Talk:Sheila Copps

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Contents 1 Copps is a monarchist? 2 Connection with Loco Locass 3 Noy-Fly Maple Leaves 4 Canadian federal electioneering 5 Assessment

[edit] Copps is a monarchist?

This claim could very well be true, but does anyone have documentation? CJCurrie 20:30, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Asked about the state of the monarchy in Canada following a memorial service in Ottawa on Tuesday, Heritage Minister Sheila Copps turned upside down Mr. Manley's frequent claim that scrapping the monarchy would represent Canada's maturing as a country. "I've always believed" countered Ms. Copps, "that Canada is a mature enough country to resist the temptation to sever our links with our past.' [1] AndyL 16:48, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ah. Okay, then. CJCurrie 18:19, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Connection with Loco Locass

The best known song by Loco Locass (the Beastie Boys of the Québec sovereignty movement) is "Shelia, Ch'us là", dedicated to Shelia Copps. What did she do to annoy the sovereigntists so much? Sympleko 16:53, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sheila was one of the organizers of that big federalist rally in Montreal shortly before the Referendum in 1995. She also regularly visited rural Quebec for a month before the referendum in order to help support the "non" vote. In addition to this, following her visits to Quebec and seeing no Canadian flag she instituted what would become the "flag flap" where her department (or Heritage) gave out 1 million free Canadian Flags to Canada (particularly to Quebec) as a show of support for Canadian Unity. Dowew 17:59, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Noy-Fly Maple Leaves

Source for both the "$45-a-flag" and the "unflyable" claim --85.181.24.4 19:57, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

If you have a source, why not cite it in the edit summary? Then you wouldn't have to accuse someone of being "trigger happy". Also, the source you cite above is only available to subscribers. Would you mind cutting and pasting the relevant passage on this page? HistoryBA 20:00, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Ups

On the CBC the other night, Doreen Braverman, who runs Canada's biggest flag retailer, held up one of the Sheila Maple Leafs. No eyelets, no sleeve, no halyard line for your rope and toggle, it with. One doesn't want to think of the lads from JTF2 standing around on the barren windswept rock holding the Maple Leaf in position while someone radios back to base to ask if DND can parachute in a tube of Superglue.

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Thanks. HistoryBA 20:09, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian federal electioneering

There's an election in the offing here in Canada. Though I can't say for sure that this edit is a whitewash job, it certainly looked like one to me. Cleduc 17:54, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment

I have assessed this as Start Class, as it contains more detail and organization than would be expected of a Stub, although it requires a great deal more referencing and in-line citations to reach B. I have assessed this as low importance, as I do not feel that many people outside of Canada would be familiar with the subject of the article. Cheers, CP 22:19, 15 September 2007 (UTC)