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From: jimr@hcrvx2.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Apology for EXPO posting.
Message-ID: <2368@hcrvx2.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Aug-86 14:34:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: hcrvx2.2368
Posted: Mon Aug  4 14:34:15 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 5-Aug-86 01:22:53 EDT
References: <225@mdivax1.UUCP> <334@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jimr@hcrvx2.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <334@ubc-cs.UUCP> andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews) writes:
>  Support the only provincial government which still sells South
>    African wines in its liquor stores!

Not only do they sell South African wines, but also Russian vodka!!!!
When will these horrors cease :-)?

>  Support a political party which has absolutely no political
>    philosophy except to get re-elected and keep out the "socialists"
>    (a political party approximately equivalent to the SDP in Britain)!

Actually, there is something to be said for keeping the socialists (note 
the lack of quotation marks) out. Also, in my opinion it would be more
fair to compare the NDP (Canada's socialist party) to Britain's Labour
party. If for no other reason than both parties are basically the political
arms of the labour unions.

>
>  Above all, come and wait in hour-long lineups to get into the good-
>    quality exhibits and then get so p***ed off that you go into the
>    other pavilions and see some kind of 8mm travelogue and get the local
>    wares of the country pushed on you and then get ripped off for food
>    at one of the several Macdonalds that form the main form of nutrition
>    at the fairgrounds, and then go home without seeing any more of 
>    the rest of Vancouver, the rest of British Columbia, or the rest of
>    Canada!
>
>I know about that last bit only second-hand, of course.  I'm boycotting it.
>

What is really kinda interesting is that the leader of the provincial
socialist party is *not* telling people to boycott EXPO. In fact, he
says that even though he was against it, now that it's a reality it
behooves British Columbians to try to make it as much a success as
possible. 

J.B. Robinson

P.S. Nearly everyone that I've talked to who has been to EXPO thought
     it was great. I'll be there next month.