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  • Mark Steyn: The Barbarian Invasions (Reviewing a movie about Canadian health care)

    02/25/2004 8:30:40 AM PST · by quidnunc · 6 replies · 204+ views
    The Spectator [UK] ^ | February 21, 2004 | Mark Steyn
    It’s the best part of two decades since Denys Arcand gave us The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire, a very Quebecois gloss on The Big Chill about a group of boozy, bed-hopping, bantering boomers connected one way or another to a university history department. They were in their prime, though they did not fully realize it. Eighteen years on, one of their number is now facing the biggest chill: death. In his mid-50s, Remy (Remy Girard), a self-described “sensual socialist”, is perforce heavy on the latter and lighter than he’d wish on the former. He’s no longer banging...