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- From: cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok)
- Subject: Re: NDP "communism?" (was Re: A vote for Reform...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.020040.6051@athena.mit.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan19.174121.4480@mdivax1.uucp> <93020.174629SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <1993Jan22.014114.1347@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:00:40 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.014114.1347@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy) writes:
- >In article <93020.174629SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> John G. Spragge <SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan19.174121.4480@mdivax1.uucp>, robinson@mdivax1.uucp (Jim
- >>Robinson) says:
- >>>Just out of curiousity, do you support doing away with the secret ballot
- >>>that was used for union certification purposes? This was one of Harcourt's
- >>
- >>Automatic certification exists in Ontario. It seems to me a waste
- >>of money to run a vote when almost 50% of the possible voters have
- >>already committed themselves to vote for one side.
- >>
- >
- >Democracy is never a waste of money...and a secret ballot is essential
- >to protect the rights of the individual. But then the labour movement
- >has never been interested in democracy!
-
- and didn't Comrade Rae just author legislation which would allow
- for certification with only *40%* support? how is that justified
- (assuming it is true, not 100% sure)?
-
- i forget all the other details of the NDP's vicious anti-business
- labor laws. maybe it is the result of subconscious repression; they made
- me almost literally ill when i first read about them. and then he wonders
- why businesses are leaving the country. the man is the biggest
- ass ever to hold office.
-
- --
- charles
-