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- From: rossw@sco.COM (Ross Wetmore)
- Newsgroups: can.politics
- Subject: Re: Thank You Mr. Clark was Re: The partition of Quebec (from an APEC pamphlet)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.143617.23508@sco.COM>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 14:36:17 GMT
- References: <13480@audetf> <schuck.721588780@sfu.ca> <13500@grayt>
- Sender: news@sco.COM (News administration)
- Organization: SCO Canada, Inc.
- Lines: 52
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- In article <13500@grayt> grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray) writes:
- >>
- >>>Boy, you really live in a hate-filled artificially created little
- >>>world of your own! Who will you hate after Quebec seccedes? Yourself?
- >>
- >>I don't hate Quebecers.
- >>
- >>I hate blackmailers.
- >
- >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"
-
- Not quite ... it was to provide a system of government which recognized
- and incorporated the fact of Canada being a diverse collection of peoples
- who choose to view themselves more from the persepective of local interests
- and communities than homogenous nationalism.
-
- >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.
-
- The fact has always been present. Recognition of it is starting to
- come about, as you so aptly demonstrate. Recognition of the problem that
- this presents, ie unorganized breakdown into feuding communities and the
- growth of all those negative attitudes and feelings that occur during such
- a process seems also to be occurring.
-
- >Welcome to the new Canada. Why does it remind me of Cyprus? Maybe it is the
- >absolute certainty with which these postings are filled. No one can
- >understand the other and the other must hold his position because of
- >hatred, stupidity or ignorance. Welcome to the new Canada.
- >
- >Thank you Mr. Clark
- >--
- >i.sinature
-
- I think this is what Clark and others were warning people about. Are
- you trying to shoot the messenger in your frustration with the message?
-
- But perhaps just as Meech seemed like not so bad a deal when Allaire came
- out, some of the suggestions that have been proposed over the last few
- years will be reinvented and refined, and will yet provide a flexible
- basis for governing (rather than dictating to) the Canadian mosaic.
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