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<strong>Written By:</strong> Anonymous
<strong>Date:</strong> 2006-03-12 12:41:00
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The federal New Democratic Party has also announced plans to put the issue to a vote in Parliament.

Advocates of the change say "From sea to sea to sea" has been widely used informally for decades to give the motto a more inclusive, northerly dimension. And the three territorial premiers -- along with Arctic aboriginal leaders, northern MPs and top polar scientists -- have argued that rewording the script on Canada's coat of arms would acknowledge the growing importance of the North and symbolically assert Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic.

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[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on March 13, 2006]

[gaulois]

This will really make my day. "How to reassert Sovereingty?" -only from Ottawa... Are there not more important or real sovereingty actions?

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"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"

[Crankster]

Oh...I could think of a few, canadian flag and Bush bent over conjure up an image.........

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A little peice of heaven is found in good deeds.

[N Say]

i don't have a problem with this. at worst this will get people thinking about arctic sovereignty.

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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va

[Crankster]

Not trying to be crass(then again maybe I was!)
I don't have a problem with it either. Just wonder if there is anything behind it?(no pun intended)

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A little peice of heaven is found in good deeds.

[Diogenes]

I will run the risk of being <br />
dismissed <br />
with the suggestion that until we grasp what ÉTIENNE DE LA BOÉTIE,<br />
suggests and we claim personal sovereignty <br />
we will forever be in servitude to the other<br />
<a href="http://www.constitution.org/la_boetie/serv_vol.htm">http://www.constitution.org/la_boetie/serv_vol.htm</a><br />
COPYRIGHT 1942 <br />
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW YORK<br />
<a href="http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/laboetie.html">http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/laboetie.html</a><br />
<p>---<br>to realise our knowledge is ignorance is a noble thought.<br />
To regard our ignorance as knowledge-<br />
This is mental illness<br />
Lao-Tzo

[Jacob]

How many of Canada's 10 provinces and 3 territories have salt water frontage? All of them except Saskatchewan.

Canada is indeed a maritime nation, so this makes sense.

All in favour? Moved, seconded and passed.

[Deacon]

Ever hear of a place called... Alberta?

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and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them

"The Weapon" - RUSH

[Jay Yates]

The new motto would sound great and make a lot more sense, although to suggest that the change would assert Canadian rights over the arctic is foolish.

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"The more you read and learn, the less your adversary will know." --Sun Tzu

[Perturbed]

This is one piece of revisionism I actually wouldn't mind unless there is an intelligent reason to object no one has mentioned as I can't think of one.

How about "from sea to Gilles Duceppe's ego". )

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"A Liberal is someone who refuses to take his own side in a fight".

-Robert Frost

[Perturbed]

....which stretches to the Pacific Ocean.... )))

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"A Liberal is someone who refuses to take his own side in a fight".

-Robert Frost

[Jacob]

Sorry for missing out Alberta. Yet it gives 11 out of 13.

[Eleanor]

"from sea to sea to sea"?

But then we'd have to rewrite Psalm 72!

(That's the "dominion from sea to sea" one - read it, it tells how a good ruler should conduct himself. I don't think anyone in Ottawa has read it for a while.)

[Crankster]

Maintain the right? What the heck is that! I don't have any rights left to maintain.
Actually you are absolutely correct. The more we continue to let our rights and freedoms be bastardized to suit, the more we continue to let democracy fade away.

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A little peice of heaven is found in good deeds.