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I have been a political junkie since high school when MacKenzie King was prime minister. While in school I tried to introduce political parties as part of the student council but the school would have none of it. It was during this time I got my first taste of municipal politics when as the local reporter for the Stratford Beacon Herald I covered council deliberations over the planning and installation of our small Huron County town’s first sewage system. Though the project was first recommended in 1918 by the town’s public health doctor, 20 years later there was still opposition by those who felt individual septic systems were still fine. Activism started when two of us looked into Jim Crow practices in the Chatham/Dresden area for the University of Western Ontario’s Student Christian Movement. I found more dignity, integrity, and understanding in the minister of a poor black church in Dresden than in all the local politicians we interviewed in the area. I met politicians who could not think outside the box, who worried more about getting elected than what was right and just. The subjects have changed; the attitudes remain. Fred
“There maybe times when we are powerless to
prevent injustice - Elie Weise, Nobel Laureate
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