Wow! Thanks for posting! That article clinches it! Wished I’d seen it before commenting!
> On Feb 18, 2016, at 9:54 AM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > > On 2/18/16 12:39 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: >> I had an exchange the other day with a politically active Marxist FB >> friend concerning my participation in the NDP, and I would apply the >> same reasoning to participation in the Democratic Party were I in >> Washington state directly across the Strait of Juan De Fuca from >> where I now live in Victoria. > > What nonsense. > > The NDP is not analogous to the DP. It is rather the current governing > party in Canada that is, Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party. > > > http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/what-did-john-f-kennedy-do-for-the-history-of-canada-plenty-experts-say > > JFK secretly sent electoral agents into Canada to help elect the Liberals > > Did Kennedy play a determining role? > > “I think he played a very major role in Canadian history,” John English, > Pearson’s biographer and a one-time Liberal MP, said in an interview. > > “He definitely influenced Canadian history through the 1962-63 election > period. There’s no doubt that his animosity to Diefenbaker made his > position very difficult not only with the broader public, but within his > own party.” > > The Kennedy-Diefenbaker relationship was born in a toxic swamp and never > emerged. > > Before their first meeting, the new president angered his interlocutor > by twice mispronouncing his name as “Diefen-bawker.” Things didn’t get > any sunnier with the conclusion of that first meeting, as Diefenbaker > learned immediately afterward that his mother had died. > > There were the pettiest slights. The two men, different in age, > temperament, and world view, even managed to get under each other’s skin > when comparing fishing stories. They had ’son-of-a-something’ nicknames > for each other, too. > > Then there were the more substantive differences. > > Kennedy was keen to draw Canada deeper into the American sphere. > Diefenbaker, who held the more traditional attachment to Britain, balked > at the invitation to join the Organization of American States. > > So Kennedy went right over his head and spoke directly to the Canadian > people. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
