zang
Senior Member
Long before he kidnapped a bureaucrat, Lutczyk had a reputation for oddity. He served as a city and regional councillor on and off for 10 years in 1994-2010, earning headlines for unusual ideas, like annexing the Turks and Caicos Islands, and erratic behaviour, including a long, quixotic battle over the name of the local university.
The man's obviously mentally ill, but this is the prime example they use to defend that argument? Canada's been in talks at the federal level with the Turks and Caicos on and off for decades about doing exactly that. Personally, I love the idea. We (hopefully) get to bring the standard of living up of the country, and in return get a vacation spot that doesn't come with the heavy taxation and tariffs of international travel and a chance to break the idiotic idea that Canada's the place for skiing and parkas in the summer. That's not to mention a national source for tropical fruit and sugar production that doesn't require import fees.
Addendum: apparently talks of this started with Robert Borden in 1917; so this has been going on for nearly a century.
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