Education is not an app. It’s not a franchise. It’s not a short-term scheme. It is a cross-generational investment in our collective future. It is a long term play to help young minds think critically and make their best possible contribution to our collective future. Education is a public service. It’s not a mechanism for making a buck.

Public life begins and ends in the middle of these two notions.

There are some things that will never change.

That doesn’t mean you should stop trying.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-leverage-tradewar-cost-economists-9.7324779

Leverage the things they say are the most important. Use US Treasury Bond holdings to send a message. Didn’t know we had an export tax on oil and natural gas once before. Could happen again. And Visas. All of these are excellent responses to American escalation that we all know is coming.

“…domination for the gratification of its present’s slapdash vanity.” Sadly, that sums it up nicely.

Here’s the whole article

Click to access Burning_Questions_Pembina_Institute_August_2026.pdf

Sadly, entirely predictable given who Canadian negotiators were dealing with. Retaliation is the only thing he will understand.