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- From: roy@penguin.geog.ubc.ca (Roy Hourston)
- Subject: Re: the new Constitutional Deal
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.195242.6006@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:52:42 GMT
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- In article <ph3.711666051@unixg.ubc.ca>, ph3@unixg.ubc.ca (Michael Hamilton (phys 306)) writes:
-
- stuff about the use of the proposed distinct society clause to override
- the charter of rights in order to protect Quebecois culture....deleted
-
- The distinct society clause seems to have 2 different meanings. The politicians
- see it as a way of defining power, and the nationalist Quebecois non-politicians
- see it as representing Quebec culture. The rejection of the distinct society
- clause (by people like Clyde Wells) due to its implications of power was seen by
- some Quebecois as a rejection of their culture. To avoid such misunderstandings,
- why don't the politicians negotiate specifically defined powers, instead of
- fuzzy phrases? That way at least we would know WHY we are on a particular side
- of the fence.
-