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United 93: The Contest

I have been given a copy of United 93 for a contest giveaway (my review of the movie can be found here). This also provides me a way to tease on a new feature that I am working on adding to the blog - a this day in political history. Email greg.staples@rogers.com with an answer to this question and all correct answers, received before midnight EST, will be put into a draw for the
United 93 DVD giveaway.

What Canadian Cabinet Minister, who later became Canadian Prime Minister, resigned on a September 11th in protest of government legislation? What year was it? And what legislation where they protesting?

Update: I rephrased the question to make it more clear. If you submitted an answer based on the previous phrasing then feel free to re-enter.

Comments (5)

ala-sux:

My answer to the Sept 11 protest would be Trudeau and it was 1939 when the British responded to Hitler’s invasion of Poland around sept 4th 1939.

BTW here’s my Flight 93 comment from earlier on BT.

I just bought the DVD United-93 and even though it was reviting with the suspense and underscored heart-beat type base drums thumping out the prelude to the passengers apocalyptic insight to a ruse for a Hijacking that was really a suicide mission on a flying Bomb. The focus on the F93 perspective to what their version of reality mus have been , reminded me of scuba diving and how a fish moves through the clear water and observes life around it. Cameras take you through the event like that fish I spoke of and you flow with the tides of emotions . ebbing and neaping as external harms on 9/11 flow into F93 ,the transference of pain goes from compassion to fear and self preservation. Note how the European was fooled by the passivists ideals to just negoiate for “Peace in our Plane” , ironically he sounds German which makes it worse if he didn’t learn from the last Facsist regime by a Bohemian Corporal artist/apartment painter. The downside was that the Politically Correct mind set and new media fears after the Theo van Gogh murder may explain why the viewer must infer there was a religious link to the 9/11 attack. I thought the CBC’s censoring of their terrorism reports was a hard act to follow , and Chretien’s denial that made him visit a Mosque to comfort the “Victims” of backlash which was befor he paid respects in N.Y. to the 24 Canadians murdered by MUSLIM’S was also sad , BUT this blatant re-writing of Pearl Harbour by removing the Japan ID on the airplanes and only offer full sub titles that don’t translate the hate-speech in Arabic was too much to handle. This over-sensitivity to not offend Muslims may be our backlash as seen by the murders and riots over the bogus Muhammad cartoon issue , yes Bogus…..several cartoons were altered or fabricated by Middle East Islamists that incited the anger on their anti-West websites and spilled onto the Member-only forums to promote Jihadists ideals and terrorism. History repeats itself because 40 years from now Bush will be blamed for 9/11 and Jews will be named as the secret Zionist army that pretended to be Muslims so Islam would be blamed. Islamofacsists love the Michael Moore’s of the World because they fool the useful idiots that accept conspiracies and allow more slaughtering of civilians as part of the original Bush plot to invade Iraq to get cheap Oil. Thank God for Bush ,just imagine what the price of Gas would be if the US stayed out of Afghanistan and Iraq, $70.00 a barrel would look like a deal compared to the $100.00+ a barrel if he didn’t go to war for Oil.

ala-sux:

BTW, it looked like a trick question to make people infer that you mean the 9/11 terrorism attack in 2001 . This is why Sasha Trudeau’s stance on terrorism and Afghanistan is so ironic, his Dad sat out the War and yet when the FLQ crisis happened our PM Trudeau used the War-Measures Act to jail about 400 suspected terrorist and no charges or evidence was produced.

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