Reply #14: "ROC (Rest of Canada). " - thank gawd for google !! [View All]

[ConcernedCanuk]

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I had never seen the acronym ROC for the Rest of Canada b4, :freak:

and I never KNEW there was a political party with that name,

so I believed that ROC was meant to refer to the REST OF THE COUNTRY - :dunce:

The context confused me, so enter google on the acronym,

and

in the results of uses for ROC as an acronym,

the "Rest of Canada" came up on the third page,

BUT it had (political party) beside it - -

:think:

more googling got me this:


Rest of Canada Party

The Rest of Canada Party was a Canadian political party that intended to run candidates in all provinces outside of Ontario and Quebec, which the party believed were unfairly running the country. The party planned to form a coalition government with the Bloc Québécois if ever elected.

Founded by Ace Cetinski, a Chartered Accountant from Sherwood Park, Alberta, the party's website indicated its intent to advertise for candidates for federal by-elections to be held in September 2000, but there is no evidence that candidates were found.

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The party's website is now dormant.

Cetinski has posted an article entitled, "Western Independence Now", on the Alberta Republicans website.(www.albertarepublicans.org)

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So,

Now I'm confused,

the ROC never got off the ground?

and are now an issue? :shrug: