Canada as seen through the Eyes of New Brunswick Editorial Cartoonists:
The Insight and Humour of Josh Beutel and Bill Hogan
Preface |
Introduction |
Editorial Cartoon Database |
Classroom Activities
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Josh Beutel, 1981
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Reference number: MC2806-709
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Scope and Content
The inability of NB's federal representatives to reverse the VIA decsion to cancel passenger rail service through Saint John is equated to their preference for air travel by showing Romeo LeBlanc and Mike Landers flying over a railroad that has been torn up.
Title
Romeo Via Air Canada
Caption
"Tsk-tsk, Ho-hum,"
Persons
Roméo LeBlanc
- Born in Memramcook, New Brunswick, December 18, 1927
- Originally a teacher, then a journalist with CBC Radio-Canada
- Press secretary for Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Trudeau
- First elected to Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal MP, 1972
- Minister of Fisheries and Oceans under Pierre Trudeau, 1976 to 1982
- Appointed to Senate, 1984
- Became Speaker of the Senate, 1993
- Appointed Governor-General by Jean Chrétien, 1995 to 1999