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MAY 2011 VOL.XXVN O 7 EXTRA EXTRA Read All About It Sue Smith: Before You Vote! Mom Scores Our Election Picks P Help Generations help kids generationsfoundation.com 514-933-8585 MAY 2011 VOL. XXV N O 7 EXTRA EXTRA Read all about it Sue Smith: before you vote! Mom scores Our election picks p. 2 a home run McKenty’s predictions 5 p. 4 p. Cotler’s concerns p. 7 Senior-centric vows p. 12 Greener pastures p. 23 Voluntourists deserve a tax break p. 26 Rodriguez: I owe it all to Eisenkraft p. 28 Sex and the City of New York p. 31 24 hours Weather permitting Airport reservations guaranteed Special Attention to the Elderly Pick-Up & Delivery [email protected] www.atlastaxi.qc.ca WE WILLIAMS & ESBER INC. 514-481-0181 Trusted Since 1962 AUTO • HOME OWNERS TENANTS • CONDO “Don´t Buy Insurance INDEPENDENT INSURANCE LIFE & MORTGAGE INSURANCE UntilWE Talk!” BROKERS TRAVEL • BUSINESS 4999 Ste. 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For a stress free adopted by the party promises substantial im- His main opponent, Martin Cauchon, a minister transaction... provements in social policies, pensions, a broad under Jean Chrétien, is seeking a comeback, but a CALL ME! package to boost aid for post-secondary education vote for Mulcair will help build the NDP so it can and more support for culture. The Conservatives recuperate progressive voters who park their ballot are committed to spending that could reach with the Bloc Québécois. 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The hall was so packed we Hear Me Roar couldn’t see very well, so I went to the back of the room and sat next to a Thérèse Bourque nice-looking young man. After a few Lambert polite exchanges, he introduced him- self as Peter Mansbridge, on one of his first assignments as a journalist. How lucky can I be ? I was in awe of Trudeau’s ability to “Bonjour, good morning,” my fa- switch from flawless English to ther said to me many, many years French with such agility, and with his ago.“Remember to vote today. All of- passion for Canada. Love for my fices close at 3pm and there is no rea- country was already in my soul and son not to go. By the way, you will his ardour rekindled mine. vote for Mr. Duplessis — otherwise I attended La Soirée des Yvettes au you will cancel out my vote.” Forum during the fameux référen- I was taken aback. There was no dum. This event and the result are way that anyone, not even my father, marked in my memory because should tell me whom to vote for. I politician and feminist Lise Payette’s was going to act like a mature person remarks sparked such an outcry, and and cast my own vote for the very I became such a strong activist. Alas! first time. I had read that the suffrage The split over the vote forged hurt movement was started in Manitoba and resentment within my family by Dr. Emily Stowe in 1878. But in that remains unhealed even today. Quebec, women were only allowed Later on in my life, our provincial to vote after April 25, 1940. party asked me to work for them, I I never told my father that I can- suppose because I am fluently bilin- celled out his vote that day. gual. After the party came into Politics has always been part of my power, I worked as an administrative life. After I married, we moved to secretary and political attaché for Beaurepaire and I joined my party’s one of their ministers. association. I was very active during I am so lucky to live in this won- the Trudeaumania era. My good derful country called Canada, with friend and I, wearing Trudeau paper its great beauty, freedom and many dresses with photos of him in front rights. and back, went door to door to intro- Voting, of course, is one of them. duce our candidate. It was easy to get On May 2, my friend will pick me people excited about him although he up, and with my wheeler I will gladly had not been in politics before. vote for the party of my choice as I We tried to attend every rally. 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