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To: Dick Vomer; Entropy Squared
I think you're overgeneralizing a bit in your comments on Canadians. I have a Canadian friend who is a clergyman in another denomination (i.e. he's *not* Anglican). From what he's told me - the leftists in power a couple of decades ago redid the Canadian Constitution just the way folks like hitlary, shumer, and john ('f-in') kerry would *like* to do to ours. It gave the majority of the power to the leftists in the eastern cities, and left the conservatives (both rural and urban) largely without a voice. I don't know all the specifics of how this was accomplished, but it seems they mostly used 'divide and conquer' tactics by splitting off as many special interest groups as they could and making those special interests more or less dependent on leftist government policies. Most of the folks in Western and Northern Canada do NOT agree with their federal government and have made that very clear - unlike the United States, Canadian Provinces may vote to suspend/ignore federal laws - they have to do it as soon as the law is passed, and it has to be renewed by popular vote on a regular basis (I think it's every 5 years?), but it can be, and has been done. That's why some western provinces have simply refused to enforce Canada's gun registration law, for example. What's funny, in a dark sort of way, is the fact that both the leftist Canadian press and their counterparts here in the States have pretty much refused to even acknowledge such things occur. None the less, one has to realize that Canada is becoming just as fragmented and polarized as we are...which in turn poses some interesting possibilities for the future.
38 posted on 04/29/2004 11:23:36 AM PDT by ahadams2 (Anglican Freeper Resource Page: http://eala.freeservers.com/anglican/)
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To: ahadams2
Canada is becoming fragmented and polarized just as the Liberals desired when they imposed the Canadian Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on the citizens of Canada. With liberals, the politics of division are everything and the Liberals in Canada are giving the world a seminar in how it is done. The constitution is designed to cause division among geographical regions, and the Charter is designed to cause division by focusing on group rights instead of individual rights and by making some groups more special than others. Both are a guarantee of division and strife at several levels, which is the environment in which Liberal thrive.
40 posted on 04/29/2004 11:44:38 AM PDT by Entropy Squared
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