🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 07 Apr 1998 01:02:32 -0500, gall@uwinnipeg.ca (Norman Gall)
wrote:

>*My* abilities to do so?  I have little.  I am poor at rhetoric. And
>judging by what Alberta voters have been convicned by in the past, it
>would take someone much more cunning and devious in lieing than I am.
>
Anyway, how could they vote for someone else in a single party system?
The word opposition has been banned from the collective lexicon in
Alberta.

>As well, what people do in AB is a reflection upon Canada as a whole. 
>What Quebec has done with the language laws is a disgrace to us all. 
>Let's not counter that by doing ourselves further injustices. The phrase
>'cutting off one's nose to spite one's face' seems to apply here.
>
And it's the same (insert dueling banjo music) home boy pundits
that gather the lynch mob for Quebecers that advocate the
not-withstanding clause to trample on peoples' rights. 
Oh but of course in Alberta it's in the name democracy, right?
How dare those unelected judges take away legislative power!