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Politics : Prime Minister Jean Chretien -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (219)	11/27/2002 12:45:11 PM
From: SofaSpud	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 443

Oh, I certainly wish I was kidding. Outrageous indeed. There is a division of powers between the feds and the provinces under our constitution, just as you have. Education is a provincial responsibility, which is the line the feds chose to take, rather than interfere with what Quebec was trying to do with education. Had another province tried something like this, it wouldn't have been tolerated. This sub-thread is really going back over old battles, and I've already dwelt there too much. I think what's far more important than the history of separatism in Quebec is the future of the Canadian polity as a whole. I would argue that the present government is unintentionally and unknowingly weakening the bonds that tie the whole country together. I don't know if anyone has ever spent enough time strolling around Parliament Hill, but there are some interesting messages engraved in the stone of the Peace Tower. One of them (IIRC) is "Without Vision, the People Shall Perish". The 'vision' of this government is old-style Liberal maintain-power-at-all-costs, patronage fueled porkbarreling. A growing number of Canadians, or at least of those who actually pay taxes on a net basis, are questioning why we continue to fund that system when we are not provided with good government in return.