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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
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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
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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