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 [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
