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Article: Newfoundland's tragedy.
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- Catholic Insight
- Article date:
- October 1, 1997
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EDITOR
The September 2 Newfoundland referendum confirmed what many people fear referendums will normally do, that is, abolish the rights of minorities. In this case 53% of the population turned out to vote and 73% of them (that is, 38% of all Newfoundlanders) want the rights of Catholic and Pentecostal parents to denominational schools abolished.
The kind of reasoning employed by the abolitionists is illustrated in the following narrative.
In the Globe of August 30, Clyde Wells, former premier of Newfoundland, was reported as having said that Catholics and Pentecostals had enraged Newfoundlanders because of the following four actions:
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