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Old 25-11-05, 16:15
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Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) is offline
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Unhappy Addendum

Funny isn't it, how right up to Chretien's time Quebec was the deciding factor in all federal elections. With the coming of the Bloc that impetus has shifted to Ontario; that's equally as idiotic, as few east and no one west of Ontario actually has any real say in government.

Sometimes methinks our vast country should be defined politically as a loose coalition of largely independent province-states, working under the mantle of a decentralized federal government. I don't think it can work successfully any other way, given our low population and the diversity of the regions. Trudeau saw it the other way 'round, and look at what we've become. Amongst all else, the theory of 'income redistribution' is nothing other than socialism at its worst, it just doesn't work for any of the parties involved.
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