Christmas Bells

PEI lacks somethings needed to be as good as Toronto or Montreal in terms of economy and culture. Wealth. I was thinking about Christmas handbells being played at a church service in Cobourg, Ontario. When I say Toronto or Montreal I guess I also mean that entire region around each, Cobourg being an hour from Toronto. It is about the size if Charlottetown but so much different. Anyway, I always wonder if someone could ever name that thing needed to form the covalent bond of skilled people (contingents of who want to live, work and succeed in PEI), tools, and God knows what to propel the island like Ireland in the last ten years into wealth.

Back to the hand bell concert. I think in Ontario somebody must own and care for that collection of bells, each one tuned to different notes and probably silver or at least some kind of quality metal.

It struck me PEI lacks quality metal, metaphorically.

What I mean by that is square brick long term thinking, a vision beyond government as sugar daddy, and discriminating tastes beyond the Presidents Choice product line.

Here is where I confess a certain love for high gas prices. They force, unfortunately at the expense of the working poor, change. I want $5 a gallon, $2 a litre gas for about ten years or permanently. Highway deaths (3000+ per month in US) would fall, neighbourhoods would flourish, and we'd probably think our way right back to the same cost per mile anyway using innovations like Toyotas and obsoleting Hummers.

If farmland in PEI was converted to residential land and settled by immigrants from far and away what would be lost? Other than a tiny fraction of North American potato crop.