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Message no. 1
From: Scott W <see_scott_run@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Canada (was: Agents)
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 15:43:35 -0800
---"Hatchetman, GUV" <hatchet@*********.BC.CA> wrote:
> Well, of course. Canada is very different, the RCMP
> are Canada-wide, and very unified. Not really any
> such thing as running to a different province,
> unless you want to hide out in some small town like
> Likely, BC, population; 47. We also have incredibly
> strict firearms laws (which even contain clauses for
> non-firearms, as I found out.). This is why a
> criminal is well advised to run from the US into
> Canada or Mexico, of course, in 2060, there
> is no Canada any more, which kind of makes this all
> academic.

In fact, thinking about it, I don't remember any
material that talks about any Canadian cities, so it's
hard to tell how the law changed (as I assume it would
have, otherwise the UCAS is just a name for two
seperate countires). There's the obvious fact that
there's a President (bye-bye PM), so this insinuates
that there's been some messing with our political
structure...
Anybody have any thoughts on this?

Scott
==

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Me and Rex took the kar to town.
Stay home! STAY!
ha ha ha ha
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Message no. 2
From: Robert Watkins <robert.watkins@******.COM>
Subject: Re: Canada (was: Agents)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:56:51 +1000
Scott W writes:
> In fact, thinking about it, I don't remember any
> material that talks about any Canadian cities, so it's
> hard to tell how the law changed (as I assume it would
> have, otherwise the UCAS is just a name for two
> seperate countires). There's the obvious fact that
> there's a President (bye-bye PM), so this insinuates
> that there's been some messing with our political
> structure...
> Anybody have any thoughts on this?

A) Get hold of Neo-Anarchists Guide to North America. (Come on, say it with
me... "But it's out-of-print!" That's just the sort of thing you deserve for
not getting involved in Shadowrun the day it came out, damn it! ;)

B) The UCAS political structure is fundamentally the same as the US. The
Canadian structure blended in. The Canadian provinces became states, and, to
the extent possible, set up their state law on previous Canadian law. For
example, firearms possesion (while a Constitutional right... hmm, would it
still be, with the seperation of the CAS. Certainly, the gun lobby in the
UCAS would have been seriously damaged by that. But I digress) can be
limited by the States, and so Canadian states would limit it.

Then you have Quebec, which bans weapons to the point that a dirty look
practically gets you 2 years behind bars (as in if looks could kill, you'll
do the time).

But most of Canada (the land at least) belongs to the Indians, anyway.

--
Duct tape is like the Force: There's a Light side, a Dark side, and it
binds the Universe together.
Robert Watkins -- robert.watkins@******.com
Message no. 3
From: "Hatchetman, GUV" <hatchet@*********.BC.CA>
Subject: Re: Canada (was: Agents)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:37:45 -0800
> In fact, thinking about it, I don't remember any
> material that talks about any Canadian cities, so it's
> hard to tell how the law changed (as I assume it would
> have, otherwise the UCAS is just a name for two
> seperate countires). There's the obvious fact that
> there's a President (bye-bye PM), so this insinuates
> that there's been some messing with our political
> structure...
> Anybody have any thoughts on this?

I mostly just assumed it had actually joined with the US, or merged,
whatever, and so in grey areas I'd use what I could dig up on how that
particular thing is dealt with in the US in the present. Robert has a good
point. Get the NAGNA if you can find it, I didn't find it overly useful
myself though, but you may find something I missed.
Oh, and on gun control in the US, the anti-gunners, while they seem at
first glance to be winning the fight, the more sane, and quieter
pro-gunners are gaining ground with good speed in the majority of the
states, and the anti-gun movement actually never even took in a LOT of
states anyways. From watching the news up in canada anyways, it looks like,
from what they let us see that guns will be banned outright within a year.
I hate the canadian media filters.

Hatchetman, GUV.

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