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Essay Archive - The Policies of My Way
The Policies of My Way
Unlike the United States, with its generalissimo politics-Washington,
Jackson, Grant, Eisehower- the martial arts have been conspicuously absent
from Canadian politics. But there in one exception: in 1968 Pierre Elliot
Trudeau became the first Canadian leader to bring the gunslinger-Lone
Ranger ethos to Canadian politics.
Trudeau introduced to Canada the refined art of single combat; it was
the politics of "Doing It My Way"-the politics of going my way or being
left behind. Single-combat confrontation implied much mor than the loner
or renegade in power, and far far less than the shaman black....
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