towards ever freer trade compared to now. Instead, Trump has put Parliament in a difficult position. Every party has backed Trudeau's retaliatory tariffs against the US even though...

Toronto should start a new federal political party, the Party for Toronto Special Administrative Region (PTSAR), that would campaign to make Toronto administratively more autonomous from the rest of Canada with the Canadian Constitution recognizing this status. It could adopt its own Basic Law...

Italy won't ratify EU free-trade deal with Canada, says new farm minister | CBC News Looks like more bad news for Canada. It's time for Canada to unilaterally drop all intentional trade barriers.

I still believe in popular representation and human rights, but perhaps more narrowly than I used to. I still wouldn't consider myself a fascist, but I could consider myself democratically authoritarian. From my observation, people do seem to be questioning the excesses of liberty. How much of a...

We know Trump can hold a maximum of two terms according to the US Constitution. Should Canada choose to not retaliate against US tariffs and instead just emphasize the unfairness of Trump's tariffs against Canada, Canada may be able to win much more support in the US against Trump. In fact, even...

Why Trump's threats could give Canada a trade advantage it never sought: Don Pittis | CBC News Trump should keep up his anti-trade rhetoric against Canada. It seems to be helping us.

Ottawa makes plans to retaliate if U.S. follows through on auto tariff threat | CBC News It might be time for Canada to unilaterally bow out of NAFTA and the FTA, unilaterally drop all intentional trade barriers, and then start negotiations with other states to remove unintentional trade...

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Think of the money this would save on government civil servants flying around the world to negotiating trade deals all of which one simple vote in Parliament could eliminate. I suppose we could still respect UN sanctions, but unilaterally trade freely beyond that...