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Subject: [OM] Re: Canada Day
From: "Earl Dunbar" <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 22:05:53 -0400
I guess I am not right-thinking.  But I won't take the bait... not today at 
least.  I'll even let Randy White and his front man (Harper) and their ilk 
enjoy the day.  ;-)

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On 7/1/2004 at 9:37 PM John Hudson wrote:

>Canuck is a friendly euphanism for a "Canadian". 1 July 1867 marked the
>creation of Canada by the joining together of the provinces of New
>Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario. The other provinces [Prince
>Edward Island, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia]
>followed later with Newfoundland and Labrador finally seeing the light of
>day when it became part of Canada in 1949.
>
>The event of 20 something years ago is when the Canadian "constitution",
>namely the British North America Act, an act of the British parliament, was
>repatriated to Canada in so far as Canada was then solely and totally in
>control of its sovereign affairs without having the need to seek the
>approval of Westminster for whatever it sought to do under the BNA Act. The
>repatriation of the BNA Act was the crowning glory of the late Pierre
>Treadeau, Canada's socialist prime minister in the late 1970 and early
>1980s. He had the Queen pop over from Buckingham Palace to sign off on the
>official paperwork in a very public celebration. When the signing was over,
>Treadeau danced a sprightly pirouette within sight of the cameras but out
>of
>the sight of the Queen. For right thinking members of society Treadeau's
>behaviour was disgusting and disgraceful but not surprising for a left wing
>hack who had little time for being nice to his head of state. It might
>surprise many to learn that Treadeau's left wing policies were rewarded by
>Fidel Castro who was one of his pallbearers at his state funeral in
>Montreal
>a year or two ago.
>
>Details of the the French connection have to wait until another day.
>
>jh
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Siddiq" <iddibhai@xxxxxxx>
>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, 01 July, 2004 07:55 PM
>Subject: [OM] Re: Canada Day
>
>
>>
>> On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:10:54 -0300, Andrew Dacey <frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > On Jul 1, 2004, at 7:15 AM, John Hudson wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Today, 1st July, is Canada Day. All say "happy birthday Canada" !
>> >>
>> >> John Hudson
>>
>> would any canucks (hope that isn't a derogatory term, certainly not meant
>> to be in this usage) tell me why today is significant? independance from
>> england or ??? i keep hearing it was QE2 that "let" canada go 20yrs ago,
>> even tho it was sovereign for much longer, but given the preponderance of
>> french names and usage of the language, i would guess maybe france was
>> involved? illuminate me :)
>>
>>
>>
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