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From: fortin@zap.UUCP (Denis Fortin)
Newsgroups: can.politics,can.general
Subject: Re: Nuremberg Laws (Was: Re: STOP Signs)
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Date: 3 Oct 89 03:44:54 GMT
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In article  kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen) writes:
> > In article <1147@zap.UUCP> fortin@zap.UUCP (Denis Fortin) writes:
> >
> > > In article  kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen) writes:
> > > [nasty posting about how I detest fascist Quebec nationalists]
> > 
> > [rather sharp rebuttal]
>
> [...] I'm terribly sorry to have offended anyone [...]

Hey!  Apology accepted.  I was just trying to bring everything back into
perspective and get everybody to realize that when they talk about the
French or "les anglais", they're talking about real people.

(Phew!  I feel much better now that this threat of oblivion is now
hanging over my head anymore ;-)

							Denis.

PS. 

> Other reasons I had for blowing up in my previous posting:  I haven't
> stopped hearing about corrupt and hypocritical politicians from
> Quebec, not only in regards to their handling of and attitudes on the
> language debate, but also simply in terms of their greed (see Mayor
> Jean Dore of Montreal and his nifty little Italian piano, and his
> decision to turn the Velodrome into an oversized botanical garden at
> costs of several million $$$, taxpayers' money all of it).  

Again, I guess my comment about there being bozos in Quebec too also
applies to politicians ;-)  (And anybody who believes that all English-speaking
politicians are not corrupt obviously has an overly naive view of the U.S.
political system ;-)

> This on top of paying higher taxes to finance a overly-socialistic and
> over-unionized province 

The latest statistics I've seen put the overall tax load for Ontario
at about the same level as that for Quebec.  Apparently, the Ontario
liberals have been raising taxes while their Quebec counterparts have
been fairly succesful at curbing the increases...  (Would anybody have
any numbers to confirm/deny this?  I heard this on a show on the economy 
on Montreal radio.  Though I don't think they meant simply the income tax.)

Anyway, this is an entirely different topic.
-- 
 Denis Fortin,                            | fortin@zap.uucp
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 The opinions expressed above are my own. | fortin%zap@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu