Massively [OT] Re: [oclug] tell your municipal politician about

[Jon Earle]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 cbbrowne at hex.net wrote:

> > My personal view on multiculturalism is that it is bad for 
> > _people_.  We're all human; black, white, etc.  There is _no_ difference,
> > none, nada, zilch, zip-o.  
> 
> My regard for it is more along the lines of "vive la difference;" I'd feel 
> poorer without the option of ordering Lamb Rogan Josh for lunch, and the fact 
> that I'm only mentioning food says I'm being incomplete, not that I'm thinking 
> food's the only important thing.

Which is why I mentioned that it adds variety to the Canadian cultural
landscape, which is a good thing.
> 
> > Yet our government, as a relic of the Mulroney
> > era, would have us believe that the bag that carries our bones is
> > some magic key to differentiate one another.  
> 
> Isn't this more a relic of the Trudeau era?  The big movement into the "modern 
> official multiculturism as we see it" came in at that
> time...

I though Mulroney introduced a multi-cultural policy while Trudeau had
introduced equality.  I admit, I'm not totally up on the history of the
various policies.

Jon