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Hi everyone from the hilltops of ski country in Rossland BC, home of 1968
Olympic Gold Medal Winner NANCY GREENE, former home of the Rossland
Warriors Hockey Team, current home of me!

For those of you who don't know Rafe Mair, he's a Vancouver based talk
show host who is very popular in the province and has a daily radio show.
Rafe regularly defends us against all things Eastern......however...
he also writes a column for the Financial Post, which is where I come in.

Yesterday Rafe Mair was finally unmasked! For someone who has made a name
as a pundit and who's stock in trade is expounding how my fellow British
Columbian's are best off without the influence of the
perfidious Eastern dominated establishment - to say that only Pierre Trudeau
can save us in the Referendum debate - smacks of too much Sunset gazing
overlooking Vancouver's West End. It just goes to prove his rose coloured
glasses have focussed the UV rays on his cranium and burned a hole
through the back of his head.

Rafe - there's still time! Repent or better yet, re-engineer the country. 
The problem is we sent hacks to
Ottawa from BC's liberal vote, none of whom have any name or standing, and 
as my MP from
Kootenay West told me the remainder, being in the Reform Party are 
handcuffed by the 2 year old new
federalism. Third place doesn't count. But the Rafe Mair media gleefully 
recognizes a 4th place finalist, curly headed Jean Charest.

More questions - who provided the cash for all these people to flock 
down to Montreal today? The Auditor General should watch this carefully.

I don't believe we're having a Referendum, all media coverage to the contrary.
I see a power struggle with the Bloc taking over the government of Quebec
from the PQ. This leaves Lucien Bouchard in the
senior political position in the province/country. The Parizeau crowd are
out. Standing in the pogey line with him to collect their gold plated 
pensions will be Jean Chretien and his most trusted advisors.
In sum - whether the Bloc wins or loses the Referendum - Lucien Bouchard wins!
Jean Chretien loses! The good ship Trudeau finally sinks beneath the waves
of history, much the same as Dennis Hopper's crew recently did in Waterworld.

My forecast for the future is as follows. Expect more of the same. 
In brief:

1630 - 1759 - France Rules Quebec
1759 - 1867 - Britain and the Catholic Church Rule Quebec
     - 1960 - Catholic Rule Ends/Confederation (Hooray for Central Rule!)
1960 - 1968 - Interregnum
     - 1968 - Federal Rule (Trudeau Era) begins   
     - 1970 - Lingering English rule ends
     - 1984 - Trudeau Era Ends/Mulroney Arrives/Interregnum 2
     - 1992 - Mulroney fiscally fiddles while Rome burns/Mulroney/KIM ends
            - Jean Chretien (Trudeau Part 2) era begins/financial 
	      housecleaning starts
     - 1995 - Jean Chretien era ends
     - 1996 - Jean Chretien does a Boris Yeltsin (or a Hank Snow?) fades from 
	      scene
            - WHOLE NEW BALL GAME!!!!!!!
            - Frank McKenna forms the Atlantic Union
            - Ralph Klein introduces an Alberta Medical Plan and deducts cost
 	      from Alberta Taxes. Feds say Uncle SAM!. This leads to similiar
	      withholding from other provinces. Ottawa becomes ghost town. BC
	      declares itself tri-lingual English/Japanese/Chinese. Lucien 
	      Bouchard drops all language laws but adopts measures to make
	      provincial education highest standards in country. As a result
	      French usage surges. Quebec taxes lowered to below those of 
	      Alberta. Housing booms. Thousands flock to la belle province after
	      government is radically cutback and ISO standards are adopted
	      in government and industry. Exports to TROC and World approach
	      Japanese proportians. President Bob Dole of USA cries unfair!
	      Summer school holidays for junior and senior high schools
	      cut to 4 weeks. Quebec has to hire teachers from outside of
	      province to meet parents demands.
    
     - 1998   First of a series of budget surpluses in Quebec.
     - 1999   Ralph Klein and Lucien Bouchard hold 4th annual fishing trip
     - 2000   Ralph Klein and Lucien Bouchard announce they've bought Ontario
	      Rafe Mair still gum sucking.
--
25 June 95, Ottawa, Ontario Airshow
I was in the bomb bay of a B52 from Barksdale AFB in Louisiana. 
I the door Major Kong used to get to the bomb in Dr. Strangelove!!!!!!!
In the upper right side of the bomb bay. Cool man, cool!