Remembering Angus MacLean

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 01:32:27 -0800
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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

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Aaron Koleszar <aaronk@isn.net>
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the sidelines it will be fascism."    - Richard K. Moore



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