[NV Greens] Fwd: [usgp-dx] It's Official [in canada]: politicians can break campaign promises with impunity

[Paul Etxeberri]

>
>This falls somewhere between sad and humorous.
>
>Nan Garrett
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>                      AWADmail Issue 153
>                       February 6, 2005
>
>       A Compendium of Feedback on the Words in
>A.Word.A.Day and Other Interesting Tidbits about Words
>and Languages
>
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>
>Subject: politician words
>Refer: http://wordsmith.org/words/diglot.html
>
>Your comment about this week's theme was more than a
>little wry. And considering the article below appeared
>in yesterday's local paper, I thought you might
>appreciate the timing.
>
>Reprinted from the Calgary Herald, Sunday, January 30,
>2005
>
>                     Breaking election promise OK:
>judge
>  It's official: Politicians can break campaign
>promises with impunity. An Ontario Superior Court
>judge has absolved Ontario premier Dalton McGinty of
>breaking an elaborately signed contract that promised
>not to raise or create new taxes.  Justice Paul
>Rouleau said anyone who believes a campaign promise is
>  naive about the democratic system.
>
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>
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Paul Etxeberri

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