It has been a traumatic last couple days for ‘Brockers’ as well as recently stunned ‘US persons’ who have just had their ‘OMG moment’. This is just the tip of the iceburg. We sit at a precipice looking down, and looking back. Many have not yet arrived at the point some of us are at. The current Canadian government helped create the precipice. They had a choice; they made the wrong one. We warned them; they didn’t listen.
My twenty-one year old daughter instantly grasps the concept of why you do not sacrifice a minority of people for a majority when you have a CHOICE to do otherwise. She used the example of a bus (yes a bus) traveling down the road towards a group of five people. She asked me, “if you had the power to grab the bus and throw it in another direction directly in the path of one person, would you do it?” We both agreed that the answer in this case is ‘Yes’, and yet this is the supposed argument our government is using to justify its agreement with the USA to implement FATCA. My twenty-one year old daughter and I intuitively get that the two situations are not the same. Apparently our Conservative government does not.
One of the cool things about Brock for me, has been the opportunity to correspond with, and meet in person, many intelligent, kind, moral people, and if it wasn’t for FATCA, I would never have had the opportunity to make my life a lot richer despite the pain of being persecuted for being born in the wrong country.
