QuoteEver since the U.S. presidential election, Ed Dahlberg has pretty much had a smile on his face.



Dahlberg brokers the sale of private jets, and already he's seeing interest pick up and used-aircraft prices starting to firm up. The sale of a single-engine turboprop aircraft that he recently handled went for about 5% more than anticipated.



"My phone is ringing off the hook" from people interested in buying used jets, said Dahlberg, president of Emerald Aviation Inc. in Manassas, Va. "Just the business climate feels like it's getting better."



The era of Donald Trump, a man long associated with conspicuous consumption, figures to be good to a whole range of luxury-goods industries. But perhaps nowhere is that excitement greater than in the private-aircraft business.



Not only is Trump, whose personal Boeing 757 became an iconic campaign image, seen as someone who'll be an advocate for the industry but he replaces a president who so often criticized private-air travel that he turned it into a taboo symbol of inequality and helped prolong a sales slump of almost a decade.

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QuoteA Clinton win virtually guaranteed that one big loser in the 2016 election would have been us. Had she been allowed to govern as she was resolved to, Canada would have paid the price for as long as eight more difficult years — probably more than they will under even a loose-cannon amateur like Trump. A president Hillary Clinton would have implemented policies that would have been sure to drag down the economic growth of an economy upon which Canada overwhelmingly relies for its own.



She has been unapologetic about her plan to increase taxes, promising to raise the estate tax and capital gains taxes (where she planned to hike the top rate from 23.8 to 43.4 per cent) and she had proposed to tax high-frequency stock-market trades. She had said she was open even to new payroll taxes, which would have injured American competitiveness yet further. And her campaign said she would "take a look at" a carbon tax, if Congress had proposed one. Congress, still firmly in the hands of the Republicans, will now entertain no such thing.



Trump had expressed unqualified support for importing Canadian energy in general, and the Keystone XL pipeline in particular. Clinton, on the other hand, once a staunch Keystone backer, had chosen to flip and turn against it, as a way to appease the most left-wing Democrats. Canadians, and struggling Albertans especially, can renew their hopes that we might soon be sending up to a million more barrels of our oil every day to American refineries.



Just as importantly for Canada's exporters, Trump has promised to slash U.S. federal corporate income taxes — those combined top marginal corporate rates are currently some of the highest in the world — from 35 per cent to 15 per cent. Eager to lure home the US$2.4 trillion of American corporate profits sitting idle offshore, Trump has shrewdly promised a one-time, low tax rate of 10 per cent that, if enacted, will encourage major corporations to repatriate their cash and reinvest it back in the U.S., a massive private stimulus program that will do much to spur demand for Canadian exports.

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Quote from: "Phagdish Hardy"We effeminate, white, Vancouver, homo, idiots want to keep Canada the only major reserves of crude on the planet without access to tide water and international markets. The infrastructure it needs would be a multi-billion dollar stimulus and it would ensure higher prices for producers and halt industry pay cuts, but it may upset OPEC and California billionaires. Carbon taxes are another good way to give us a competitive disadvantage. They won't affect climate change either, but if it's bad for Canadian workers, we support it.

Do you enjoy this Shen Li?

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Quote from: "RW"Start the night with?  Pfffft!



I'm a lover when I drink, not a fighter.  And I can hold my booze :P



I'm having a great time with my bestie at the hot springs.  There are A LOT of men around though.  There's something that makes you feel extra good when you get hit on while wearing a bathing suit :)



Downside though - no internet.  We have to go to a coffee shop to write anyone.  Phooey!

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And this johnny is RDL's former boyfriend? Is that why he seems so snotty?

That is the asshole bruce, a supreme jackass. It could also be SMP or mel. They all have growing up to do.

I thought they were all the same person. ac_biggrin

They are quite different. Bruce is indeed an asshole with a crush on RW. Mel is a lush. SMP is deranged to the extreme. Should not be allowed to post anywhere.

Thanks for clearing that up. ac_sure

QuoteToday I am going to explain why you, as a Canadian citizen, are not an energy-consuming glutton who is helping to burn up the planet by greedily consuming fossil fuels.



In fact, as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions linked to climate change go, Canada is small potatoes.



According to the World Research Institute, 2011, China is the world's largest energy-related emitter of greenhouse gases at 10,552 megatonnes annually. (A megatonne, or Mt, represents one million tonnes.)



China is followed by the U.S. at 6,550 Mt.



India is third at 2,486 Mt; Russia fourth at 2,374 Mt; Japan fifth at 1,307 Mt; Brazil sixth at 1,131 Mt; Germany seventh at 882 Mt; and Indonesia eighth at 834 Mt.



Canada is ninth at 716 Mt. (As of 2013, our emissions were 726 Mt which doesn't affect the rankings.)



Canada legally withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol to reduce GHG emissions, which expired in 2012, at the end of 2011.



At that time, Prime Minister Stephen Harper cited its fundamental unfairness to our country.



While we were required by Kyoto (thanks to former PM Jean Chretien, who ratified it) to reduce our emissions under the United Nations treaty to an average of 6% below 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012, China, the U.S., India and Russia -- the world's top four emitters -- were not required to reduce their emissions by a single tonne.



Nor was Brazil, the sixth largest emitter, or Indonesia, the eighth largest emitter.



Despite the fact that when the Liberals lost power under Paul Martin in 2006 Canada was 30% over its Kyoto target, our emissions since 2006 as a share of global emissions -- 43,372 Mt in 2011 -- have been steadily dropping.



In 2005, Canada was responsible for 2.1% of global emissions.



By 2011, it was 1.6%, because we have been reducing the growth rate of our emissions faster than the rest of the world.



So-called environmentalists and Canada's opposition parties ignore these figures, which tell the true state of Canada's contribution to global GHG emissions.



Contrary to myths perpetuated by U.S. President Barack Obama's billionaire political pals, oil extracted from Canada's oilsands is not the "dirtiest on earth."



The dirtiest oil on earth comes from Nigeria. The dirtiest oil in North America comes from California.



In reality, the biggest problem today when it comes to global GHG emissions is burning coal to generate electricity.



China gets 80% of its electricity from coal, India 70%, the U.S. almost 40%. In Canada, it's less than 11%.



Again, those who falsely smear Canada as the world's leading climate ogre, never cite these facts.



Instead they focus on one misleading fact, without providing any context, which is that Canadians are among the largest emitters of greenhouse gases per capita on earth.



The context which they never mention is that Canada is the second largest and second coldest country on earth, with one of the lowest population densities on earth -- 230th out of 244 sovereign states and dependent territories.



That, along with the fact we are an oil and natural gas producing and exporting country, is what drives up our per capita emissions.



That is, we use them out of necessity, not because everyone in Canada is conspiring to waste energy.



Those who suggest otherwise should be ashamed of themselves.

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