We would've given you a 21 gun salute, but the stupid government moved our soldiers to Ed...[Edmonton]'

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We're paying the natives a million dollars annually for the deserted base, but as soon as we can meet with the chief and discuss the lease...'

Senate election a joke, says PM...and he oughta know!'

'Damned Reformers!' 'Those are Liberals.''

PM [Prime Minister] promises changes to GST [goods and services tax].'

Of course if we let him loose again we'll have to call him something else. How about recalculated resource tax?'

[Alberta opposes a federal carbon tax.]

[Prime minister Jean Chretien thinks about the membership of the federal Cabinet.]

I meant to do dat!'

[Sheila Copps maintains her integrity by resigning, as she promised, after the goods and services tax (GST) was not abolished.]

'Check one...doesn't work...wrong for the times...unintelligible...frightens neighbors...or fabricates.' 'Can I check them all?''

Out on the Weaselhead...'I think it's just noisy gophers. Leadfeather thinks it's white men digging.'' [Tsuut'ina reject a proposal to build the southwest portion of Calgary's ring road on its land.]

Jean Chretien you just won the referendum vote! Where do you go from here? I'm hoping for Disneyland.'

I expect any moment I'll be getting a call from Mr. Martin, thanking me for the G.S.T. [GST, goods and services tax]!'

[Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach and Prime Minister Stephen Harper brush each other with green paint.]

Ed Stelmach says Alberta wants a chunckof [chunk of] the...uh...action. 'I had to bring up this nation within a nation thing!''

[Chretien speaks to the nation about the impending referendum on Quebec sovereignty.]

Canadian classics Stevie Maple Seed' [Prime Minister Stephen Harper visits the Canadian North.]

The right side of the brain...'I claim this grey matter in the name of...' 'not so fast, pencil neck!''

Check it out! I've got nothin' to hide!'

U.S. President Obama's first visit to Canada will focus on energy and environment...'Tell me Stephen, are all Canadian waiters so attentive?''

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We would've given you a 21 gun salute, but the stupid government moved our soldiers to Ed...[Edmonton]'

Vance Rodewalt was the political cartoonist for the Calgary Herald newspaper. Issue: Federal politics and defense policy; government / First Nations relations; Canadian Forces Base Calgary (CFB Calgary) decommissioned between 1995 and 1997. Calgary Mayor Al Duerr and Prime Minister Jean Chretien converse while Sarcee men use metal detectors in the background.

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Date 1998-06-03

Creator Rodewalt, Vance

Person(s) or Group(s) Chretien, Jean, Duerr, Alfred Herman

Genre Photographs

Place Alberta

Subject Calgary, Alberta--Local government, Calgary, Alberta--Mayors, Calgary, Alberta--Military, Canada--Politics and government, Caricatures and cartoons, Military bases, Political satire, Prime ministers--Canada, Sarcee--Government relations, Tsuut'ina--Government relations

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Repository Glenbow Archives

Fonds/Collection Vance Rodewalt fonds

Reference code CA ACU GBA F3016

Link to Finding Aid https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/vance-rodewalt-fonds

Unique identifier CU234823

Legacy Identifier m-9457-597

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Attribution "We would've given you a 21 gun salute, but the stupid government moved our soldiers to Ed...[Edmonton]'", 1998-06-03, (CU234823) by Rodewalt, Vance. Courtesy of Glenbow Library and Archives Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.