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- From: myhui@bnr.ca (Michael Hui)
- Subject: Re: Reform Party vs Quebec (was Reform Party)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.040020.4159@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Sender: news@bmerh85.bnr.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa, Canada
- References: <1992Nov23.005655.8997@ee.ubc.ca> <aidler.722534187@sanjuan> <1992Nov23.144230.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 04:00:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.144230.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> 4224_5201@uwovax.uwo.ca (John LaRocque) writes:
- >The Party... the Party.... that is the problem with this organization. They
- >operate just like the others, and demand the same loyalty. When I hear the
- >words "Party" I immediately think of Stalin, Hitler and all those other guys
- >pushing their platform and claiming the people are on their side. Do you know
- >what. It is all pollitical b*s*.
-
- Towards his later years, Mao's Chinese Communist Party did the same thing.
- They still do, actually. :-(
-
- Ask not what the party can do for your country.
- Ask what you yourself can do for your country.
-
- >Like I said, this party is no different from socialist parties from the 30's.
- >They pushed populism, but as time wore on they became just like all the rest.
- >Look at the NDP and tell me that is the same party JS Woodsworth founded.
-
- The Ontario NDP is not that recognizable these days compared to the
- stance they took during their long drought in Opposition is due to
- many, many factors, one of which is the lack of real talent in cabinet,
- and for some obscure reasons, lack of, or inability to absorb, real
- quality advice, or even when given quality advice, inability to carry
- them out in new programs, which brings me back to the above. The NDP
- could have done better if we had an executive branch in each province
- and Bob Rae can simply hire whoever he wants to be in cabinet.
-
- >I look forward to the day when all of our politicians will no longer be a
- >necessity. They get in the way of personal and economic freedom.
-
- Real politicians impart leadership and vision onto their underlings.
- We simply hadn't had many of those after P.Trudeau's second term.
- Do not confuse individual failings with "politicians" as a category.
-
- >Deep down they want
- >what the other parties want but have failed to achieve with bilingualism...
- >the restoration of the English language as the domininant economic and cultural
- >language of Quebec and the dominance of the Quebec anglophone community.
-
- I suppose one way to counteract that is to learn the french language
- really well and start using it daily all over Canada, even though you
- were born an anglophone. Heck, I was born a Cantonese-speaking Chinese,
- but I can debate successfully with most anglos anywhere in Canada.
- --
- Michael MY Hui ~{╨φ├≈╢≈~} myhui@bnr.ca Ottawa Canada
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