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From: newman@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Ron Newman)
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Subject: Expo unpopularity?   (was: Apology for EXPO posting.)
Message-ID: <975@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 03:09:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  8 03:09:30 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 9-Aug-86 06:38:23 EDT
Reply-To: newman@athena.mit.edu (Ron Newman)
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Keywords: Expo, Vancouver, Social Credit

I visited both Expo 86 and the Vancouver Folk Music Festival last month,
and came away with the distinct impression that at least some of the
people in Vancouver don't want Expo and wish it would go away.  

It was obvious that the Folk Music crowd and the residents of the
Italian neighborhood around Commercial Drive dislike Expo.  What I
couldn't tell was how widespread that sentiment was.  Would you
(andrews@ubc-cs) or anyone else at UBC care to guess what percent
of Vancouver is really anti-Expo?

I don't care for the U.S. Republican party but I wouldn't characterize
it as "a political party which has absolutely no political philosophy
except to get re-elected and keep out the socialists", which is how
you characterize BC's Social Credit party.  Does it really have "no
philosophy"--or just a philosophy that we both disagree with?  Where
does the name Social Credit come from--something to do with national
banking policy?

/Ron Newman, MIT