Path: utzoo!dciem!client1!kevin
From: kevin@client1.DRETOR.UUCP (Socrates)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Canadians apathetic? (was Re: TAX REVOLT NOW!!)
Keywords: our tax burden is revolting ... why aren't we?
Message-ID: <2408@client1.DRETOR.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 89 16:36:40 GMT
References: <1989Aug13.220446.2604@ziebmef.uucp>
Reply-To: kevin@client1.dciem.dnd.ca (Socrates)
Distribution: can
Organization: NTT SYSTEMS INC.
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In article <1989Aug13.220446.2604@ziebmef.uucp> stephen@ziebmef.UUCP (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
>Is this likely to happen?  No.  Why?  We're
>Canadians, prone to a life of peacefully accepting whatever the government
>choses to do to us, complaining a little and then sitting back and taking
>it.
>
Actually this has less to do with the fact that we are Canadians and more
to do with the fact that we are apathetic.  The government does these
things to us because we let them, not vice versa.  I would be willing to
bet that somewhere along the line unpopular policies are run through the
question "can we force them to do it for a short period?".

I for one would rather state the situation as "Is this likely to happen?
Yes, but it's going to take a lot of work to shake the apathy from
Canadians who are used to peacefully accepting...".  Then again, I'm an
eternal optimist.

-- 
--- Kevin Picott   NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Ontario
    "There can be no offense where none is taken" - Japanese Proverb

    kevin@zorac.dciem.dnd.ca, or on some sites kevin@zorac.ARPA