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- From: ddjohnson@galaxy.gov.bc.ca
- Newsgroups: can.politics
- Subject: Council of Canadians
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.193801.1257@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 19:38:00 -0800
- Organization: BC Systems Corporation
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- In 1985 that old Tory war horse Dalton Camp bet Mel Hurtig a bottle
- of Scotch that Mel's recently launched group, the Council of Canadians,
- wouldn't last ten weeks. Seven years later, Mel is still waiting for Camp to
- pay up!
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- The Council of Canadians has been fighting to preserve Canadian sovereignty
- ever since. In general terms, this can be conceptualised as a fight against
- the BFTA and, currently, NAFTA. It was the (then) proposed BFTA that
- Hurtig organised against. Mel is currently the honourary Chairperson;
- Maude Barlow is the Chair.
-
- We are an apolitical and non-profit (but not tax creditable) organisation.
- We are dedicated to the defeat of the Mulroney government, not because they are
- Conservatives, but because Mr. Mulroney sold Canada out to the USA.
-
- "Free trade affects Canadian sovereignty, and we will have none of it,
- not during leadership campaigns or at any other time".
- -Brian Mulroney, Federal Progressive Conservative Leadership Candidate, 1983.
-
- Wow! Brian lied eh?
-
- DDJ
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- Doug Johnson "You never can predict the weather."
- Smithers, British Columbia Q, Star Trek, TNG. 1992.
- CANADA
-