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Originally posted by Garry Shipton
Cancelling the Avro Arrow project putting thousands out of work.(actually,this is when they lost my support forever and I wasn't even voting age)
Bringing unification to the forces.
Bringing in Free Trade wiping out thousands of jobs in the textile trade which closed mills in small towns all over the country affecting my family bigtime.This also affected thousands of companies,sending business south of the border.The GST !!
I can't go on,it's making me depressed,but you're right Sapper,they are good at some things
By the way,you point out on another thread,I think the Softskins,that you're up around Great Slave Lake.Do you know of a company in that area called Northern Transportation??
See ya buddy 
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FROM WILKEPEDIA
"On February 1, 1968, Bill C-243, The Canadian Forces Reorganization Act became law and the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) were combined into one service - the Canadian Forces. While unification was ostensibly undertaken for cost savings, it has also been suggested that Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Defence Minister Paul Hellyer did not care for the traditions behind each service and that the new Canadian Forces (in Canada's post-war modernist fashion) was easily translated to French and eliminated inconvenient monarchist references during a contentious period in Canadian history. The reorganization has been criticized, for example by J. L. Granatstein in Who Killed the Canadian Military"
Gee Gary I didn't know that Trudeau and Hellyer were Conservatives.