However, your example of Quebec's politics is a
> regional one, at best. Here, in the People's Republic of California,
> women and men are allowed to take paid leave when a newborn arrives.
> Six weeks, on disability-scale payments, male or female.

Um, wow Morey, I have little idea how to respond here. I rarely accuse
people of being Amero-centric but open your eyes. In the entirety of the
European Union, in many other parts of Europe, in Canada, Japan, South
Korea, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and in many, many other
places, women get more parental leave than men. Yours in the regional
example here my friend. My God bless Quebec comment came from the fact
that women get more leave here than in most other places, not that
disparities in parental leaves are exclusive to my part of the world.
They are certainly not.

In fact, most of the western world has recognised that it is not a
slippery slope to PC-land to recognise some differences in people. Why is
this so tough to do with hockey?

John

Dr John Serrati
Assistant Prof. of Classics and History
John Abbott College
21,275 Lakeshore Road
St-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec
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