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

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (410)	4/18/2003 4:26:37 PM
From: SofaSpud	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 443

How so? THose documents don't even mention a Premiere. Actually I doubt you'd find a reference to a position called prime minister in any formal documentation of our political system. It's a position that evolved in Britain about 400 years ago, as the guy responsible for reporting to the king about what went on in cabinet, and then later the person who could rally the support of a majority of the members of the House of Commons. Only in the 20th century did the office achieve the kind of absolute political power we see now, and far more so in Canada than other offshoots from the Westminister system. Provincial governments are similar to the federal, except that all the legislatures are unicameral. The head of the government is called the "premier", which means first minister, which is the same as prime minister. Actually the term "premier" was used interchangably with "prime minister" for many years -- you'll see history books refer to "Premier Chamberlain" or the "premier of Australia". In Canada, the standard has become that you refer to the head of the federal government as Prime Minister and the head of a provincial government as Premier. More recently, the heads of territorial governments have been given the courtesy title of premier as well.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (410)	7/14/2003 1:54:01 AM
From: Graystone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 443

not best friends or Children of a common mother. Anti American is such a slippery semantic slope today, I prefer Canadian, much clearer. Perhaps you could elucidate, do you consider Democrats who are against the war anti-American, how about Republicans who are against the war, are they anti American as well. Did you consider the people who wanted to impeach Clinton anti American, how about those who impeached Nixon ? Do you think Americans prefer George Bush to an effective and credible CIA, are they anti American if they think that the CIA should be effective and credible ? Do you really find parallels between WWII, the Civil War and the criminal actions of the 9/11 terrorists, I am amazed again, perhaps you could elucidate how a handful of desperate criminals launching an indiscriminate attack against innocent civilians is similar. Are you of the mind that the Crisis in Iraq is just about over ? Canadians may be a little bit short on understanding the in and outs of politics but Mr. Martin is a vicious politician and has his sights set clearly on the Prime Ministers office, it is his initials that make him like this, for confirmation, just ask fellow Liberal Herb Dhaliwal. cbc.ca