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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Canada's defence : Doesn't anyone care?
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Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 22:52:37 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  4 22:52:37 1985
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Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Organization: Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
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Summary: I should have known...

In article <1952@mnetor.UUCP> fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams) writes:
>    Mulroney lost nothing!  What we have to work with is what was
>left by the liberals, and that is not much.  Not even Ronald Reagan
 
     Oh , quit blaming the Liberals for doing *exactly* what popular
opinion of the day (what the majority of Canadians at that time)
wanted.  In not funding the military properly, they merely reflected
*accurately* the priority of the people.  Or have you forgotten?  I
haven't.  I seemed to have lived through that period of time with
my eyes open.  Even today the priority of the majority of Canadians
is peace related jobs.  If you have any doubt, then look at the
statistics for volunteers for our armed forces.  In fact, even during
the worst periods of unemployment over the last couple of years,
e rush to join the army?  If you put the choice directly
in the hands of the people to put money into arms or to put it
into job creation, you know darned well which one the people would
vote for.  That doesn't mean I think their making the right choice,
(I believe in some kind of balance, although it's never easy to pin
down where to put the fulcrum), but the Tories *clearly* would not
have done much substantially different.
 
     Both parties, you see, are made up of people with some degree
of respect for the principles of democracy.
 
>    Furthermore, there was no need to do much.  The US gave us a
>letter, according to Macleans, that states that the voyage in no
>way affects Canada's claims on the area. Then our only concern 
>would have been with pollution. It was determined that this was
>no problem either.  The only problem was that the press blew 
>everything out of proportion in order to improve their ratings.
>
>Cheers,		Fred Williams

     How 'bout that.  I should have known better.  I haven't really
trusted the press that much in years and yet I figured that they
had there facts straight this time.  Oh well.  Does this mean that
the US sent the letter before the ship went through?  If not, then
it looks to me like somebody down there either goofed (impossible)
or they were testing the political water more than the arctic.
Now  if we can just settle the Grand Banks problems...

                                     Cheers! -- Jim O.

-- 
James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
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