This is great - we have 2 similar countries taking 100% different approaches over the next 4 years so this can serve as definitive experience on Conservative vs. Liberal government. My guess, the different will be as stark as North vs. South Korea. Canadians will struggle to keep the lights on.

"1) Canada is still a full democracy, and so not like the US at all."

I know you are proud of being a Canadian, but there is not need to lie about things like this. Your blackface wearing, closeted Fuhrer destroyed any sense of Democracy when he terrorized the truck protesters and threw people in jail for thought and speech crimes.

"2) Trump's end of the experiment will collapse within one year, and that is being generous.
#14 | Posted by Zed"

Good, get on record. I am clear on my predictions. When Canada starts to have rolling brownouts as it continues its decade+ of no growth, I think they will have trouble keeping the lights on.

"We already have that. It's called California vs Kansas.
#16 | Posted by SpeakSoftly"

California is what it is today due to massive government investment in the tech industry following WW2 and bipartisan leadership (Democrats were still sane) which built out great K-12 public schools, a great highway system, the UC and CSU system, water management systems and the canal to bring water to LA. California is slowly wasting away that legacy like any 3rd generation family squandering wealth. The K-12 schools are an embarrassment, the CSU and UC systems are getting watered down and tuition is skyrocketing (those used to be almost free), and the infrastructure from bridges and highways to airports is 3rd world now. California has the highest income inequality in the country and booming homeless population. Basically, everything the Dems claim to want goes in the exact opposite direction under liberal policies - California proves this.

You bitch about the 1% - the 1% on California own a higher percentage of wealth in CA than the 1% do in all of the US as a whole. Democrats control everything in the state - so, one can assume this is the intended result of their policies - enriching the 1%, eliminating the middle class, and having 50% of the state drug addled zombies.

You libs like to hold up California like you built it - you didn't. You are just the ones destroying it now.

"50%?!?
#19 | Posted by Danforth"

Seeing how you are claiming to understand percentages, how about you link to back up your claim that the .1% got 50% of the Trump tax cuts? Or, are you ready to admit that you lied? You ran away from the last discussion - cementing your -------- name. Ready to man up now?

"#22 | Posted by snoofy"

Great, so we agree the current incarnation of the Democrat party didn't build California. They are like a trust fund baby blowing the family inheritance. We are in agreement on that.

Your solution is higher taxes will result in higher wages and you blame Prop 13? That is pretty rich. The problem for California is that they have been ground zero for the illegal alien invasion since the 80's resulting in suppressed wages along with greens in the Democrat party chasing away all the manufacturing jobs. Take away massive credit expansion in California leading to soaring property prices and California has been in a decline for the last 30 years - since Governor Davis did his government worker handouts and the current Dem party fully embraced destroying the middle class. In any workforce, you will have unskilled, semi-skilled, and high skilled workers. When manufacturing disappears, so does the semi-skilled workforce which forms the basis for the US middle class.