8 - Wednesday, June 4, 1986 —- North Shore News

Doug Collins

® get this straight ¢

HONORARY DOCTORATES go to ail kinds of strange
people. But why UBC should have given one to a man who
screwed this country royally is beyond my tiny brain to

comprehend.

Pm talking about Pierre
Trudeau, friend of China, friend
of Cuba, friend of the USSR, and
a person who held ordinary Cana-
dians in snotty contempt. But
those clever people at UBC still in-
sisted on giving him a bit of red
ribbon to hang-around his neck.

What do you have to do to get
an honorary doctorate? Let us
count some of the ways:

In 1968, when he came to
power, the federal budget was $12
billion and the deficit for the year
a laughable $683 million.

In 1984, when he went out into
a blizzard and heard voices telling
him to quit, the budget was $100
billion and the deficit $30 billion.

In 1968, non-white immigration
into Canada was 20 per cent of the
total, By 1980 he had boosted it to
over 63 per cent.

He brought immigration from
Europe down to a trickle, created
‘multiculturalism’, and boasted

§ about it.

He spent billions. on bil-
ingualism and put French on the
cornflake boxes.

He played Santa Claus to hip-
pies, hop-eyed fems, and any
other scroungers who applied for
grants.

He ruined the armed forces.

He kissed Castro, genuflected
before Mao Tse-Tung and, while
on. Russian soil, offered the U.S.
the back of his hand.

He rated the Queen “slightly
below skiing and snowshoeing’’,
and did his best to kill all Anglo
traditions.

~-Mr. Oscar Orr, the great and
former Vancouver magistrate who
is now in his very alert nineties,
wrote me recently to say that
‘Trudeau was the greatest Cana-
dian disaster since’ the cholera
epidemic of the 1889s.

But in those: days they didn’t
give disasters a doctorate.

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Argyle wins

THE ARGYLE Secondary School

. Physics Olympics team recently
won the gold medal at a provincial

competition involving 56 schools.

In a presentation to the North
Varicouver School Board Tuesday,
the team's teacher sponsor Ken
Kuhn said the win was a significant
accomplishment.

Kuhn said the win was partially
the result of intense preparation by

This hasn't exactly been a year
that Allan Fotheringham would
want to write home to Mom
about.

He starred in a libel suit that
cost Maclean’s Magazine $20,000,
plus costs.

He was booed at the Canadian
Club's dinner for Jack Webster
when he let his elitist slip show by
referring snecringly to “Burnaby
housewives"’.

And now he has been accused
of stealing stuff from an article in
This England, a UK magazine.
(They call it plagiarism, kids.)

The material in question ap-
peared in a piece Fotheringham
wrote for Maclean's about John
Magee, the World War Two
RCAF fighter pilot who wrote the
immortal ‘High Flight’.

Foth says he's not guilty. But he
doesn't sound too sure about it.

There's something else: During
the royal visit he got his name into
the news pages by referring to the
Prince and Princess of Wales as
“Bat Ears and Busty’’.

But that was pinched from
Private Eye, another British
magazine.

* * *

News reports have it that the
South African raids on terrorist
bases in Zimbabwe, Botswana,
and Zambia may lead to the
break-up of the Commonwealth.
How? Because Comrade Robert
Mugabe and Co. want the U.K. to
isolate that republic as the price of
their staying in.

Can you think of anything bet-
ter than a cracked Com-
monwealth? Ever since the British
Empire went the way of all flesh,
the Commonwealth has been a

farce and a fiction staffed by |

hypocrites, witch-doctors and
professional beggars.

Hit ‘em again, Pik.

physics gold

the team members during an
eight-week training period.

The competition, held ‘at the ;

University of B.C., consisted of
seven events, which tested the stu-
dents’ physics knowledge, and their
ability to solve problems on the
spot.

Argyle placed second in the.
competition in 1985 and third in
1984,°

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WV Counci/ to study erosion

WEST VANCOUVER Council has
agreed to commission a $5,000
study addressing the problem of
Ambleside Park beach erosion.

At Monday's council meeting,
Ald. Alex Brokenshire said follow-
ing the past winter's storms ‘*quite
a bit of sand” was washed away,
making some kind of stabilization
of Ambleside Beach necessary.

It was brought to council’s at-
tention that city staff has discussed
the problem with Dayton and
Knight Limited Consulting
Engineerings, who fixed the cost at
$5,000

The company said the review
would take about four to six weeks
to complete.

Said Brokenshire: ‘‘1 think it

would be money well. spent to
know what we're going to do with
that valuable piece | of property in
order to stabilize it.’

But Ald. Gordon Rowntree
noted city staff members have
brought the problem of soil ero-
sion at Ambleside to council’s at-

tention in the past.

He said he was told by a staff
member of the District of West
Vancouver that there have been 10
studies done on the subject, but
that past recommendations have
never been evaluated or im-
plemented.

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