Quote:As President  Chloe Thibadeau, told you 650 some years ago, the perception throughout Terra is that the finest cuisine in all Terra is Canrillaise cuisine. Further Canerillaise truffles and wine are part of that cuisine, an integral part that is inferior without them.  That is the perception and it is really good for our export market.
 
With cheese we face a somewhat different marketing problem. Really really good hard yellow rindless cheese is made elsewhere, in Artania in point of fact, and made very very well. Moreover, Terra loves cheese in pizzas, in cheese burgers, in macaroni and cheese and as an additive to everything from ham and cheese to chili cheese corn and fondu.
 
Where we may be able to secure a niche is in the upscale hors d’oeuvres market. For that, what people really want is soft cheese held together with a rind.  And that is where Canrille excels, that is where Kanjor excels and that is where the villages around Mavigny right here in Martois excel.
 
Well, how can the government help.  Two main ways.  We will run a Terra wide promotional campaign as we did with pinot noir and black truffles. Second, the Ministries of Agriculture and of Trade  have loans for expansion and in some cases grants.
 
How can the Province of Martois help? By setting up an Appellation d’Origine Controlle (AOC) telling all Terra what is great cheese and what is good but less expensive.  Same sort of thing we do with wine. The other Provincess can use Martois as a model and prototype.
 
This will work. It worked 650 years ago when President Thibadeau initiated it and it will work now. Our economy is growing and Martois agriculture can be at the heart of the growth.

Quote:The short answer to your question is “sort of.” There are two issues involved.  The current government will technically remain in the Union of Canrille in order to maintain certain organizational assets and benefits that go with membership therein. The best known is three of the five extant Lourennais built fleets are under our operational control since we have the ranking flag officer assigned to the Union of Canrille’s Imperial Command Headquarters  in Atyr.
 
There are others.  The normal  maintenance of these fleets comes not from the Defense budget but interest on the funds held by the Bank of Canrille as an arm of the Union of Canrille which we operate by virtue of providing the top management thereto. Further, the satellite defense system protecting us is operated by Imperial Command Headquarters.
 
Membership in the Union of Canrille gives members access to direct purchases of certain military equipment not otherwise available.
 
The technological maintenance, replacement and repair of that satellite system is handled by a company organized under the laws of Rildanor, L’Etoile Canrille, which is the repository of that Lourennais technology and the Lourennais Soteira  defensive radar technology which came our way by vitue of the Union of Canrille.  Our Kanjorean subsidiary of L’Etoile Canrille is currently providing that support for satellite defense and outfitting much of the National Navy and the 5th Imperial Fleet with Soteira radar.
 
So we are operating some things by virtue of our membership in the Union of Canrille and plan to continue to do so. The real question is whether to consolidate all aspects under The Defense Ministry or continue to have responsibility in various ministries and the Governor General.
 
We will of course not try to act like we have the military power the Union of Canrille once had. In point of fact, on the whole we are reverting to our policy of respecting sovereignty and live and let live outside of a few pariahs. We are open to humanitarian projects.
 
As to the other issue, Canraillaise nations were our main trading partners and with their growing isolation the income from those partners is drying up.  They were our most important but not our only partners. We have ongoing contractual relations with nations in Majatra, Seleya, Artania and Dovani.
 
So it is very much in our interest to cease our focus on Canrille and develop other trading partners.

Quote:FC has lost its majority which really is no surprise, but since it has the most seats I will ask its party leader to try and form a government.  FC’s current Premier, Fabrice Courbet, is stepping aside and party leadership is meeting to determine a successor.
 
It is expected FC will approach UHD which like PSD is much less internationalist than FC. I can tell you from initial talks both are interested in keeping culture war issues to at a minimum and UHD is likely to want the Interior Ministry for its leader, Marcel Malateste, and for there to be an understanding involvement in military misadventures abroad unless attacked could well lead to dissolution of the coalition.
 
The PSD is less likely to be a partner of FC because it is seriously against cooperation with monarchies, and most of our trading partners are just that. 

But selection of a new FC premier candidate is the first task in the process.

 

Quote:No. Not all.  I can of course not speak for the UHD but I can speak for the APC in Kanjor.  The current ongoing situation is the Federation Canrille (FC) and the APC in Kanjor have a long ago negotiated arrangement whereby the APC can worship in our facilities, operate schools where prayer led by staff is permitted including a university, and have three religious orders in addition to the priesthood. We can not be involved in politics which is to say priests, nuns and monks and the APC itself may not endorse or support political candidates, parties or specific pieces of legislation and may not contribute funds for them or other political activity or be members or officers of a party or hold political office.
 
We can vote, express our opinion of and what we consider the Lord’s view of personal conduct and the ills of Terra and privately express our opinions. The contact point for church – state relations is the Premier’s Office and the office of the Archdiocese.
 
Why do we not want a state church or influence in politics?  First, quite a few citizens still consider themselves Hosian and a majority of those consider themselves APC. On the other hand, while most citizens have no objection to Hosians, praying, worshipping and preaching to each other, almost no citizens are willing for the APC or any other religious body to have any official control or influence upon them.
 
So we are quite content with the current law and our current arrangement.

Quote:We believe FC would not abandon the arrangement to be in a coalition with SPD. It has worked well for a  long time even when a brief foreign imposed government claimed some  Hosian sect was involved in terrorism. 
 
But what if SPD gets a majority? We hope we could convince them the current arrangement is a good one and believe we could.

Quote:Of course. The church position is not monolithic and placidly accepted but a balancing act akin to juggling. Many years ago the Ordo Clericorum Regulularium Congregationis Fratum Eliae, generally called Eliasits, was created by an Arch Patriarch hoping to perpetuate the Church Militant and Rampant.  The Curia built for their training and indoctrination the Institute for Higher Studies in Mavigny.  My predecessor cooperated with that effort and the Eliasit movement and even supported election of an Eliasit Arch Patriarch.
 
Generally speaking, the Eliasits in Kanjor believe the APC should dominate politics everywhere and are not afraid to tell me or each other so. But, as you can imagine, the movement proved transient in Terra generally, and for hundreds of years neither the Eliasit Order in Kanjor nor its Institute have received one sou from the Curia or anybody else.  Except the APC in Kanjor.
 
Well, you might very well say, the APC in Kanjor barely receives contributions enough to operate itself; how can that make any difference? During the period of cooperation with the two Eliasit arch Patriarchs, we received two benefits.  First, the Archbishop, currently me, entirely controls the APC in Kanjor including appointment of all bishops. Second, and more to the point, my predecessor arranged for the Arch Patriarch to recognize throughout Terra the Contemplative Monastic Order of Occidentalium whose First Master would be officially recognized after election by its abbots and priors by the Archbishop of Atyr.
 
The Contemplative Monastic Order of Occidentalium has always been extremely well funded from its initial endowment and its agricultural and medicinal activity as well as very successful investments.  It is their funds that allow the APC to operate schools in Marois and Numineux Provinces and a few elsewhere and operate the Institute of Higher Studies which is open to non Eliasit students but where virtually all Eliasits are trained.
 
The Institure of Higher Studies is recognized throughout Kanjor as having the best Mathematics and Education departments in our nation. Most Eliasit graduates teach in our APC schools although some teach at the Institute, serve in other APC functions or teach in other institutions.
 
So to answer your question, most employed Eliasits actually are paid by funds provided by the Occidentalium Order which gratefully follows the arrangement we have with the government.  The Eliasits certainly  may grumble and wish it was otherwise.  On the whole we see them as excellent teachers.  Particularly in math.

Quote:Royaume Uni de Kanjor is  a monarchy and wants to be identified as such. Further my government wants to work in Terra wide affairs with the monarchies which are members.

Quote:Although the PSD came close to a majority running on less foreign entanglements and more government benefits, it missed by a few votes. My Administration, a coalition of FC and UHD, has been having internal discussions and concluded the best course was not to try and stay in office despite public rejection but to inform the Governor General we favored her asking the PSD to try and form  a governing coalition.
 
The FC terms to join such a  government would probably center around protecting the status quo of church and state and no wholesale withdrawal from treaties and international agreements.  It is quite possible the PSD may find that the UHD can offer a better deal.

Quote:So far so good. The Gendarmes are simply maintaining a perimeter, and the demonstrators have not turned into vandals or rioters as yet, and since they are on the verge of getting what they want, we feel like forceful dispersal will not be necessary.  The Silliers National Gendarme Rapid Response Force is in position if circumstances change.
 
I have personally informed the Parti Social - Democrate (PSD) Leader, Bruno LeFebvre, that Premier Marvaux has asked Governor General Barrineau to ask him to form a government so we are expecting tensions to ease very shortly.

Quote:We would need some sort of assurances wholesale industrial nationalization does not occur.