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Originally posted by calf+Oct 26 2004, 06:00 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (calf @ Oct 26 2004, 06:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Superfraggle@Oct 26 2004, 05:57 PM
Try talking to any Alberta teachers who know about his days in the school system.# Then talk about him being a decent guy.
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Gotta know - what's the story behind this? [/b][/quote]
Well I'm afraid I don't really have anything as solid as you would probably like right now. I just remember back when he was running for Prime Minister, talking to my dad about him and getting an extremely negative reaction. I don't remember exactly what was said, so I'm not going to guess and risk saying something completely false, but I believe the gist of it was that he was racist and anti-Semitist and misused his powers as an administrator. I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but my dad was very sure and very opinionated about it, which doesn't happen too often. As for how he would know, he's an elementary school principal in Alberta and has been in the school system for some time. Only having time for about 5 minutes of research right now, here's a link that should at least prove I'm not completely out to lunch.
http://www.davidicke.net/emagazine/vol12/a...y/bentley1.html
edit: there's also this one, the most relevant bit of which I have quoted below
http://www.warrenkinsella.com/words_speeches_alc.htm
In the course of doing some Internet research one fine day, I came across a few letters written by Stockwell Day Senior to Douglas Christie, the delightful man who - according to the Law Society of Upper Canada - has "made common cause" with Hitler fans like James Keegstra, Ernst Zundel and so on.
In his little missives to Mr. Christie, Stock Senior unburdened himself of a few opinions. Such as that gays were "sodomites." And that we should only admit immigrants who "look like us." And that Canadian immigration offices resembled "the Harlem Globetrotters" basketball team. And that Mr. Christie was his "captain." That sort of thing. Does the proverbial apple fall far from the proverbial tree, I asked myself? Let us find out!
Naturally, finding these letters on the internet seems a bit sketchy, so don't just take the article at face value