They surprised me because | thought everyone and his dog now understood that it is English Canada that has been royally screwed, not Quebec. So I invite them to read a booklet entitled Keeping Canada Together, by Ken McDonald, in which the French conquest of English Canada is documented. Spendidly. For the most part the process has been stealthy. We tend to forget it is taking place except when something dramatic like Meech Lake occurs. But we should have taken more notice of the symbols: the dishing of the Red Ensign and Dominion Day; the dropping of the Royal Mail; the idiotic Frenchifying of all federal ministries (Revenue Canada, etc.). But that stuff is insignificant compared with the loss of parlia- ment’s British-style absolute authority, which we inherited, and its replacement by a French system of le droit administratif, or administrative law. It is exemplified, in case you haven’t noticed, by the mess known as the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, through which unelected bureaucrats and judges have more power than parliamen- tarians and in which bureaucrats can be above the law. You cannot take the Office of Official Lan- guages to court, for example, no matter how high-handed it is. Under the British Common Law that we inherited, it used to be, as McDonald points out, that ‘‘every citizen is free to do anything that is not prohibited...’’. Now, certain ‘‘rights’” have been guaranteed by the State, which means that many important Ship launched A NEW hydrographic survey ship constructed for the federal gov- ernment by Versatile Pacific Ship- yards Inc. was christened on Saturday in Victoria. The modern scientific vessel, built over 16 months at a cost of $17 million, will be based in New- foundland with the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans. The ship’s structural fabrication work was done at Versatile’s North Vancouver yard and assembled in Victoria. Christened the Matthew, the vessel was moved in April from dry land and floated off a sub- mersible barge in a new launching technique. The ship, 51.25 metres long and 10.5 metres wide with a full displacement of 856 tonnes, will carry a crew of 19, including scientists. WESTPRESS PRINTING FKOM Concert wo F INISHED PROD! ied poper avaiia' jCT 2443 Manne Drive. West Vancouser 922-0247 Berwen 987-9745 DES A FEW weeks ago some earnest souls on the North Shore were collecting signatures su that a comfort-message could be sent to Quebec. They wanted that province to know we were in favor of unity and that we didn’t spend our spare time stamping on the fleur-de-lis. rights have been taken away. ” (Like freedom of speech, as | keep telling you.) Rights are now limited by the State that granted them, with the result that we are controlled by minorities, pressure groups, and Doug Coilins ON THE OTHER HAND the bureaucrats that feed from them. Which is why, among other things, the Federa] Human Rights Commission can walk all over you for what you say or do. And is out drumming up business, with the result that minorities have become more important than the majority. It is the conquest and coloniza- tion of English Canada by Quebec that affects us most, however, and most of us have been too lazy to resist it. If that were not so, those people on the North Shore would have been collecting a different kind of signature! Everything that is done in the Ottawa will be French in another 20 years House of Commons hinges on whether Quebee approves. The result is that one quarter of the country controls the rest. Why? Because the French know what they want. In Quebec itself, meanwhile, English-speakers are faced with shutting up or getting out. Their cultural rights are ignored and in the wider Canadian field the cul- tural rights of the majority take second place to multicult. Not to mention job preferences for minorities. Representative democracy has been turned on its head. The peo- ple are allowed to vete, and are then ignored, because we now have a ‘‘French, top-down type of government,’’ and the French storm troops ‘‘are going to do with the rest of Canada what they did to the English and other non-French in Quebec.”" In 20 years, McDonald says, Ottawa will be a French city. For this we have to thank Pierre Trudeau, Jean Marchand and Gerard Pelletier — the Three Wise Men, so called — not forgetting Brian Mulroney, that other Quebecer, and the spinelessness of your MPs, all of whom know how to salute. There is plenty in this booklet about the bilingualism swindle, too, and the virtual exclusion of English speakers from federal employment on the basis of race. It is interesting to note, also, that in the whole country outside of Quebec there are only 50,000 unilingual French speakers, most of whom are on Quebec's borders. And for that we have to have French on the cornflake boxes? We have been taken to the cleaners, and nothing will change unless English Canada wakes up. This booklet may help it to do so. Keeping Canada Together can be obtained for $7.95 from Ramsay Business Systems Lid., Box 43, Agincourt, Ont. MIS 3B4. Ee RODNEY GLYNN-MORRIS candidate for the Social Credit nomination in the new riding West Van-Garibaldi will be at the following places and would like very much to listen to your questions and to discuss your concerns: Sat. 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