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In article <329DA4FD.488C@baldhead.com>, John Connolly <image@baldhead.com> writes:
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>People of good will have always had the upper hand in Quebec. Why 2
>prime recipients of transfer payments -- Elijah Harper & Clyde Wells
>were allowed to scuttle a low cost initiative to redesign Confederation
>only a forensic sociologist could say. Rene Levesque put it best when
>he reprimanded errant party members with " dissention has run amongst 
>us like a rat for 300 years."
>
Oh please....give us a break.  To suggest that everyone must follow the 
Federal government and accept a plan which was negotiated in bad faith, and 
was quite simply, bad for Aboriginal peoples and bad for individual 
provinces, is simply silly.  Furthermore, it brings into question the issue 
of equality....and I shudder to think how someone who questions the rights 
of provinces to act in the interests of their beliefs/citizens to be valid 
or invalid according to their size and economic status.  Clyde Wells and 
Elijah Harper were allowed to nix the deal because they are *equal* in the 
eyes of this nation- there should be no need to contact the forensics to 
figure this out!

>But English Canada can no longer count on this lack of focus. One plan
>to deflate the billowing egos of provincial 'leaders' might be to pick
>a time to jam their phones, faxes & email servers with an indication
>that many Canadians want a resolution to this endless bickering. 

Another way might be to concede that Canadians and provincial leaders are 
not going to accept a bad deal- and for everyone to understand that 
compromise is the key to reaching a binding agreement.  An agreement just 
for the sake of agreement has never been popular with Canadians- it was 
shot down with the Charlottetown Accord, just as it will surely be shot 
down by Canadians any other time.


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