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YOUR MAN Doug has just had a brilliant idea. There
should be National Hate Literature Awards, and the CBC
could provide special coverage for them on The Journal.

It would be quite safe for the corporation to do this,
because the ceremonies would boost bilingualism.

This brainwave came to me
after Jean Larose had won the
$5,000 Governor General's
Literary Award for his book La
petite noirceur, which title you
can get Laurier LaPee to
translate for you. To add color
to the event, the prize was hand-
ed out in Calgary at the Olympic
Arts Festival by Herself, the
Governor General of Bil-
ingualismn and Multicult, Jeanne
Sauve.

I have not read Larose’s opus
myself, being pig-English. But it
was described this way by Mark
Abley in The Gazette, the only
English language daily
newspaper left in Montreal:

“A book that instructs
Quebecers to ‘nurture our hatred
for Canada’ has been nominated
for the 1987 Governor General's

_ Award — the foremost literary

prize in Canada,

“La petite noirceur, by Jean
Larose, a litcrature professor at
l’universite de Montreal, also
tells its readers:

** ‘Everything that weakens
and humiliates Canada...must

' Cause us to rejoice.’ Larose

characterizes English Canadians
as vulgar and small-minded, and

' claims they have ‘nothing to of-
fer us but their stupid mediocri-

ty"

Except, the reporter might
have added, for their determina-
tion to crawl to French Canada
and to destroy themselves.

The professor wasn’t present
to collect the bucks himself.
Perhaps he was busy concocting
his next great work. But he sent
a message stating that ‘‘in spite
of everything that Quebec might
have against Canada, we must
pay tribute to the fact that it is a
free country where dissidence is
allowed and even rewarded.”

Some people woud disagrec.
Ernst Zundel and James
Keegstra, for instance.

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Did I mention the CBC? That
gives me another idea. There
should be Governor General’s
Awards for The Most Slanted
Television Program.

The Journal would win in a
walk for its two-episode, piss-a-
bed propaganda feature called
Le Canada Nouveau, which

Man pleads
guilty to
sex charge

ne

A 31-YEAR-OLD Gibsons man
will be sentenced March 31 in
North Vancouver provincial court
after he pleaded guilty Feb. 22 toa
charge of having sexual intercourse
with his foster daughter.

James Carl Joseph was original-
ly charged in connection with an
April 21 incident.

was shown a few days ago and
informed us how delighted we
were to get French on the cor-
nflake boxes. (With more to
come, as readers of this column
will know.)

It was pure CHC.

Bill 101, Quebce's fascist
language law that forbids the use
of English on public signs and
shop fronts, was dismissed in
two sentences. H's necessary for
the preservation of French, we
were told.

There were lots of references
to the French having been
“second-class citizens,’ bul not
a word about the 80,000 and
more English speakers who have
quit the province because they
were being discriminated against.

We were told that the country
would have broken up had it not
been for official bilingualism.
But that's not what Rene Leves-
que used to say. He said he
didn't give a damn about
whether French was spoken in
the rest of the country. He was
concerned about French power
in Quebec.

A small nugget of interest, if
true, was that we have that
French-language station in Van-
couver so that Francos who hap-
pen to drop by can feel at home.
(The station costs us millions
and the last time [ checked, had
a peak audience of 500.)

Le Canada Nouveau my ass.
Give me the Kingdom of British
Columbia and put a fence
around the place,

kt kk

It is nice to be loved. I have
here a letter signed by a June M.
Vos of West Vancouver, an
abortion fan and militant
feminist who says that freedom
is ‘‘not being controlled by
men.”’

In her darling postscript she
states: ‘‘I’m planning for my
future business -- STUD FARM!
-- and am vying for Collins who
I will use to service all dark
women!’’

Whom you will use, Vos old
girl. Also, you can’t vie for me.
Abuse men if you will, but don’t
abuse the language. Besides, do
you think that Grey Eyes would
ever let you use I that way? ©

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