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I welcome Conrad Black, distinguished biographer writing at the National Post about Rex Murphy, who left us, but he left us laughing.

You describe him Conrad, good evening, as a Newfoundland leprechaun.

What does that convey?

The Newfoundland, I'm not familiar what that association means good evening.

Yeah good evening Q Jim.

Rex Murphy, Rex Robert Raphael Murphy was from Newfoundland which as all Canadians know is a quite

distinct part of Canada. It's an island as well as a section of the mainland of Canada in northeastern Quebec or joining

northeastern Quebec and they have a distinct Newpenland accent and and Newfoundland was itself an

independent country and it was the first part of the new world to be

discovered by the English in the late and the very end of the 15th century

and it actually was set up as an autonomous country but it wasn but it wasn't really economically successful in that role, and so it elected

to become a province of Canada in 1949.

And that was the last piece of Canada to join the country.

And so it's really a very distinctive place within Canada and and they're a popular part of the

Canadian population is the colorful people with a colorful accent and they they produce excellent

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