@MorganLaidler What’s not to like? In a government regulated, protected environment, children can be socialized and taught English and/or French and learn Canadian values while receiving education and gaining useful skills. Oops. Wait. Sorry. That was the old residential school promo.
@Tablesalt13 He doesn’t want us. He wants control of the trade routes starting with Panama and then the Northwest Passage through Canadian waters with Greenland on one end and Alaska on the other for security.
@TaraBull808 Many latchkey children, raised in the 70s and 80s by parents who had little time for them, received the message that they were a burden. When they became adults, they still believed it. They had fewer or no children, and even fewer babies have been born to the next generation(s).
@em_templin1 I could see candlelight flicker on her high white forehead, her pale eyes lower when a man entered the room, or the pen in her hand hover over a fresh sheet of parchment, but I could not bring the pieces of her together. Her image remained irretrievably broken.