.- Russian .. cars.
“Moscow’s’ current ° slaughter
‘in Afghanistan? Did anyone

8 - Wednesday, April 17, 1985 - North Shore News

Why do we ban the good stuff?

there isn’t much to cheer about these days.

iE you listen to the doom and gloom merchants

October, 1984, the NDP did
indeed ban South African
booze from the lHquor

Russians either. Nor would
we sell wheat to the Chinese,
because they're big killers

complaints from you about
our giving aid to the killers
of Black Africa, like Mr.

be sensible. We are » capable
of doing our own banning, if
ban we must, and need no

Even the B.C. ‘uditor General s wi about stores? Not a bottle was to too when they choose to be. Mengistu of Ethiopia? help’ at all from the
restraint, She can’t audit properly without more 4. had. And the prime And how come [ hear no Be consistent, Emery. And legislature.
movers of that brilliant

. bucks, it'seems. Well, she should be a man about i it.

There is, however, some-
thing to cheer abouc. Emery
Barnes, the NDP MLA,
wants the provincial gov-

move were good old Emery
and his soul sister Rosemary
Brown. Alex Macdonald was
attorney general at the time,

‘ernment to -ban” South and he said that if we went
African wines and other _ without tainted booze . it
booze from the liquor stores. - would ‘‘send a signal that

But Jiny Hewitt, the minister
for corporate and consumer,

has told Emery to
People can. decide

affairs,
get lost.

for themselves what to ban |

“and what not to ban, ,Said

_the Socred.

/.
Emery is black, of course,
and feels that his / blood

’ brothers in South Africa are 5

being hard done by. They

. would be better done by, he

‘thinks, if we stopped sipping
Paar! Pale Dry Sherry, Paar!

_ Brandy, and other delights.

Not so. They'd be worse

off. But you can’t get that
into the thick skulls of ban-

_ners of alt varieties: In their
“dust! ‘for’ world - purity, they
are willing to ‘ban books,

: ban wines and ban specch.

“Give them half an excuse to
“do so, and they would ban
“Toast ° beef and “Yorkshire

o pudding.

_AS you may have noticed,
these. deep © thinkers , never
“talk about, banning when it’s
‘the commies who are the bad

“vodka be banned when the
“Russkis shot down that jet?
Has there been.a word out
-of- him about the banning. of
because . of

. Doug Collins
7 ere
otalk about ; banning Israeli

\wines when.Menachem
“Begin mounted his slaughter

“in Lebanon?

: Banning South African
‘wines to improve the situa-
tion in South Africa makes
as much sense as banning

‘Polish names to improve the
“situation

in’ Poland. In

doesn’t stretch very far. But-
‘let’s not be too hard on him,”
He has fots of : company.-

Churchmen: are big banners,
too. So: are other NDP
L es :

‘form of Col.

South Africa should reverse
its race policies before it’s
too late’.

We waited and waited,
tongues hanging out Hke we
were stranded in the Sahara,
and nothing changed except
that we became thirstier and
thirstier and madder and
madder. But then, Alex is
the kind of guy who believes

‘in the United Nations, 50

what . we got was what we
expected. °

Then the Seventh Cavalry
rode into the picture in the

and the Socreds, and South
African . wine was back on
the shelves...

Not 4 moment too ‘soon! I-
was planning.to ride down to.
the States :and smuggle a
load of the stuff over the.

border. Only in’ the nick of

time was | saved from a

felonious act.

Anyway, Emety is on the
move again. ‘‘Have morals
no role to play in the sale of
coming from a

“guys. »-Did-- hear). Barnes short, no sense at all. - products -
demanding that. Russian “, Emery’s: thinking process . government. that oppresses

its citizens?”’ he asked.
No, Emery, they don’t. If

they did, there’d be:damned -

little trade.

Not only would we not’
~buy’ Russian. vodka.
“wouldn't. sell wheat’ to” the:

Bill Bennett *

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