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- From: bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross)
- Subject: Re: Thank You Mr. Clark was Re: The partition of Quebec (from an APEC pamphlet)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.164440.10613@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Brock University
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- References: <13511@grayt>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:44:40 GMT
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- grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray) writes:
- : 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
- :
- : I'll be as ridiculous as I please.
-
- Of course you will.
-
- : >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.
- :
- : 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.
-
- Nah, they just took the reigns from Pierre, the real culprit.
- Giving Mulroney and Clark credit for the current situation is
- revisionist fantasy.
-
- : --
- : i.sinature
-
- Yep.
-
- --
- Brian Ross "How do we arrange lures in our tackle box?
- bross@sandcastle.cosc.brocku.ca From left to right, according to size and
- frequency of use." -- Anal-Retentive Chef.
-