I felt that way too. It would be optimal. A Canadian mixed-market opportunity, of free markets where it can and socialized industry where it must. We could start this path any time we wanted. Crown Corporations and investment are a matter of will, not finance.

The real problem that I see are the geopolitics of power. The world's re-armament is a gross malallocation of unsustainable resources at the worst possible time. But being ruled by the worst of humanity isn't doing anyone any favours either, so here we are.