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The crowd continued to swell and
already spilled over Parliament Hill
lawn, standing in the deep snow
when, about 10:30 a.m., the Quebec
contingent started to arrive, marching
eight and 10 abreast up Wellington
St. for as far as the eye could see.
The speeches started late, but the
speeches hardly mattered. They were
rah -rah pep -rally kinds of speeches.
In the press enclosure, many
reporters ignored the speakers and
crowded around Alice Eagan, surely
the most interviewed person at the
rally. She was spokesperson for sev-
eral busloads of American farmers
who had travelled from New York
state to show their support. The oper-
ator of a 400 -head herd in North Ban-
gor, N.Y. told reporters that the U.S.
government calls the American sys-
tem free enterprise but conglomerates
such as Kraft control 75 per cent of
the market and prices are driven
down by a glut on the market to the
point farmers can't make a living.
"You can only work so long," she
said. "It's a vicious circle."
Mazankowski's appearance,
backed by a stage full of
Conservative MPs, brought
the closest to rowdy the rally came.
The crowd was unhappy the Prime
Minister didn't speak to them and
booed the appearance of the Deputy
Prime Minister. A few snowballs
flew and the eggs were launched but
even then the crowd died down
quickly.
The Liberals weren't about to be
outdone by the Conservatives. Jean
Chretien spoke on their behalf and he
too filled the stage with MPs. But the
Liberals one -upped the Tories
because the crowd erupted when the
big green stetson hat of Eugene Whe-
lan was seen at the right side of Chre-
tien. The crowd chanted for him to
speak but he gracefully declined,
leaving the spotlight to his leader.
But the crowd cheered every-
one. Audrey McLaughlin and
the NDP got cheers. The
English-speaking members of the
audience cheered speeches in French
and the French cheered English
speeches. Even Lucien Bouchard,
leader of the separatist Bloc Quebe-
cois, was cheered by Ontario farmers.
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