Recent content by YZT580

Fully agree but to not have a single vessel ready to sail? Someone should be laying their head on a block for that one up to and including the minister.

there is no emoj for pathetic

And we are still drawing lines and making excuses.

except they are incapable of feeling shame. It is we that don't understand.

It is embarrassing when the whole team looks for asylum

Its not as it would appear. As the article points out they have transferred tons of technology to factories in Brazil whilst their own engineers have been attending courses in Sweden. The project is about much more than final assembly. Brazilian engineers and technicians have spent years...

ineffective, no/ We have the most effective opposition that we have had in decades. Carney has been forced to roll back several of his major issues i.e. carbon tax, oil development to mention two that were part of Pierre's platform. He is if nothing else, an opportunist but, to reply to...

right now this is the best thing that can happen. Carney has his majority and there is no need for an election. Government can continue unhindered. The libs have already based many of their actions on "conservative" concepts. If the cons can only concentrate on improving rather than opposing...

if they are like me, they only want the country to succeed. I am hoping against hope that are much more than promises coming as a result of Carney taking office. Discussions elsewhere seem to bear out that thought. The 50% for Carney isn't so much anti-Pierre as it is in favour of what he has...

The only poll that counts is on election day. That may sound trite but I am still waiting for the deliveries and not the speeches. As I wrote earlier, it has been a year and apart from travel miles and signed pieces of paper I haven't seen any deliverables actually in play. There are no...

That is no surprise when you consider where France got its recruits for the colonies. England sent Scots, Irish and criminals to staff their colonies. Likewise France sent those from the provinces and the prisons and the poor houses to Quebec. The french they spoke was a distant cousin of the...

makes more sense than a Hyundai factory for sure

Harper tried that and it was reversed at first opportunity. Will the current government attempt to legislate the same accountability? After all, he is a banker.....

bit of a change. We found that the French were generally hospitable except for those from Paris and they even looked down their noses at someone from Dijon

PROBLEM: Every single one of our allies are calling out for our resources and there is no way to satisfy their requests. We can sign all the agreements, shake all the hands we want on the tarmac, and say hello in 12 different languages but until there is a project on the books, with funding...