4- Wedaesdiay, March 30, 198K North Shore News BO TERRY Corp. passengers wilt be paving more starting briday Phe costoaf a ane was car and passenper tap to Varncouser tstand from the maimbind will meredse by SO cents, from $20.80 to SIE. Commercnd sebtele fares will rise HO cents per foot, while bus fares willincrease bs lise cunts per foot, . . ‘be Round trip fares from. Hetse JOHN TURNER may be (technically correct when he ducks shoe Bay to the Sunshine Coast behind the shield of cabinet secrecy to fend of f questions will alsa increase from 320.500 to about his role in the use of the War Measures act 18 years 421. ® strictly personal @ ago. Stephen Ropers, the omunister But morally, politically and simply as a man, he inadvertently reveals several things about himself and his party, about the system of government we have in Canada, why John Turner will never be prime minister again, and why the Liberals will never rule until he has finished strutting and fretting his hour upon the stage. There is of course something Shakespearean about Turner's personal drama. He is a kind of a milquetoast MacBeth. Following bad advice, he killed off a pack of his political fellows to become king and was driven out of his bean in the process. It's too bad, but the destinies of most nations ride on the shoulders of pretty weird individuals. Canada is hostage at the moment to the ego of onc single man. CSET DEN cc Canada is hostage at the moment to the ego of one single man. Perversely, he is not the prime minister. But because he wants so badly to be, he will return Brian, Mila and the kids to 12 Sussex Drive.”’ Perversely, he is not the prime minister. But because he wants so badly to be, he will return Brian, Mila and the kids to 12 Sussex Drive. The central fact of our political life now is the almost absolute cer- tainty that the Liberals would win the next election if they had a new leader. But barring a revelation on the campaign (rail to Damascus, the “true Grit’ will grind his teeth, as jocks do when the going gets tough, and lead his party to another disaster, His tight-lippedness about the War Measures Act gives us the measure of the man: he was — and remains — smaller than events. Former Liberal transport minister Don Jamieson’s post- humous admission that there was no evidence of an insurrection in October 1970, means that Trudeau did send the army into Quebec purely for political reasons. Other Jeaders who have done this have been called dictators. That Trudeau so.achow got away with it speaks reams about the willingness of an appalling number of Canadians to lie down and let SCULPTURED NAILS So thin, and naturai looking. ALL WAXING SUNTANNING 10 Suntan sessions. 10% OFF $3999 Also European Facials, Lash Tinting. Manicure, Pedicure & Makeup. P| Chez Elle =stnerics | #10 - 636 Clyde Ave. 922-1225 (West Van, Park Royal area) authority walk all over them. Of course it's history, but it has direct bearing on the present mo- ment, particularly when a man who offers himself as candidate for the highest office in the kind refuses to answer straight ques- tions about his endorsement of an assault on rights and freedoms in this country matched only by the internment of the Japanese- Canadians. And at least then there was a war going on as an excuse. In 1970, the RCMP were utterly unable to come up with any proof of an organized insurgency, yet Trudeau went straight ahead and stripped every Canadian of our legal protection against imprison- ment on political grounds. From detaining supposedly free citizens, it is a small step to order- ing soldiers to start shooting. Fora while in October 1970, it could have happened. Trodeau and his cabinet had seized power. It was an ‘emergency take-over"* every bit as phoncy as Hitler's. As fate would have it, the Trudeau oligarchy eventually handed power back to Parliament. Lucky for us. Our Fuechrer turned out to be not quite as mad or bad as other famous tyrants. But he might have gone that way, and the point is there was litle we could have done about it, except ultimately orga- nized a real insurrection, which 1, for one, would have immediately joined. Where was John Turner when my fundamental rights were being thrown out the window by a ruthless Trudeau wanting to show military muscle in Quebec to win political points? Turner was right there in that cabinet-full of grovelling men and women who were the first Cana- dians to get down on their knees, A damned lackey! Lhappen to think Ghat the in. position of the War Measures Act as an act of treason, really, 1 was an atiick from the top downward, Hts use ducing Ge Second Wold War, let us keep firnily in nin, was a terrible failure of democracy, and the Mulroney government's refusals fo make restitution to Japanese-Canadians is a contioutog tecrible failure, H's notas Chough we can't al ford it, We could compensate every Japanese-Canadian in this country for less Chan the price of one of those stupid muclear sub- marines the Tories babble about buying. 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