8 - Friday, October 25, 1985 - North Shore News Doug Collins © get this straight e THE CASE of ‘the forgotten ten thousand bucks stayed forgotten this week, thus proving that your humble correspondent knows nothing about how Wimpland politics really works. The case of the forgot- ten ten thousand — which f you will have forgotten about, naturally — hit the news in April. It was disclosed in this here col- 2 umn that Mary Collins, the Capilano MP, had been f given said sum for her nomination expenses (rendered here in italics so as to differentiate if from election expenses). RR TS | “A would-be po- litical candidate is supposed to be on his or her own when -the contes- .tants. are fighting | for the jam.”’ wa . The dough was given to ‘| Collins * (Mary) by the -- "|| Capilano .Tories, and the ; sift caused some fluttering ‘fin’ thé ° Tory. dovecotes. | Election expenses are one thing, you.see. Every polit- “ical party helps a candidate ‘with those. But-nomination ¥ expenses: are something else. A’ would-be political .# candidate is sappesed to be ‘News. honored | for UN | participation =o THE NORTA Shore News is - to ‘receive.'n -certificate of @ - commendation from North .@ Vancouver: ‘City Council in recognitién:. for its repre- ~sentation ‘at the United Na- tions Anniversary tour. . The News was invited as one - of.10' media . across Canada‘to go on the 40th anniversary tour arranged by . External Affairs of Canada. AS the News repre- - sentative; ° Editor-in-Chief ’_ Noel Wright is taking in the ULN. headquarters. in. New - York; NATO i in Brussels and Geneva.” oy Ald.-.Stella Jo Dean put forward'a motion to council Monday to make the award ’ to the News at city hall. “This is our chance to say ‘you’re: doing a good job, and acknowledge this tribute to their work, "Dean said. . “Other media’ repre- sentatives include a top foreign -. affairs correspon- dent from Ottawa and a Montreal” TV personality. They must have thought -highly of the newspaper to select it out of the thousands across Canada,”’ she said. - Mayor Jack Loucks commented: ‘‘The North | Shore News has gained many awards in various fields and this invitation is a good gesture for them and the ci- ty.” ‘ The motion was carried unanimously, ». lost. on his or her own when the contestants are fighting for the jam. In the run-up to last year’s election, there were in addition to Collins two other Tory hopefuls. Mac Campbell was one, and in his effort to become the people’s tribune he spent $15,000. Rod Clarke was another, He spent $3,000. Neither of them received any .aoney from the party. They g:mbled, and - they Fair enough. But ‘when they were campaign- ing, they had no idea that she who was to be the suc- cessful nominee was to be subsidized. As association president Ron Wood admitted in April when I was feverishly gathering the evidence on ali this, paying the ex- penses of one. contestant was “‘unprecedented”’. . Various sources said that the fireworks would hit the fan over all this at the con- Stituency party’s annual general meeting in Oc- tober, It was unprecedent- ed, it was terrible, and small children would learn bad ways, etc., etc. Ever eager for a little fun, your correspondent heaves himself up from the sofa last Monday evening plugged. savings accounts. for [,1351 Lonsdale, North Van. Money In The Bank? If you still have money in G.I.C’s or savings accounts, you’re missing the most significant tax loophole that hasn’t been and repairs through the rain to the Capilano Gardens. Outside, a couple of cars bear the legend that their owners would rather push them than buy gasoline from the horrible state-owned Petrocan. Good. The spirit of rebellion and free enter- prise still lives, thought Collins (Doug). There are about 100 people present, and I take up a strategic position at the back of the room. It is important to be able to count all the rotten eggs and tomatoes that will fly. The magic moment ar- rives with the treasurer’s report, in which it is clearly stated: *‘In' the Tory party it must be in bad taste to question a Ittle thing like $10,000. ’’ UES ‘Reimbursement of Mary Collins’s nomination expenses: $10,000." - “Questions?” calls the chairman. Silence. “The question has been called. Are there any fur- ther questions?”’ No. Not a single firework. Not even the tiniest damp squib. Not even a cough. In the Tory party, it must be in bad taste to question a little thing like $10,000. The wretch from the press wends his way rain- wards, Back to the sofa, I reflect that I could have livened things up a bit. All I had to do was to become a party member on my way in. | could then have asked as many questions as I lik- ed, viz. “If you have money to throw away, why not throw some my way?” I did ask some questions in April. I asked my sweet namesake whether she had indeed received the $10,000. She said remember. A great line, that. Almost as good as C.D. 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