Foreword
Author | Peter Mansbridge |
Pages | 11-13 |
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FOEWORD
hours of October , , Pierre Tru-
deau was feeling a bit low. He was still absorbing the harsh judgment
of Canadian voters who had just taken away forty-five seats from his
Liberal Party and left him clinging to a minority government with just
two more seats than the Progressive Conservatives.
I, on the other hand, was feeling higher than a kitten sning catnip.
Not because of the election results, but because I had just completed
coverage of my first federal election night as a television reporter. I was
part of the CBC News team in Manitoba that night, and I had reached
a level of professional achievement I never thought I could or would.
It turns out I caught the bug in . I was interested in politics
before then, but now I was possessed. I became a political junkie, end-
lessly fascinated with the inner workings of government and the people
who were part of it or wanted to be part of it.
Canada has been a democracy from the beginning. Very few coun-
tries on Earth can say that. Even sadder, many countries can’t say they
are democratic today. ere is no sense in those places that everyone
is rowing in the same direction and political leaders are taking their
marching orders from the average citizen. ose countries operate at the
expense of the many for the benefit of the few.
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