Canada - the 51st State

 

The notion of Canada becoming a 51st state has raised hackles.

The problem is that our economic advantage through association is great. However, the world according to the USNational interests is a very cruel place filled with war, destruction and gross inequities.

Mind you we already have inequity in Canada, lack of housing, lack of food security, lack of fresh water on indian reserves, lack of income distribution its not all roses and maple syrup.

The notion of economic union is also a non starter given the 44 Trillion  USD debt  ( thats a Gazzilion DOLLARS CAD)

It is a strange arrangement. We need so much from the USA including sunny winters.  The states need our resources.
The US has 4 lanes coming to the border. Perhaps they will just take what they need while our fractious parliamentarians dither.

New Bridge at Aviation Parkway

 

The Federal government, currently in disarray has once again announced a new interprovincial bridge.

Much to the chagrin of Overbrook residents of Manor Park this project is much needed and in my opinion will ultimately proceed.

For some, this proposal keeps coming back like a bad rash.

Residents complain of pollution transfer but people are getting killed and injured at the corner of King Edward and Rideau.

Think!

"About 3,500 trucks cross the Ottawa River on a typical weekday, according to the National Capital Commission's interprovincial truck survey released this year. About 72 per cent use the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge, which dumps traffic into Lowertown."

Get those semis out of downtown, support the bridge and find a way to make this project work for Ottawa by getting ahead of the design issues especially at the Montreal Road, Aviation Parkway intersection.

STEPHANIE Plante, councillor has said, ""We know that it is unacceptable to have truck traffic going down one of the most low-income and racialized communities of Ottawa's downtown core" 

Read my previous article from 2019

https://peterkarwacki.blogspot.com/2019/03/tunnels-and-bridges-pas-de-problem.html?m=0

Kettle Island bridge

Related Links

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7412912

https://www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/comments/1ebmsl/ncc_suggests_kettle_island_for_new_bridge/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/kettle-island-seen-as-best-interprovincial-bridge-option-1.1358318

Kettle Island is the third-largest island in the Ottawa River, after Île aux Allumettes and Grand-Calumet. NCC acquired 98 per cent of the island's surface"

Cop 24 - committee of the parties

  Much is discussed and lamented about climate change.

The claim is that fossil fuels are the source of CO2 that is heating the planet.

Little is mentioned, or if mentioned derided, of the suppression of technolgy that would obviate the use of fossil fuels. 

Why? $$$$.  If you were invested in oil, XON, CHX you would want every drop of oil to be extracted, drill baby drill, before publicizing other sources of power.

The recent congressional hearing in the US confirmed the existance of unexplained aerial phenomena uap's.

This got little coverage in the media but with youtube, x, meta and other social media it is easily found.

Most are more concerned about daily life, hockey or Taylor Swift.

Still it is no longer possible to ignore the fact that uap exist and that these use an energy source that makes these cop discussions irrelevant.

What is the sigificance to municipal politics?

Our current leaders are simply not up to the challenge of dealing with the existence of such technology.

In effect they are stuck in old ideas and old ways...they do not know what a real emergency looks like. 

There is more evidence as to the exixtence of uaps and their universal energy source than there is evidence of human induced climate change.

The biggest impact on the city of Ottawa will be the ultimate reveal, possibly in the next few years, of the new reality that we are not alone in the universe and that our fixation on power and money has been made irrelevant.

How to be a politician

 

You have to be able see... what can be!

Unburdened by what has been!

Of course you also have to thank a union memba!

In the upcoming municipal election one of the big issues is probably unimportant because the incumbents, all of them, who usually win, no matter how bad they are, will focus on issues that are not even discussed at the time of the election.

People will look at the lawn signs and say "oh yeah, they did well enough".

Finally when the taxes go up and people really start feeling the effects of taxation, stagnation, inflation and humiliation will finally make a change. That time is not now.

How to shake things up at city hall

When I ran... I described this as "asking tough questions"

According to Ron Benn, in his Bulldog polemic challenge staff. 

1. Challenge them for incomplete reports. 

2. Challenge them for leading council by the nose to the staff recommendation. 

3. Challenge staff for not thinking outside the box. 

4. Challenge staff for not being open to outside input. 

 Do not fear being perceived to be not supportive of staff. Of being perceived as challenging staff to do better. Understanding of the role... Oversight of staff. 

 Well done Ron!

Ottawa City Councillors need help

Councillors appear overwhelmed No mere mortal city councillor is up to the challenge of absorbing every brief nor every delegation. Nor can they sit through every mind numbing meeting. Lately we have seen how councillors are crushed by the weight of material…and the result? Bad decisions are made. They need help. Fortunately there is help available. The time has come to introduce artificial intelligence into the management of the city’s $6 billion cad budget. An AI replete with programmed morals, values, ethics and all the source data can help make decisions at light speed, free of bias or fatigue. You think this is impossible? It was actually done in Chile 50 years ago! The system architect was British operations research scientist Stafford Beer called Project Cybersyn, (1971 to 1973) Salvador Allende implemented it as a decision support system aiding in the management of the economy. THIS WAS LONG BEFORE GPT CHATBOT. After the CIA orchestrated military coup on September 11, 1973, the project was abandoned, and the operations room was destroyed. Allende was assasinated. However, while operational, information from the field would be fed into MODELS. Managers could see relevant economic data, formulate feasible responses to emergencies, and transmit advice and directives to enterprises and factories. The idea is to use AI to augment not substitute decisions...free of management or political bias and based on truth, justice and the Canadian way. No decision would be made without the recommendation from the city's A I advisor.

CRUX: Why did Rawlson King Resign from the Police Services Board... during the Trucker Convoy?

During the last municipal election I debated with Rawlson King, Councilor. At this point in the debate we had Mr. King saying how pleased to have been on the Police Services Board....when I called him out on it. 

He was 'pleased' to be on the board, lauded his own accomplishments and then quit for political grandstanding purposes.  

I told him and Rogers viewers that bothered to watch the debate that was the reason I decided to run against him.

You decide for yourself.  By the way, Rogers has removed this video from their library.

To save you time: this is what King said: