Vancouver, BC
Thanks for the enlightening article on nanny abuse. I do not trust the same civil servants who ran the sponsorship program to manage the national daycare program. It will be inefficient and graft-prone. The child-care problem in this country can be solved only if one of the parents can afford to stay at home to raise the child, which would mean restructuring our bloated and corrupt civil service to reduce the exorbitant income tax rate for middle-class families.
Adrian Yee
You Are Not Here
I went skipping home from the bookstore yesterday with the new Walrus (March) tucked away in my bag, all other errands and commitments happily forgotten. Upon arrival, I made myself a cup of tea and settled in for a satisfying afternoon. It was not to be. I flipped through, eagerly searching out my favourite section—that random, delicious assortment of the obscure, touching on everything from hypochondria to fonts, the “You Are Here” section. But it was gone, obliterated from the pages, as if never existing at all. My afternoon ruined, off I trudged, back out into a cold weekend, a list of unfinished errands in my pocket. Sigh. Please tell me this is not a permanent state of affairs. Oh please, say it isn’t so. The humour found in such pieces is what makes your magazine such a perfect read.
Woefully,
Meredith Sonders
Toronto, Ontario
Editor’s note:
“You Are Here” returns in this issue, on page 39.
Provincial Power
Allan Gregg says he’s worried. In The Walrus cover story (“Quebec’s Final Victory,” February), Mr. Gregg’s byline appears alongside an iconic image of Pierre Trudeau and the alarming headline: “Quebec Is Gone: Martin Shatters Trudeau’s Dream.” He argues at length that last fall’s Health Accord is the first cut in a process of “national vivisection.” Martin’s Accord, he says, represents a “Frankenstein federalism, with Ottawa sleepwalking as the nation is reduced to a patchwork quilt of unequal parts.”
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