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   AT>I understand that it's more difficult and less convenient for illegal   
   immigra   
     > to get into Canada, and that fewer of them will do it, but it only took 19   
   p   
     >le to pull off the September 11 (2001) terror attacks in the USA.   
      
   Yes, granted a carefully planned attack could happen. Quite a few people   
   could fly in as tourists and just disappear and work their was across   
   the border.   
      
   RM> A lot of Americans probably wouldn't guess that Canada is a much more   
   RM> popular choice to move to. According to the NY Post, Canada is the   
   RM> most popular in the world and the USA didn't make the top 10.   
      
   AT>I believe it. Canada is under-rated. I enjoy it every time I go.   
      
   That's nice to hear. I have some relatives in the USA and I have a   
   times spent up to 6 months at a time down there and I also enjoyed   
   my time and the people I met down there.   
      
   AT>Here in the parties are constantly accusing one another of having "plans to   
   e   
     >Medicare and/or Social Security" which are 2 programs that most of our   
   retire   
     >rely on. It's never happened though, and it's been a traditional scare   
   tactic   
     >r decades.   
      
   Plus on both sides, seniors usually have a lot more spare time to vote,   
   and there are more of us all the time since most people live a lot   
   longer than we used to. My parents both lived into their 90's and I am   
   70 at the moment but my doctor says that if I were 50 and in my   
   condition, she'd consider me to be in very good health.   
      
   RM> As to your question, I generally lean towards the Liberals than the   
   RM> Conservatives like Ford, but he coped well and took fairly good   
   RM> care of the people through the Covid crisis, and actually instigated   
   RM> some things like grants for low income people reducing the cost they   
   RM> pay for electricity   
      
   AT>That sounds like excellent work that Ford has done. Did you actually see   
   your   
     >ectric bill go down?   
      
   It is actually a line right on the electricity bill. There are also   
   Provincial plans that do the same thing. They want people to live in   
   the North and they know that we have to heat homes in colder weather   
   and drive further to get anywhere (my 50 mile round trip for groceries)   
   so they do things to lower costs a bit. I save about $1000 a year on   
   electricity due to those two grants, about equally split between them   
   in recent heavy use months.   
      
   AT>Canada has recently imposed a 25% tariff on electric. My electric company   
   (NY   
     >) is impacted. But my bill didn't go up 25%; it went up about 100%. Look at   
   t   
     > difference in percentages. I can not blame Trump nor Canada for this.   
   There'   
     >omething else in play, but the Democrats in my state want people to believe   
   t   
     > this is all because of Trump (nope!)   
      
   If you really want to get mad.. Ford put that 25% on only for a couple   
   of days and then your gov't had a meltdown and insisted on a meeting   
   to disuss things last week, so it was taken off again for now.   
   I'm sure I would have heard on the news if it were back on.   
      
   RM> Ford's a funny guy.. He made a lot of points in his first election   
   RM> by promissing to lower the price of beer so a lot of people thought   
   RM> he was a bit of a buffoon but, when serious stuff started happening   
   RM> like Covid, he handled it better than most of the rest of the country.   
      
   AT>He sounds great to me. I want him to run my state!   
      
   There are some complaints from some groups but I think, for a conservative   
   he's not been all that bad. I know my Niece, who is a teacher, isn't   
   too thrilled about some of the stuff he's done.   
      
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