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p 4 weekender october 21 1995 stux we all suffer irreparably without quebec canadians are a passive people in what other land could a faction of society attempt to break away without causing a fullblown civil war or at the least without little more than rhetoric in opposition it can be said that it is democracy in action when a group of separatists can fc attempt the breakup of the country but this is riot true if it were a true democracy the rest of the country would be given a say we are not being given a voice m the quebec debate it is being decided by the largely uninformed mass population of a small seg ment of our society arid this viewpoint andrew mair is wrong what do you think would happen if a group of spanishspeaking texas got into power and opted to leave the union of the unit ed states i can tell you that their efforts would be shut down in short order most likely by force that is because in most other parts of the world bosnia and a few other places excepted the majori ty of the population and the governing bodies know that it is the unit as a whole that makes a nation strong can you imagine the revolt if yorkshire attempted to sep arate from great britain youd have another north ern ireland on your hands there is a simple message that many quebeckers are missing at the risk of draw ing parallels with mr bouchards recent malady when your leg aches you dont necessarily cut it off certainlythe ache will be gone but the leg will not survive the body may live on but it will be crippled if the leg is diseased you may certainly have to cut it off but the only disease cur rently affecting quebec is a healthy dose of ignorance and malpractice on the part of its leaders as the yes side takes the lead in the campaign and unless the situation changes it may just win it is time for the nations lead ers to apply some strong medicine the no side should expend every effort and means within its power to demon strate to the great- unwashed who would cori- sider a separate quebec bet ter off that in fact it would be dead in the water and we would all suffer irreparably l now is not the time for passivity the tribune weekender edition a metroland community newspaper patfucupappas publisher jo ann stevenson editorinchief andrew hair general manajgereditor debraweller director of advertising barry goodyear director of distribution vivian 0neil business manager pamela nichols operations manager stovffyille iflfbbffice all enquiries all enquiries 905 6402100 80s 8529741 fax- tax- 905 640177 905 8524355 6244 main st 88 brock st w stouffviue ont uxbritige ont the tribune published every wednesday and saturday is one of the metroland printing pub lishing and distributing group of suburban newspapers which includes markham econo mist and sun ajax pickering news advertiser auroranewmarket bra banner barrie advance brampton guardian burlington post city parent collingwood connection etobicoke guardian georgetown rndepehdcntactoii free press kingston this 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liberty new york made certain that nobody fell asleep during her address after she got to the podium and before she began her speech eva noel bevilac- qua casually slipped her gradu- atiori gown off her shoulders and down on the stage leaving ms bevilacqua dressed in mortar board black leather boots and nothing in between but it is in britain that folks have been doffing their duds with ah enthusiasm seldom seen in that dank and inhibited land birdwatchers in coleford eng land have been reporting a rare species indeed a jogger wearing only running shoes has been seen jogging arid jiggling along the hedgerows five times police believe that he is an eccentric trying to keep cooi- meanwhile in manchester an even rarer breed of streaker has prompted a call for parliament to intervene these streakers appear exclusively during crick et games during an eng landwest indies match streak ers invaded the field seven times but my favorite british ufo stands for unidentified flop ping- object appeared on a british tv news show last spring apparently on this show they have their weather guy i arthur black stand on a floating map of great britain about 15 yards wide which is moored at the liverpool docks last may the regular weath erman was a tad nonplused to see a naked man leaping on to his map right in the middle of a jive broadcast the naked stranger cartwheeled from eng land to wales executing a pas de deux just south of gretna green but it was his attempted grand jete from scotland to northern ireland that did the interloper in he lost his footing and stumbled into the ocean but not before hed made the weather forecast one that mil lions of viewers would remem ber forever not all british nudists get off that lightly in canberra aus tralia liz and phil were physi cally attacked by hostile crowds just because they happened to be hanging out in the buff actually it was a sculpture entitled down by the lake with liz and phil artist greg taylors creation that showed the royal couple loung ing naked on a park bench apparently the sculpture enraged some australian monarchists so much so that they trashed it three nights running park officials finally decided to remove what was left of the sculpture to defuse the contro versy well you know what those aussie monarchists say no nudes is good nudes