Dear Editor:

At the constitutional forum heid
at the Centennial Theatre last Fri-
day, an older gentleman happened
to sit next to me and a friend.

He was alone and demonstrably
couldn't wait for the microphones
to be opened because he im-
mediately commandeered us as a
preliminary audience.

“I've lived all over Canada,”
says he. Friend and I exchanged
glances. ‘‘And I’ve lived in
Quebec. There are great people
there. .

. “What I think everyone should
be asking is ‘What’s in this for

Canada?’ Not ‘What’s in this for

me, or what*s in this for my pro-
. Vince?’ *"

It sounded better actually when
-he got up and had his turn at the
mike.. To me, he made the most

sense Of any of the one-minute
mike-clutchers.

My husband is determined to
vote No on Monday. I have not
much time to change his mind.

I shall try first by reminding
him of the money involved in re-
doing the whole thing. What
about the cost alone of printing
the entire Consensus on the Con-
stitution in every newspaper in the
country? Five pages of close-
printed text and all paid for by
you and me, soldier. (He likes it
when Ut appeal ta his fighting
spirit.)

{ shall point out that if the
Constitution is rejected, every
lawyer in the country will be
laughing and rubbing their hands
with glee. He doesn’t like
laughing lawyers.

I've tried to point out —

f Vote won't settle anything

Dear Editor:

* With regards to the Yes or No
vote on the constitution,
regardless of which wins it will
not settle anything.

The question should have been
to Quebec — do you wish to join
with the rest of the provinces on
an equal basis politically and fi-
nancially? :

If Quebec wants French only

—

that’s fine so long as they don’t
force it on the rest of the pro-
vinces.

It would be interesting to know
how much taxpayers’ money
Phoney Baloney and Ottawa are
going to spend on the Yes vote.
Also how much they allow the No
supporters.

J.E. Barlow
North Vancouver

NORTH SHORE opposition to
the package of reforms te
Canada’s Constitution con
‘tained in the Charlottetown
Accord appears to do growing
with the approach of the Oct.
. 28 federal referendum.

tn a Sept. 13 North Shore News sur-
vey of 50S North and West
Vancouver residents, 86% of the
respondents said they planned to
vote in the referendum. Of that total,

though it’s useless — that no one
— but no one — will settle for
less, so what's the point in start-
ing over?

And there's no use appealing to
his sense of broad-mindedness,
tolerance, multicultural acceptance
— that would be barking up the
wrong tree entirely. He tends to
be an Anglo-Saxon supremacist
— if you'll excuse my French.

I’ve got one trump card up my
sleeve and | don’t really know
when to play it. He doesn’t realize
that the American Civil War
wasn't fought over slavery at all.
It was about unity. The war was
fought over whether or not the
southern states had the right to
secede from the Union.

Unity is strength, I’H tell him.
What I want for our children is an
undiminished Canada with a bit
of economic clout.

But I don't suppose he'll listen

Maybe Ill make him an ap-
ple-blackberry pie for supper on
Sunday night and remind him we
met each other in Montreal —
way, way back when — met and
married between Easter and
August. Vive l'amour, I'll say,
and sec if that changes his mind.
Elaine Hopkin
North Vancouver
P.S. 1 let my husband read this
letter and he went for the apple
pie on Sunday night.

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