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From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: The Commonwealth
Message-ID: <321@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Jul-86 12:44:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 21 12:44:00 1986
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Summary: 

In article <2354@hcrvx2.UUCP> jimr@hcrvx2.UUCP (Jim Robinson) writes:
>            ... If we are so bent on living in the Dark Ages the very
>least we could do is grow our own [Queen].

     I vote for Sheila Copps

>PS As I understand it the Queen is getting upset because Thatcher won't
>   impose sanctions on South Africa....

     Joolz, the British radical comedian/poet, claims the Queen was upset
because Margaret Thatcher came to Vancouver to see Expo... and we sent
her back!

>                                 ... Personally, I wouldn't mind her
>   (the queen's) position if she would show a bit of consistency and
>   call for sanctions against *any* Commonwealth country that has not
>   enfranchised its citizenry. 

     Um, JBR, would you mind telling us what other Commonwealth countries
you have in mind, or are you referring to those countries which just don't
have an entirely Canadian- or British-style democracy?

--Jamie.
...!alberta!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!andrews
"If you see a punk rocker in the street, smile at it;
 it might spit at you, but it might smile back" --Joolz