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From: Gary.Bewell@f34.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Bewell)
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Subject: GOVERNMENT
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Date: 4 Jun 90 19:08:22 GMT
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 JE> I was reading your message to Laura commenting that you 
 JE> cannot think of anybody disabled in your government.  I 
 JE> started thinking about it and realized that I could not 
 JE> think of any MPs (members of parliament) in our canadian 
 JE> government either.  No wonder we are having such a hard 
 JE> time getting the government to make changes to make the 
 JE> lives of the disabled easier.

Provinically Don Getty, the Premier of Alberta, was beat out in the
last provinical election by Percy Wickman who has a disability.
(For those in the States, the Premier is similar to a Governor
although he becomes premier because his party won a majority of
seats in the Legislature.)  Getty had to run in a by-election to
get a seat in the Legislature.

Federally Stanley Knowles comes to mind even though he is retired.
He was a member of Parliament for 38 years.  He was diagnosed as
having MS back in 1946 and suffered a stroke in 1982.  Here are
some extracts from the Canadian Encyclopedia:

'the best known and respected of Canada's Opposition MPs'

'In 1984 Parliament, in an extraordinary retirement gift, named him
an honourary officer of the House with a place, for life, at the
Clerk's Table.'

If you are able to watch the parliamentary channel, you will see
him seated on the left side of a table just in front of the Speaker
of the House of Commons.

   Gary

 # Origin: T.P.V. - Calgary, Alberta, Canada (NETWORK 8:7500/198)

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