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Letter to Editor Feb 15, 2000 Remembering Angus MacLean Being a neighbor and former employee of Angus MacLean, I am saddened by his passing. When Angus was in office I was too young to understand what he stood for. Later I came to realize what he did for us as a Premier. Angus Maclean extolled the virtues of the phrase "Small is Beautiful" and the importance of rural life. He campaigned against the building of a fixed link, against PEI's financial contribution to the New Brunswick's Point Lepreau Nuclear Power Plant, and FOR sustainable agriculture. He even placed a morotorium on large shopping malls in order to protect local businesses. He was a "conservative" in the true (non-political) sense of the word; he believed in conservation of what is good. More recent governments have undone what Angus worked for, and then some. We now have a fixed link, with SCI breaking promises and reaping windfall profits. We now import power from Point Lepreau and our government prefers to give handouts to big business rather than small. We are finally plagued by a WAL-MART. We are covered in thousand-acre potato monocultures and government subsidized logging machines which butcher the forest and streams faster, and more destructively, than 20 human loggers. Most importantly, we have forgotten that "Small is Beautiful". It makes me wonder if the sensibility Angus MacLean displayed in office is gone forever. Aaron Koleszar Melville, PEI ********************************************************** Aaron Koleszar <aaronk@isn.net> _________________________________________________________ "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. That's your choice" - Noam Chomsky "We are going to have either fascism or democracy. If you sit on the sidelines it will be fascism." - Richard K. Moore -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The preceding message was posted on Sustainable Maritimes (sust-mar) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- TELL A FRIEND! The more people who join sust-mar, the more interesting and diverse views we'll see ... and more people to read *your* messages. So ... pssssst! Pass it on ... To join sust-mar just send email to <majordomo@chebucto.ns.ca> As the text of your message type "subscribe sust-mar" (without the quotes)
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