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Subject: Re: [Leica] Canadian Politics: OT but absolutely hilarious
From: Greg Locke <locke@straylight.ca>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:15:32 -03-30

At 11:00 17-11-00 -0700, you wrote:
>Stockwell Day (Yes, that is his real name. Hang on the funny part is still
>coming) is the leader of the Alliance Party in Canada and one of the planks
>of their platform is that a petition with 350,000 signatures will force a
>national referendum on any topic. One of our socialist CBC comedy
>programmes, This Hour Has Twenty Two Minutes, has an online petition to
>force a national referendum on changing Stockwell Day's name to:
>Doris Day
>
>The petition has 608,000 signatures so far!! If you are Canadian, please
>join in on the fun.

Now THIS! is democracy.. Where else can entire country join in on a 
national joke to point out the absurdity and shallow foolishness of a 
potential Prime Minister.

...and I HAVE to point out that the guy who set this up is a Newfoundlander.


Greg Locke                         St. John's, Newfoundland
locke@straylight.ca              http://www.straylight.ca/locke
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