Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-vision.CDN Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!ubc-vision!mack From: mack@ubc-vision.CDN (Alan Mackworth) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: A Letter to Brian Message-ID: <756@ubc-vision.CDN> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 10:51:34 EST Article-I.D.: ubc-visi.756 Posted: Wed Dec 12 10:51:34 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 13:46:17 EST Organization: UBC Computational Vision Lab, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 25 Dear Prime Minister Mulroney, Both you and John Turner (my local M.P.) have demonstrated a total lack of leadership on the nuclear freeze issue. Despite the fact that 84% of Canadians support a bilateral, verifiable nuclear freeze and despite the fact that the P.C. party said before the election that it was willing to support a freeze, you instructed our representative to vote against a freeze at the U.N. First Committee meeting. That kind of cynical, hypocritical behaviour contributes to the disgust that many Canadians have for their elected representatives. It makes a farce out of democracy. None of your blather about the need to support our NATO allies makes any sense whatsoever. Two of them voted "yes" and four abstained! Even Australia had the guts to vote "yes". You have seriously miscalculated if you believe that Canadians want to sacrifice our principles in order to curry favour in Washington. I urge you to rethink and change our vote as soon as possible. Canadians voted for a change, for honest leadership, not for the same old self-serving opportunism: talking peace and voting for the war machine. Yours etc. cc: Joe Clark, John Turner, Ed Broadbent, Doug Roche, Stephen Lewis