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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SofaSpud who wrote (2015)	3/19/2003 5:16:36 PM
From: SofaSpud	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37726

The Rt. Hon. Jean Chretien, Ottawa Sir, It has been reported that email on the subject of your stand on Iraq is running 70% in favour. Let me take this opportunity, then, to join the minority. You have said that Canada would not act in the absence of another Security Council resolution specifically indicating the use of force against the Iraqi regime. In opting for that course, you implicitly surrender Canadian sovereignty to the United Nations. That choice, to abrogate our sovereign rights, has never been debated, has never been the subject of a general election – in short, it is not a decision Canadians have made. Nor is it at all clear why they would, given that the majority of member countries of the U.N. are not places Canadians would choose to live, and do not have the democratically elected governments Canadians would respect. You, on the other hand, boast of your democratic mandate to lead the Canadian people. How odd, then, that you choose to turn that leadership over to others. It is certainly true that your action is consistent with the results of public opinion polls, and as such will not yield noticeable electoral consequences for the Liberal Party. You have done the popular thing. Unfortunately your responsibility as leader is to do the right thing. Abrogating Canadian sovereignty, antagonizing an important ally – these are not the right things to do. Sincerely yours ....

To: SofaSpud who wrote (2015)	3/19/2003 9:21:04 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 37726

I didn`t encounter that in Québec city, from much personal experience but I`ll admit to some trouble in Riviére de Loup, Sept Isles and in the Maritimes. Just had to listen more closely. Seems they understood me just fine, but I had to get used to them. PEI French was simply brutal for me. I found the slang was very different. I had some trouble there as well as but less so in New Brunswick. Maybe it depends where you learn your French. I learned it as a young child living with my French Grandmother for a few years but after I grew up English at home. Most of mine was honed chasing French girls, carousing in bars and on the job dealing with a lot of minimum wage folks.. My French ain`t pretty but it works pretty well :o) You probably aren`t hearing <<Le Français International>>. Learn French if you want. Middle class Quebecois will be pleased when you meet them. But lets not get all starry-eyed about what it will do for national unity -- the core PQ vote doesn't give a flying, er, fig. Yep.