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- From: bspencer@cs.mcgill.ca (Brian SPENCER)
- Subject: Re: Gay Rights and Political Parties
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.153617.6220@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
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- References: <murphy.727951759@well.sf.ca.us> <1993Jan25.125743.22068@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <1993Jan25.143012.21781@csi.uottawa.ca>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:36:17 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.143012.21781@csi.uottawa.ca> cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.125743.22068@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy) writes:
- >
- >There's a STRONG tendancy for immigrants of various sorts to vote
- >Liberal, largely because it was under the Liberals that many came to
- >Canada. Consider in particular the Italian community as an example.
- >They tend to be rather Catholic, and the Pope kind of frowns on
- >abortion, if I remember correctly?
- >
- >In addition, the Liberal Party has fairly strong roots in Quebec,
- >which was very strongly Catholic.
- >
- >Does this explain the strangeness?
- >
- >--
- >Christopher Browne | PGP 2.0 key available
- >cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca |======================================
- >University of Ottawa | Genius may have its limitations, but
- >Master of System Science Program | stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-
- When my maternal grandparents came to Canada from Lithuania in the
- '20's, the Liberal party gave out little "gifts" such as pencils and
- calenders at church and community gatherings. Not being familiar with a
- democratic process, they became loyal to the Liberals on the basis that
- they really cared and both my grandparents, after becoming citizens,
- voted Liberal in both federal and provincial elections until their
- deaths.
-