text: You mean 44 years of prosperity. Retirement in the bank at 51, two kids through university and now working professionals with their own homes, healthy grandchildren, supporting elderly MIL and we used to donate rather generously to a few chosen charities but since the NDP (I am now unemployed...business is not really interested in growing right now?) we have rolled that back to under $500/year.
  
  But please do not worry for us here in the west. 2019 is coming and I hope we will remember our eastern "friends". I know I will....