Climate Change:

Apparently Climate Change was one of the items on Justin Trudeau's  G-7 agenda.

It wouldn't hurt for people to understand and accept that climate change is an ongoing planetary process, just as it has been for the life of this planet.

It also wouldn't hurt for us to understand that we human beings are not to blame for it. It will happen regardless of what we do or not do.

We ought to also understand that initiatives like the Paris Accord and the G-7 sessions on climate change are strictly political posturing for reasons only some political types can understand. 

The logic behind it escapes me, but maybe Al Gore can tell us more.

A Mature View:

Does a study on women's equality and another on climate change have any room at a G7 international conference?

Trudeau seems to think so.

U.S. president Donald Trump, on the other hand, is reported to have made it a point to arrive late for one session and leave early when the other came up.

It would seem that Trump thought there were more important things to discuss at a conference of leaders of the most important economies on the planet. 

He's right. For him, political posturing was less important than actually getting things done.

Politics Made Easy:

In any election, there are only two political choices.

Some of us vote for an economy that will improve our chances for a productive lifestyle.

This means an economic plan that will encourage potential investors to take a chance. New investment should result in more and better jobs for people looking for work.

But not everyone is looking for work. Some voters look for politicians who promise the most freebies. 

Politicians offering the most freebies are hoping to offer what they can extract from the pockets of those people who get up and go to work in the morning.

Voting for such politicians is like handing them free access to your credit cards and saying, "Go ahead. I'm sure you can spend my money better than I can."

Such people are unlikely to vote for Doug Ford.

Political Foul-ups:

The Millennials in Ontario wouldn't remember what some previous administrations did to this province, but a quick lesson could be had simply by Googling Eleanor Clitheroe, the financial whiz kid who ran Hydro One.

Ontario's working folk are still paying for all those $25,000 per month retirement funds and golden parachutes.

If I remember correctly, it was the Ernie Eves administration that was elected to exorcise this gang who ran Hydro One like Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

Apart from Clitheroe picking up an armload of legal credits from various schools around the province, apparently what qualified her to run Hydro One was her experience with the Bob Rae NDP administration back in '91.