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Tag Archives: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

Waving the Flag in Distress

   July 1, 2010 July 1, 2010    No Comments on Waving the Flag in Distress

Today is the one-hundred and forty-third anniversary of Canada’s Confederation and the formal birth of the country’s federal political system. And instead of waving the flag in a perfunctory fashion (yes, I know the Queen is visiting), I’d like to wave it in distress over the present dysfunction in our federal politics by briefly singling out four serious issues in… Read more »

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