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In <1993Aug26.093625.2083@mala.bc.ca> dunnett@mala.bc.ca (Malcolm Dunnett) writes:
>In article <25hd06$649@vanbc.wimsey.com>,
>    sl@vanbc.wimsey.com (Stuart Lynne) writes:

>>
>> Well the majority of the people in BC are NOT in favour of the current
>> government policy WRT to Clayoquot so perhaps it's more like the left hand
>> trying to get the attention of the right hand.
>>

>   Please quote your source for the above statement. Are there really
>more than 1.5 million people who have stood up and said they are not in
>favour? Has a scientifically validate poll suggested this many would if asked?
>(I've seen hard evidence of only a few thousand who have indicated they
>actually give a damn either way )
Polls don't mean a hell of a lot any time.  Statistics have their limit, and I
think polling is one of them.

>   I'm pretty certain that the MAJORITY of the people in BC don't really
>care much about Clayoquot, and that of those who do very few know
>enough about the situation to make an informed decision. I'm in that second
>group. I've followed both sides of the argument and found virtually nothing
>that the two sides agree on. Both sides are carefully filtering the story to
>achieve a political agenda and we're not hearing the facts of the situation
>(including both the potential damage to the Clayoquot area and the
>provincial/global ecological significance of the area).
I agree.  I think both sides have plummeled the public with propaganda til the
point where either nobody cares or nobody wants to hear about it any more.  Around
my house there was some concern for the Clayoquot.  After the fiftieth display
of civil disobedience and arrest, everybody just changes channels now.

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