>-----Original Message-----

>From: YUFA in solidarity with CUPE 3903 [mailto:YUFA-CUPE@YorkU.CA]On

>Behalf Of Anthony Wallis

>Sent: January 11, 2001 9:44 AM

>To: YUFA-CUPE@YORKU.CA

>Subject: Re: Ontario Government Responds to Damming Report ..

>

>

> > .. Ontario Universities are last in the country for quality,

> > accessibility etc. .. quote from Dianne Cunningham, the

> > Minister responsible :

> > "We should set aside reports like this and celebrate

> > our successes."

>

>That is very much along the line of the old dark medical joke

>about the operation being a complete success but the patient

>died as a result of it.

>

>Cunningham's egregious ability to spin has a chilling resemblance

>to Lorna Marsden's.

>

>Which makes me think of something.

>Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four just happens to be close to my

>keyboard. Let's see, here it is ..

>

> " .. the Ministry of Plenty's forecast had estimated

> the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million

> pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two

> million. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast,

> marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as

> to allow for the usual claim that the quota had

> been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions

> was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or

> than 145 millions. Very likely no boots had been

> produced at all. .. every quarter astronomical numbers

> of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the

> population of Oceania went barefoot. . "

>

>- AW