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From: migod@csri.toronto.edu (Mike Godfrey)
Subject: Re: The provincial government and Sunday shopping
Message-ID: <1989Dec21.112457.7268@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
References: <89Dec20.141047est.2233@neat.cs.toronto.edu> <1989Dec20.194709.3125@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1989Dec21.050538.6471@utzoo.uucp>
Date: 21 Dec 89 16:24:57 GMT
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In article <1989Dec21.050538.6471@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1989Dec20.194709.3125@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> migod@csri.toronto.edu (Mike Godfrey) writes:
>> ... (As a side note, can anyone else remember an instance of
>> a political body *refusing* power.)
>
> Sure:  the Conservative government trying to avoid making a decision on 
> what to do about abortion.

The feds are not *refusing* the power to make the decision, they are simply 
not exercising it.

-- 
Mike Godfrey		  "Baby it's an AM world, baby it's an AM world,
Dept of Comp Sci, UofT     Get yourself a flag and run it up a pole,
migod@csri.toronto.edu     And keep that flag unfurled." -- L. Wainwright III