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| | CBC News Indepth: US Election 2004 |
 | | It works because the general public - the injured party when monopoly is supported - is inattentive, while the special interests are totally committed, giving election-winning political and financial support to cooperative politicians. |
 | | By the creation, partly by planning from Europe, and partly by Darwinian accident, of local monopoly powers, who could benefit from separation, even if the general interest of most of their countrymen was sacrificed. |
 | | These Canadian monopolies were sometimes simple and obvious, like the Hudson's Bay Company, and other times more subtle; for example in the special stature given, even now, to the "two founding peoples," and their languages, customs, and religion. |
| www.cbc.ca /news/background/uselection2004/columns_velk.html (1246 words) |
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