What ever the case, this is not the forum for this debate, whether you  
agree with me that it is ill informed and philosophically naive or with  
Morey Porter that is is relevant.  
 
On Tue, 16 May 1995, R. Morey Porter wrote: 
 
> Hello All, 
> beyond notions of lisence and liberty?  Do we not observe the basis of 
> polemic rhetoric in our political discourse?  Are we beyond a 
> re-examination of the philisophical foundations of corporatized popular 
> government?  Is coercion so absent from Canadian society that we are free 
> of the politics of rent-seeking and cost-shifting?  Ask aborginals, 
> children/minors, non-traditional persons or remote regions, if they 
> perceive only ignorance in the Parliament and legislatures of Canada, and 
> not a wicked whip thrashed beyond the perview of the common citizen?  
> Ought we not question the foundations and merits of the wide use of 
> sovereign immunity?  Of vague statutes granting enormous latitude to 
> ministries to regulate behaviour (via administrative law)?  Are we 
> Canadians beyond double entedre and disguised motives?  Are so honest as 
> to jeopardize our preferences in political markets?  Have we never had 
> such debates or conflicts in the past?  Are you so confident that we will 
> not have them in the future.  
>  
> Perhaps living in Lotusland, with that great mountainous barrier and 
> tremendous distance between B.C. and central Canada, many here have come 
> to appreciate the political subtleties of American discourse, having 
> learned to ignore the narrow and confining petty concerns of southern 
> Ontario.  Perhaps, we have come to learn that there is much to be gained 
> from *not* ignoring what goes on south of the international border, and 
> seeking to understand, appreciate and learn from it in all its subtle  
> complexity. 
>  
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