to have your hands on the reigns of the media whereby you can create all manner of optimism/pessimism.....controversy/solidarity and likewise have the means to make things happen......and know about when it is going to happen while certain undervalued financial instruments sit waiting to be harvested....if you know what I mean.

"By contrast, New Democrats have a plan. We have a vision for the north—one that includes economic prosperity for everyone living in the north, where good-paying jobs are plentiful, where First Nations communities are respected partners in development, and where environmental interests are balanced with the need for economic prosperity."

What a colossal yawn.....and I wait with my dance dress on at the front door for the NDPs to show me a good time....or the conservatives....or the liberals or the green party or the sisters of the blessed tavern. Bottom line....the goods are there....they're worth a lot of pesos....everybody's fighting over it on the political level trying to gain ground, the gov't, the FNs, the bashers, the companies..... all of them investors ultimately. The economy is down because people are stupid and they allowed themselves to be seduced as they became increasingly greedy. They're still greedy and they still want things and always will. We'll continue to need infrastructure, buildings, power, yada yada. All things we experience in our culture are manmade including this blanket of wool they call the debt and this installed austerity I'm/we're supposed to suck up (like I had anything to do with it) as the wealthy play a game they never lose.

We wait to see where it will all land but the Yanks and the Yuan have settled in for the future......and the future is advancing.