Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!yetti!geac!david From: david@geac.UUCP (David Haynes) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Canadian Identity Message-ID: <545@geac.UUCP> Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 09:03:05 EST Article-I.D.: geac.545 Posted: Fri Feb 20 09:03:05 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Feb-87 02:52:55 EST References: <12419@watnot.UUCP> <1469@hcrvx1.UUCP> <542@geac.UUCP> <2313@watdragon.UUCP> Reply-To: david@geac.UUCP (David Haynes) Distribution: can Organization: Geac Computers Intl. Toronto, CANADA Lines: 46 In article <2313@watdragon.UUCP> hwarkentyne@watdragon.UUCP (Kenneth Warkentyne) writes: >In article <542@geac.UUCP> david@geac.UUCP (David Haynes) writes: >> >>Anyone want to come up with a working definition of ``Canadian Cultural >>Identity''? >> > >Part of the Canadian cultural identity is worrying about our Canadian >cultural identity. > >Certainly Canada is too diverse a nation to have a single identity >so why bother trying to pigeonhole ourselves ? I think that we should >stop worrying about defining things and get on with doing things and >this will prove to be a better definition of a Canadian identity than >any essay you care to write on the matter. > >Ken Warkentyne Perhaps I was not clear in my previous posting. The question is really this, "How can we decide what is or is not threatening to our Canadian Cultural Identity, if we can not even define it to ourselves?" Mr. Warkentyne states that we should just do things and not worry. I am unclear how this attitude is supposed to fit into the framework of the Canada/U.S. free trade negotiations I set in my previous posting. How is just doing things going to help/hinder our efforts there? What sort of things do you propose we just start doing? How are we protecting our Cultural Identity by just doing? By taking another tack on the problem, perhaps what Mr. Warkentyne is proposing is that by our actions a definition will appear. I guess the problem I have with that is that we have stated very clearly (or, at least, our Federal Government has stated clearly) that Canada's Cultural Identity (heritage??) is *not* on the bargaining table in the Free Trade negotiations. What I was looking for was a clearer definition of what that meant. -david- -- ========================================================================== David Haynes (utzoo!yetti!geac!david) Geac Computers International Inc. +1 416 475 0525 x 3420 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, CANADA, L3R 1B3