At 09:09 AM 12/10/2003 -0400, Andrew "frugal" Dacey wrote:
[snip]
>The first leader of the Alliance was Stockwell Day. Part of his political
>platform was that Canadian politics should reflect the views of the people
>more and that if enough people would support an idea that it should be put
>to a referendum. The humourous outcome of this was that the sattirical show
>"This Hour Has 22 Minutes" was actually able to collect enough names
>supporting that Stockwell Day should legally change his first name to Doris.
The not-so-humourous outcome was that the Canadian public, yet once again, got
convinced by its political elites that actually having a say in how Canada was
run was a "bad idea," with the predictable outcome that the vast majority of
the electorate went back to sleep. Or is that sheep? Whatever.
Garth
(who believes that Canada's new motto should be "Diligenter etiamnunc irritus"
["Earnest, Yet Ineffective"])
Baaa-aaa. Baaa-AAA!
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