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From: adf@uisc1.UUCP (Andre Franklin)
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Subject: Re: HELP ME (*Oh, what a flame for JJ@Portal*)
Summary: canada & government intervention
Message-ID: <80@uisc1.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 88 18:06:33 GMT
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In article <386@blic.BLI.COM>, ruthb@blic.BLI.COM (Ruth Bevan) writes:
> In article <64@uisc1.UUCP>, root@uisc1.UUCP (Super user) writes:
> 
> > What would you Canadians do without government intervention?
> 
> This statement served to negate what up until then I had considered
> an excelllent posting!

Thank you, I think :-)

> I fail completely to understand the relevancy of this
> statement, which may constitute me a member of Einstein's "majority
> of the stupid", if so I'd appreciate having explained what I obviously
> missed.

No, no, no need to beat yourself over the head yet :-)

Canada has a tremendous amount of government intervention, in comparison
with the United States anyway. Remember no 7 day shopping? Remember their
laws on guns? And (one of the biggies) remember how they handled the case
where that Montreal cop shot and killed that black teenage suspect who
was facing him, standing still, unarmed? That same cop had beaten a black
Ghanaen (sp: from Ghana) university professor savagely and without any
provocation, and the department's reaction was to pay off the professor
and to brush the whole issue under the carpet. No investigation, no
disciplinary action, no reprimand, and the cop stayed on the force. I
read that as a clear case where the establishment (cops, government, etc)
can do and get away with anything they want, ie government control, police
state.