’ DID YOU know you are a dinosaur? You are, especially if you resent French on the cornflake boxes and the plots now being hatched in Ottawa by your friend Brian Balency, who wishes to thrust French down your gullet unti? you choke. Yes, we are dinosaurs al) right. All the trendies say so even though most of the denizens of English Canada belong to the club. Anvonce is a dinosaur who doesn't want a French supervisor. In the armed forces, itll be French of- ficers and English-Canadian other ranks. yous ne pouves. pas travailler pour ‘le gouvernement federal." Bencath that there was a transla- tion: ‘oF YOU CAN'T READ THIS, YOU CAN'T WORK FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT." The stary an the inside pages went into four yrages under the dinosaur club."’ Well, we'll sce how his folk in Shuswap like it if this legislation hits then, Stan Graham, the Tory who represents Kootenay East-Revelstoke, doesn't think his peopte will like it and is one of the leaders of the revolt against it. Weird, ain’t it, that Tories have to fight Tories in the interest of Finglish Canada! The 30 of so MPs who oppose C-72 have done their homework and the studies they have organized are excellent. They also ask some good questions, one of them being: “Uf the unilingual character of 9 ~ Wednesday, February 17, 198% - North Shore News Blasting to close highway THE SQUAMISH Highway near Nelson Creek in West Vancouver's Eagicridge area will be closed at various times aver the next week to allow rock scaling and blasting abovs the portion of the highway hit by a recent rockslide. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and Thursday, there will be five- minute closures for both directions of traffic. The highway openings will bc coordinated with the Horseshoe Bay ferry schedule. dave’s body * Bie By shop 1956 1p, “SLAVING THE NORTH SHORE FOR 30 TLARS” 1431 Clyde Ave. 922- 2500 West Vancouver CORRECTION NOTICE: On Feb. 23 at 9 a.m. the high- way will be closed for 20 minutes for blasting. DRAPES BLINDS CUSTOM DRAPERY FEB. SPECIALI Pretty prints, plains, weaves and sheers. Expert complimentary advice and in-home service. SAVE © SAVE * SAVE on Aftex, Maxwell, VAT Quebec is to be maintained (which it is under that province's Bill 101) what is the rationale for bilingualiz- ing English Canada?”’ Qn Friday, Feb. 12 an ad. on page 7 regarding building permits in The District, of North Van- “Te ‘opposition’ parties are with the government all the way, needless to suy. The Liberals and NDP can’t wait ta vate ‘yes’ to C-72, Which should 2ot surprise anyone, since the Liberals are the party of the French % Orr y | @” REG. PRICE Offer ends Fen. 29 anyway and the NDP would like to be. The fight is now on in Ottawa to stop Baloney handing the country over to Quebec by means of Bil! C-72, the key points of which have. been described here before, And there's a bit. of success, because the bill is being ‘treviewed.'" Which may mean something or nothing. The legislation represents a radi- cal change from existing bilingual requirements, which are bad enough, and includes plans to create a Super Language Cop who will have the power to exert his will in all areas of federal authority. Private businesses will also have to bend their necks if they want to deal with Ottawa. Courts and the judges are not exempt, cither. You think I’m raving? If | am Um not the only one. Western Report magazine’s front page for Feb. 1, bore this legend: ‘*Si vous 1e pouvez pas lire ceci, » headline, ‘English Isn't Good Enough."* The Baloneyites were furious. The rage comes mainly not from the plain but from Brian's office. As an Ottawa source told me when I was preparing the columns that preceded the Western Report piece, ‘This is a Mutroncy bill. It's his, baby.’* Meaning also, of course, that Mulroney’s chief con- cern is Quebec. He is even more blatant about it than Pierre Trudeau was, The ‘‘apposition”’ parties are with the government all the way, acedless to say. The Liberals and NDP can't wait to vote ‘‘yes”’ to C-72, Which should not surprise anyone, since the Liberals are the party of the French anyway and the NDP would like to be. Thus Nelson Riis, the NDP house leader, sneers about ‘the PARK & FLY Quebec, they add, is pursuing a “Quebec-is-only-for-the-French"’ policy, and Bill 10% is ‘‘a disgrace to the free world.” Right, I have long described it as fanguage Fascism. These things grow, you know, When Trudeau talked about pro- viding bilingual services in 1973, he said he had no intention of impos- ing a second language on those who did not want it, and that there would not be more than 25,000 bi- lingual positions. You know now how much that was worth, In Ottawa, the way to the good life is via French. And it is better to be French than just to speak French. 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