I'm so glad for my country. I feel lucky every day.

[applegrove]

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=IjwR0XU72SpK-E5gab9C4g

[pwb]

1. Yeah it's nice up there.

We are lucky to have you as a neighbor.

[applegrove]

3. You've been good to us. You fought the cold war while we

ignored it and went about our lives. That makes us siblings.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. I love living in Canada...

But not for the same reasons as you do.

[Sanity Claws]

4. I recognize Pierre Trudeau and Justin Trudeau

But who is the Canadian in the middle? Alas, I am south of your border but visited Canada often.

[applegrove]

5. Jean Chretien was PM in the 1990s. He had been a cabinet member

in the first Trudeau's government. He was an old time liberal with street smarts. He kept our banks regulated in the 1990s and early naughty so we didn't have a subprime meltdown. He kept us out of Iraq. A very good egg.

[Sanity Claws]

6. Another Quebecois?

I recognize the name Jean Chretien but did not recognize the photo.

[applegrove]

7. Yes. His nickname was "the little guy from Shawinigan". He had a language

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issue and was a killer with metaphors. Chretien was the Member of Parliament from Shawinigan for 35 years.



We've had liberal PMs who were anglophone and not from Quebec in between but they did not do so well. Trudeau Jr. was born in Ottawa, Ontario and lived there till he was a teen. Then he moved to Quebec. Then he lived in BC. Then he moved back to Quebec and ran.

Some housing activist protestor got right up and in Chretien's space one time on Parliament Hill. Chretien reacted by almost stragling the guy. He was told as a young man to stop fighting if he wanted to be a success in politics. During a speech at a Liberal convention he opened his speech by saying to the Conservative PM (who would be watching the Liberal Convention) "Brian, Brian, ..... do not adjust your tv" to rave applause. He was way smarter than you would assume by how he spoke. He was an expert at "form" instead of language. He was not like Trump in that he was not stupid or narcissistic.

[Sanity Claws]

8. Thanks for the history

[BlueWavePsych]

9. :)