Talk:Cape Breton Labour Party

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For some time, I have been endeavouring to have this page edited by deleting the claim, at sentence one, that the Cape Breton Labour Party "advocated separate provincial status for Cape Breton." The article that follows this claim does not support it and, further, demonstrates that the official name of the party was not the scaled-down form of "Cape Breton Labour Party" and further that the party ran three candidates in Halifax county in the 1984 provincial election. Yet every time I have done this, some other contributor has leaped in almost instantly to edit out my deletion, and keep this historically-inaccurate claim on-line. It is claimed that an article run in a Toronto newspaper many years after 1984 said this was so, therefore, it must be so ! I was leader of the Labour Party when it existed. The Party did not make any attempt to revise the status of Cape Breton Island within Confederation. I seek to place this on record simply to keep the Wikipedia article historically accurate.

Paul MacEwan, 1049 Victoria Road, Sydney, N.S. B1N 1K9, July 21, 2008.24.89.222.179 (talk) 12:47, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This link is now dead:

<ref>{{cite news|first = Daniel | last = Squizzato | title = Separatist feelings seize Cape Breton | publisher = [[Toronto Star]] | date = [[December 11]], [[2006]] | accessdate = 2006-12-14 | url = http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1165792209563&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467}}</ref> 19:07, 12 January 2009 (UTC)