Pity poor ol

‘all him foot-and-mouth disease Mulroney,
and feel sorry for Mary Collins and Chuck
Cook, who now have to pretend that they
and Brian are not related.

Did you ever see such a

bonehead performance as
Mulroney’s ‘‘jokes’’ on
patronage? Here’s a guy who
is offered a home run,
courtesy of the trough-loving
Liberals, and he has to go
and screw it up.

Not that he hadn’t already
screwed things up, which is
why he’s not galloping ahead
in the polls. Still, there
hadn’t been anything quite
like the Liberal patronage
scandal. Not since the last
time, anyway. And then

Mulroney has to go and joke |

about it. Or so he says.

1 don’t believe for one
minute that he was joking.
What he said on that plane, |
am sure, came from the real
Brian Mulroney.

The real Brian Mulroney is
an old-style Irish politician
who would send free drinks
to everyone in the country if
he thought it would put him
into the prime minister’s
chair.

The only thing Brian really
believes in is Brian.

He was talking about
Bryce Mackasey’s disgraceful
ambassadorial appointment

by
Doug Collins

to Portugal when he put his
foot in his mouth, and what
he said was:

**Let’s face it. There’s no
whore like an old whore. If
1’d been in Bryce’s position,
I’d have been right in there

with my nose in the public
trough like the rest of them.”’

Of course he would. I’ve
never doubted it. Wasn’t he_
the guy who said he could see
a roomful of senators in his
audience? In any event,
here’s how I know he wasn’t
joking: —

When politicians travel
with the media, the inex-
perienced ones let their hair
down. And their tongues out.

And it’s usually all off the

record. This time, Batter-for-
Brains Brian made it off the
record after the record was
playing.

His final line was: ‘‘I’m
taking the highroad now.”’

He got that wrong, too. He
should have said the low
road, because after going in-
to hiding for a day he came
slinking on to TV, using his
parson’s voice and making
inept apologies.

A disgusting performance.

ses

Talking about TV, did you
see those fanatics in Win-
nipeg trying to beat the hell
out of the Indian consul the
other night in yet another in-
stance of Sikh violence? | say
‘‘another’’ because there
have been incidents a-plenty.
Two years ago, for example,
a judge cowered behind his

bench in Toronto while a
Sikh killed three people in the
courtroom, including a
lawyer. a

Those peace-loving im-
migrants would have killed
the consul, too. ‘‘Kill the
bastard,’’ they were
shouting. Only a big effort by
the cops prevented the man
from being carried off in a
box.

It wasn’t violence, of
course. Their wild-eyed
spokesman said so. And if it
was violence, then it was all
the fault of the cops.

No charges were laid. But
if you or I tried such a trick
we'd be behind bars in no
time. Still, | hope politicians
of all parties were watching,

' they being responsible for let-

ting those people into this
country.

But that’s not really the
item. The item is that right
after that piece of East In-
dian culture went off the
screen we saw the Liberals’
multiculturalism propaganda
ad, the one in which a milky
voice purrs:

‘‘Canada! — a _ special
place where we are free to
celebrate our freedom and
keep our own culture. Come
on, Canada.”’

Come on for what? Race
wars?

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Dear Editor:

1 MUST protest the racist
and ignorant remarks of your
columnist, Doug Collins,
that appeared in.the North
Shore News on Sunday,
March 18, 1984. Briefly, let
me outline the substance of
my objection to the
statements you allowed to ap-
pear in your paper.

Mr. Colhns takes excep-
tion to the term, ‘‘First Na-
tions’’. If he had bothered to
read the all-party Parliamen.
tary committee report on In-

dian Self Government
published last fall, he would
learn that the term derives

from none other than George
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