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On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:36:16 -0500, shawn
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nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
Why would anyone think this is a good idea. I can think of maybe two >occasions when it might have been useful. Once when I got laid off >unexpectedly and was distracted after that. The other team was when I
was going to visit friends and drove thru the night and ended up being
too tired to drive safely. Knew it when I started to go off the road
which immediately woke me up so I was able to stop safely and rest for
a bit.
Such a system would have prevented me from attending my aunt's wake in
the final stages of COVID - which was the last time I entered the US -
my father's home town is about a 1/2 hour drive from the Canadian
border and residents on both sides can see / hear the other's TV and
radio.
I haven't visited the US since Trump's re-election but that's not a
political gesture - just the poor exchange rate (which IS due to
Trump's tariffs) and the price of gas. If I had another family
gathering to attend I'd do it in a heartbeat but unless there's a good
reason to cross, then why? (There's a bookshop in Portland, OR which
my daughter swears by but that's a 7 hour car trip each way)
But no question Trump's tariffs HAVE tanked the Canadian dollar and
made US imports more expensive which probably isn't what he had in
mind if he had ANYTHING in mind other than "Screw America's allies
rather than her foes". No question a LOT of Canadians - if not a
majority - are convinced Trump likes Putin and Xi more than he likes
Carney.
Jan 20, 2029 is still too far away for me - long term the relationship
will repair but it will have cost us a significant part of our
standard of living which will not soon be forgotten nor who was
responsible for it.
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