8 - Sunday, April 7, 1985 - North Shore News

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by Doug Collins

| told you so

people on the North Shore voted Tory. |

| n the last federal election, the vast majority of

wasn’t one of them. And that makes me feel _

pretty smug.

What happened, of course,

_ was that voters were fed up
_ with the horrible Liberals,
_ and thought a new day would
* dawn with Brian Baloney.
Being free of such illusions,

and able to recognize a

phoney when we saw one,

698 of us in Capilano opted

for the right-wing indepen-

dent, Barrie Wall. We

thought there was no point in

’ supporting a pretty public

relations lady —Mary Collins.

The trouble with the
Tories, you see, is that few of
them are Tories. They disap-
point mightily. It is possible
that there’ll be a new look in
the oil business, but it’s aiso
possible that there won’t be.
Jet’s see what happens to
prices. Apart. from that,

Pierre Do-Do might just as
“well be ‘running affairs (if
you'll pardon the pun).

The latest example of

. Liberal continuity. is a pro-
. clamation by Red Tory Flora
: MacDonald. (Red Tory — a
: socialist who has no hope of
< being elected in the. home

town under the NDP banner
and is willing. to play
chameleon.) She has inforim-
ed the Empire Club in Toron-

to of something I’ve warned

you about before: Ottawa is
so keen on private initiative
that it’s going to force
employers to implement af-
firmative action favoring
svomen and the minorities.
The audience should have
booed, but was too polite.
The new rules of social
engineering will apply to all
government ministries, to
crown corporations, and to
private companies doing

‘business with them. So if

you're supplying widgets to
such, consider yourself out of
business unless you’re willing
to take orders from Gordon
Fairweather, the human
wrongs chief, as-to whom
you should hire. MacDonald
doesn’t call this affirmative
action,. naturally, because
that’s what it’s called in the
ULS., where it’s been a
disaster and is known as the
“blacks hired, whites fired

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program’. The new _buzz-
word is ‘‘equity employ-

“In the name

of human |

rights, of

course, and
to hell. a

ft |
‘tae ‘political formuia. is
quite simple, especially with
regard to the minorities, so-
called. To satisfy the urgings
of the ethnic association, the
politicians admit floods of
Third World immigrants.
Then, when the said im-
migrants can't find . jobs,
machinery is installed to
force employers to favor

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them. In the name of human
rights, of course, and to kell
with our own people.

It is the same with a dozen
other things: foreign aid,
patronage, special favors for
Quebec, grants for looney-
groups, you name it. But
there are 698 people in
Capilano who saw it coming.

see

Did | mention Mary Col-
lins in the above treatise? Let
me mention her again.

I march into the Capilano
Constituency office the other
day to check things out with
Mrs. Gwen Skakum, the
dynamo of a lady who had
sat there for over 10 years
working for Ron Huntington

and, latterly, Mrs. Collins.

No Gwen.

Gwen, I discovered, had
been given a cold little note
telling her that her services
were no longer required. And
would she please take two
weeks’ pay in lieu of notice,
meaning teave as soon as
possible if not sooner. Never
mind that she is a top-class
worker or that her husband
and son are already
unemployed, or that Collins
had voiced no complaints.

This is the second time the
axe has come down that way
in the Collins establishment.
Bea Symes went some time
ago. She learned about it at
an executive meeting. No
prior personal notice.

Collins is entitled to her
own team. But some people
have a funny way of showing
how good they are at public
‘relations. .

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