Re: Amazing Canada

john-paul may (jpm@TWEB.COM)
Sat, 28 Oct 1995 15:00:40 -0600

>In terms of "haves" (provinces that pay more to the federal
>gov't in taxes than they get in transfer payments) and "have-nots"
>(provinces that get more in transfer payments than they pay), Ontario,
>Alberta, and British Columbia are haves, and the rest are the have-nots,
>which may sound strange - i.e. only 3 provinces out of 10 being on the good
>side of the equation. And while it certainly isn't the best of all possible
>worlds, I'm fairly certain that those 3 provinces account for over half of
>the country's population (by my estimation).

Thanks Darren -- so is Quebec, then, a "have not" or a "have" in simplistic
terms?

(Usually it's the "haves" who want to leave the rest -- eg, Northn. Italy
hates rest of Italy or Wstern US hate rest of US-- so it's contrary to that
if Quebec is a "have not")

Evan -- thanks for the round-up! Going back to early days ..

>there's some kind of French-English war in there
>someplace, too.

my brother was telling me that apparently (the?) defining battle, involved,
some French bastion on a high mountian ? supposedly apporachable on only
one side (?) .. a regiment of Scots commandos (the Scots invented
commandos, by the way) took them out by approaching the 'surprise' way in
the dark of nite, and quietly disabling the cannons. ('spiking the guns',
ie you drive a soft nail into the bit where you lite the cannon, rending it
unusable.)

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