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- From: grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray)
- Newsgroups: can.politics
- Subject: Re: Thank You Mr. Clark was Re: The partition of Quebec (from an APEC pamphlet)
- Message-ID: <13511@grayt>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 13:19:06 GMT
- References: <13500@grayt> <1992Nov14.012007.9802@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
- Lines: 54
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- In article <1992Nov14.012007.9802@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross) writes:
- >grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray) writes:
- >:
- >: The object of the Charlottetown Accord and the constitutional miasma that
- >: led up to it was to recognize diversity by producing a
- >: "Community of Communities"
- >:
- >: From the evidence of this thread (which is accurately summarized by
- >: the quotation above), the process has worked. Canada is now a
- >: "Community of Communities". Unfortunately there is nothing to hold
- >: these communities together but the mutual ignorance and suspicion generated by
- >: a process which pitted region against cultural group against national
- >: vision.
- >:
- >: Welcome to the new Canada. [...]
- >:
- >: Thank you Mr. Clark
- >
- >Don't be ridiculous. The failed accord didn't create this bigotry. It
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- I'll be as ridiculous as I please.
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- >has been fermenting in Canada for eons. There has been anti-Quebec
- >sentiments in TROC for decades, the aboriginals have suffered for
- >generations, and Trudeau fuelled western alienation and didn't give
- >a damn whether Quebec endorsed his ego-motivated repatriation.
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- Clark and Mulroney exploited the divisions in the country. Mulroney for
- his ego and as for Clark, well he proved his competence in 1979
- (counting over 100 is difficult isn't it). Now we see the result of their
- efforts. Did Clark succeed in producing his beloved "Community of
- Communities"? Yes he succeeded. We are now seeing the result.
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