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Re: Comparative freedom
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:55:47 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
> > What else--oh, we're not beholden to a piece of paper written 200+ years
> > ago. We make our own laws 'n such for what we need them to be, for us
> > citizens living *now* :p
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> I'm not impressed by a country that had to ask the permission of a Queen to
> conduct it's own business. Give me the 200+ year old document that told the
> royalty to bugger off!
Actually, they did not told the Queen to bugger off... because they did not
have to; they got their own PM instead. Given that the Crown has little (if
any) effective power, it is even better: getting independent whilst assuring
a powerful friend (1).
Had the USA chosen the same path, and they wouldn't have had a Civil War.
Thinking of which, the Canadian Way may actually have been a good way,
wouldn't you say? (2)
;-)
Pedro
(1) - well, back in 1867 Britain *was* powerful :-P
(2) - sorry for the excessive repetition of "ay"...
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| (...) Someone once said that America needed a revolution to become their own country--Canada just 'evolved' into our own, and not without a few snags ourself. PET (Pierre Trudeau) 'decides' to get our constitution over here from Britain--got 9 (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) David (no "!") understood what I was refering to - technically everything Canada did was supposed to be approved by the Queen until that last vestige of empire was officially expunged a couple of decades ago. I was embarrassed for my Canadian (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) 'Merican. Pronounce the "r" so far in the back of your throat that you have to swallow it. :-) Okay, so, America is difficult to swallow. You knew that. ;-) (...) I'd chalk that up on the silly side, and we have elections every year in any (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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