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- From: jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
- Subject: Re: The Council of Canadians: 20-22 Nov, Ottawa
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.062302.5201@ee.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
- References: <721598499snx@dale.CAM.ORG>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:23:02 GMT
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- In article <721598499snx@dale.CAM.ORG> dale@dale.CAM.ORG (Dale Wharton) writes:
- >
- > ./\. Annual meeting
- > _|\| |/|_ Council of Canadians
- > A G E N D A F O R C H A N G E \ / 20-22 November 1992
- > >______< National Arts Centre
- > \ Ottawa
- >.
- > YOU ARE INVITED to four public sessions this year. One will take
- > place after work Friday, November 20, two on Saturday morning, and
- > one on Saturday night. Look for details of these events--to come.
- >.
- > The Council of Canadians is a national, nonpartisan, public interest
- > organization of 22,000 members. It is devoted to the enhancement
- > and preservation of Canadian sovereignty and political independence.
- > The COC monitors Canada's domestic and foreign policies, lobbies
- > decisionmakers to protect Canadian interests, promotes alternatives
- > for an independent Canada in a world community of nations.
-
- translation:
-
- panders to fear, economic ignorance, isolationism, and xenophobic
- nationalism.
-
- As Peter Cook chastises them:
-
- "For those nationalists and leftists who, for so many years, inveighed
- against foreign investment, there is a real monster to attack. It is
- debt ridden governments that put foreign providers of capital in charge
- of Canada. And there is a cause to promote. It is free trade which offers
- some chance of reducing our current account deficit."
-
- "How strange, then, that yesterday's nationalists and anti-foreign
- investment crusaders are today's apostles of big government and closed
- markets. What they advocate makes Canada dependent and weak."
-
- [Globe&Mail, 92.11.16]
- >.
- > The Council of Canadians (Join, eh?) * (613) 233-2773, fax 233-6776
- > 1006-251 Laurier Avenue West * Ottawa ON K1P 5J6
-
-
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