© get this straight © AS GOD and over 700 others are my witnesses, a disaster took place here on the North Shore on Saturday. But it was a disaster that'l favored, for it was a signal that the public is ready to march against the immigration mess that threatens English Canada. Those fortunate cnough to be present saw a minister of the Crown and his parliamentary sec- retary hacked to picces in The Great Immigration Debate at the Centennial Theatre. Mr. Charles Campbell of West Vancouver was one executioner, and I was another. But we weren't watch the full TV coverage. Ifthe minister wasn’t very good (at one point J actually tried to help him, for humanitarian reasons), Benno Friesen came over as a world-class nincompoop and know-nothing. He was unprepared for the debate (as a member of the crowd told him in finely Muent tones) and made the mistake of in- L the minister wasn't very good (at one point T actually tried to help him, for humanitarian reasons), Benna Friesen came over as a world-class nincompoop and know-nothing."' the only ones. Angry peasants out in the audience were chopping away like crazy, too. Offered for sacrifice by Chuck Cook, who organized the debate, were The Hon.Gerry Weiner, Minister of State for Immigration, and Benno Friesen, the minister's parliamentary secretary and MP for Surrey-White Rock. One could see right away that something unusual was afoot. By 8 a.m. people were lined up clear back to the parking lot, and Chuck said he could have sold another 400 tickets. Poor souls who had no tickets were offering up to $40 for them, | am told, just like at the rock concerts. They must have sensed that there wasn't going to have been anything like this since men fought cats in the Colosseum. ff 1 had been the minister | would have found urgent business in Ottawa or some other safe place. Mr. Weiner did his best. Which wasn’t very good. OK. I’m a bias- ed observer and [ also control the word processor on which 1’m typ- ing this. But if you doubt me, sulting the audience and talking down to it. My humble self he denounced for ‘‘racism,"* not knowing, perhaps, that such epithets are to me like water off a duck’s back. Then, when the audience hooted him for his worthless performance, he referred snecringly to the “thighly-educated people’ of the North Shore. But something else he didn’t know was that people were there from all over the Lower Mainland. In his stumbling opener, Benno claimed that when the Romans ar- rived in Britain, they found the Druids making human sacrifices. His point in making this dumb statement, no doubt, was to cast aspersions on the ancestry of his listeners, who were mostly of European descent. Were there any Druids in Britain when the Romans landed? I’ve atways thought they had long disappeared into the mists of Stonehenge. Not that any of that has anything to do with our im- migration problems. I'm just showing you what you are getting This Easter everybunny - is dining at our buffet. SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 1988 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the brand new CRYSTAL BALLROOM Bring the kids... the Easter Bunny will be here to greet ‘em and treat ’em: VIDEOS, EASTER EGG HUNT, PRIZES AND MORE! Call for reservations: 687-0511 * FREE parking in hotel parkade. Adults: $12.95 a Children: $7.95 B (10 & under) Sheraton-Landmark The nesonatny poeple ot TOT 1600 HORSOES SIREET, VANCOUVER, BHITISH COLUMBIA for your moncy down in Ottawa, The enraged Mrs. Sandra Craig of North Vancouver scored a nice hit. Her ancestors were Druids, she yelled, and come the next election she would bring the Druids back. The audience went wild. That's it, Sandra. Let’s have a Druids’ Party, We'll all look great in Druid dress. But I fear that by that time the next election comes, Ottawa will have let in so many phoney refugees, illegai im- Migrants and othe: friends of Ot- tawa that we'll be outnumbered. Not content with making an ass of himself over Druids, Benno had acolumn of mine in front of him in which | had written, he claimed, that we shouldn't let in people from the Third World because “they have nothing to offer." My response ws that was: “Mr, Friesen is a professor of English who can't read English. | challenge him to read that out right now."' | was on safe ground, of course, because although | am no professor | would never be dumb enough to write anything like that, So Benno had to sit there with egg on his face. And that's the way she went, folks. | was delighted that 700 people saw the fun, including Jack Davis, Mary Collins and Ray Per- rault, Will they inform Brian Baloncy that the natives are rest- less? For it is my belief that the response would be the same anywhere in the country. You can see the fun yourself on Shaw Cable, April 8 at 4 p.m., April 1 at 7 p.m. and April 13 at 8:30 p.m. And thanks, Chuck. @ More on the immigration debate, see page 14. JAPANESE AZALEAS Bushy Plants ready to bloom PERENNIALS & HEATHER They bloom year after year 1.79 ea. or OPEN 9 AM OPEN 9 AM 9. Wetnesdas, Maret AG, Police seize pot plants WEST VANCOUVER Police reaped a bountiful harvest: of con- traband plants Friday after check- ing a car wailing in line for a B.C. ferry at Horseshoe Bay. Charges are pending against a 34-year-old man after police seized a car toad of 50 pot plants at ap- proximately 10 p.m., March 25. 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