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Other | | English term or phrase: sobre historia de Canada | One sunny afternoon Canada’s Prime Minister got pestered one too many times by a heckler and he snapped.
Wow, it is so great that you have a prime minister who wears Ray Bans and strangles people. Man, I wish we had a president like that...
Hola! Necesitaria saber que fue lo que paso con el Primer Ministro de Canada, alrededor de 1990. Estrangulo a alguien? Eso es todo el contexto que tengo, y con eso solo no encuentro nada en la net. Alguien que sepa un poquito de historia de Canada me podria ayudar?
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Eye - February 22, 1996
STRANGLING THE MESSENGER
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GREG BOYD
On Thursday, Feb. 15, Prime Minister Jean Chrtien took a hands-on approach in dealing with a protester at a federal propaganda event.
While walking through a crowd Chrtien came face to face with Bill Clennett, a 44-year-old Quebecer shouting "You should be out of work!" Without slowing his pace much, Chrtien put one hand on Clennett's throat, another on the back of his head and pushed the scrawny activist away. Clennett was jumped by confused bodyguards, but immediately released.
Reaction split along language lines, as most French-speaking commentators declared the Prime Minister to have behaved like a hooligan. In English Canada the majority opinion was that Chrtien had been protecting himself from a perceived threat. (The only significant deviation from this party line came from some TV commentators.)
It was a masterpiece of blaming the victim, aided and abetted by the tin-plated patriotism of the press. Take this brilliant headline from the following day's Toronto Sun: "Now, Bring On Bouchard: PM roughs up separatist protester in scuffle at Flag Day ceremony."
Only one problem. Sure, Clennett is a separatist. (An anglophone separatist, in fact, although he shouted at Chrtien in French.) But he and his cohorts were trade unionists protesting the government's $2 billion cuts to unemployment programs
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Después de hacerle demasiadas preguntas, el perdió el control, se volvió loco, flipó, etc. En la primera parte no dice que hizo después, pero por lo que dice en la segunda oración, me imaginó que se avalanzó sobre la persona que lo estaba molestando y lo trató de estrangular. No creo que lo haya matado o algo así.
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Eye - February 22, 1996
STRANGLING THE MESSENGER
by
GREG BOYD
On Thursday, Feb. 15, Prime Minister Jean Chrtien took a hands-on approach in dealing with a protester at a federal propaganda event.
While walking through a crowd Chrtien came face to face with Bill Clennett, a 44-year-old Quebecer shouting "You should be out of work!" Without slowing his pace much, Chrtien put one hand on Clennett's throat, another on the back of his head and pushed the scrawny activist away. Clennett was jumped by confused bodyguards, but immediately released.
Reaction split along language lines, as most French-speaking commentators declared the Prime Minister to have behaved like a hooligan. In English Canada the majority opinion was that Chrtien had been protecting himself from a perceived threat. (The only significant deviation from this party line came from some TV commentators.)
It was a masterpiece of blaming the victim, aided and abetted by the tin-plated patriotism of the press. Take this brilliant headline from the following day's Toronto Sun: "Now, Bring On Bouchard: PM roughs up separatist protester in scuffle at Flag Day ceremony."
Only one problem. Sure, Clennett is a separatist. (An anglophone separatist, in fact, although he shouted at Chrtien in French.) But he and his cohorts were trade unionists protesting the government's $2 billion cuts to unemployment programs
| Francesca Callegari
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