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Let’s play Iraqi and
Indians for a change

iF OUR native Indian
neighbors don’t soon
smarten up, they're going to
lose what titde support and
sympathy they might have
left in Canada.

What's that? They say they
have a lot of support in Eurcpe?
Great! How soon can they pack
their bags? No, they don’t have to
go by way of the Bering Strait.
I'm sure there'll be plenty of
room on those returning planes
and ships dumping all those
phoney refugees on our shores.

Or better yet! How about this?
Our Indians seem to enjoy playing
with loaded guns a lot, and spew-
ing forth a daily, tiresome, tan-
trumic tirade of pompous and
preposterous chailenges in the face
of greater and stronger numbers.
So why not turn this energy force
and source to our advantage and
ship them over to the Persian
Gulf? Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Let’s play traqi and Indians for a
change. Us cowboys need a rest.

Well, they couldn't do much
worse than our old antique and
rusty-bucket navy or suicide air-
force, could they? Heck, J’d just
bet that they all wore Mohawk-
issue hankies over their mouths
(to keep out the desert sands, of
course) and grit and grind their
teeth a lot (the sand might help) in
eyeball-to-eyeball enemy en-
counters, they just might even
scare ol’ satanic Saddam right out
of his Iraqi army issue jockstrap
and jockey shorts.

Aww, sure, we could give ’em a
few gas masks. But if I] were
them, I'd first check for any
**Made in Quebec”’ labels. And }
sure wouldn’t wear any ‘‘Surete
du Quebec”’ issue. Unh, uh!!

Of course they'd have to take
their women and children along
for protection. Who else would
they put between themselves and
the enemy? You could call it their
own Oka-Seton-Portage ‘‘Desert
Shield.’’ We'd have to shell out
for the extra fares, but I think we
could handle it. On the family
plan.

Yes, you’re right. That would
leave a lot of empty reservations.
But what the hey! We could turn
all that into golf courses. I bet we
could even make a tidy profit sell-
ing memberships in Tokyo.

Have you any idea what it costs
to join a club and play golf in
Japan? Scary! We might even set-
tle Canada’s national debt this
way, with enough left over to
retire Brian and Mila to a nice lit-
tle island somewhere. There could
be one available near Kuwait.

OUT OF THE NORM

Of course we can't promise ta
provide our Indian lads with any
homes of innocent people to
pillage and plunder, trash and
loot. Oh, maybe one or two. The
Saudis have bags of money, and
surely they must know that boys
will be boys.

Perhaps they could slip over the
border into Kuwait every now and
then and pretend to be Iraqis.
That way they could trash and
loot to their heart's content. I
don’t know about shooting and
killing a cop, however. Unless it
was an Iraqi cop. That might be
OK. Especially inside Kuwait.
We'll sce. But killing a Kuwaiti by
mistake could be a diplomatic
problem. But, hey, what's a little
mistake? They’re Indians, and not
accountable to any laws but their
own! Right?!

And wouldn’t our Indians just
be great on that truck and trans-
port road in Jordan, from the Red
Sea to the Iraqi border? Heck,
they could set up all kinds of
blockades ulong the way. They've
had lots of practice this summer.
Training, raring, and ready to go.
Seasoned veterans all,

And as for those refugees in
Jordan, we could also give them a
big helping hand. Now thai the
rent-a-camp protest club has at
long last vacated the Vancouver
courthouse grass (oops, make that
the lahdy-dah ahht gallery lawn —
we wouldn’t want any dopey con-
nections here, now would we?) by
way of the Blatherwick bug
brigade (or bug-mug squad, if you
prefer; check your local TV
listings for the special movie com-
ing out soon), there’s lots of help
available.

We can now send ali those silly
little boys and girls over to the
magic kingdom of Hussein-land to
show them Jordanites how it’s all

Limited quantities and sizes

properly donc.

Of course the gallery's head
wimp Willy Holmes would also
have to tag along. Afterall, some-
one has to look after the latrines
{Silly Willy thinks the campers did
a wonderful job in the gallery loo
-- of course he didn't potl the
membership to inquire how they
might enjoy sharing their loo with
the unwashed) (and did vou know
that this jerk even had a large
banner hanging from the art
gallery roof for several days pro-
claiming the site as “Indian
land?"') (he never gave a thought
for the precedent he’s now set}.

OK, so maybe I'm a little per-
turbed and cheesed-off.

But for the life of me, I cannot
begin to understand how our
native neighbors can even begin to
believe that they can achieve any-
thing positive, good, meaningful,
or of any real value whatsoever by
adopting and undertaking a course
of anarchy, terrorism, and vio-
lence.

Their head honcho George
Erasmus says they're going to
**bring Canada to its knees."” Oh,
yeah?! Someone ought to cut dear
old Georgie boy off at his knees,
or perhaps at the neck. Along
with that sweetie-pie Ellen Gabriel.

Canada’s native Indian leaders
speak with a tongue today more
forked than the dinner table at a
Shriners convention. And it would
also seem they have mastered the
Mussolini method of posturing.
They and their left-wing do-
gooder, bleeding-heart liberal
toadies knowingly champion
known criminals. They defend
their crimes. They shamefully give
their unquaiified support to ter-
rorism, anarchy, violence, crime,
pillage, plunder, and murder.
They applaud those who spit in
Canada’s face while sucking hard
on Canada’s tit.

What has pillage, plunder, and
murder to do with native claims
for land and justice? Land claims?
Hah! What never was can never
be. It’s illegal activities such as

. gambling and smuggling that they
really want to protect in Quebec.
Why hide behind a mask,
disguise, and silly names if you're
only and really a — ahem! —
“warrior?!”

God knows the native Indian
people have reasons for seeking
justice to right previous wrongs.
But what I would like to see and
hear for once is Canada’s native
people accepting and acknowledg-
ing a major measure of responsi-
bility for their situation and con-
dition.

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Wednesday, September 19, 1990 - North Shore News ~ 9

Man jailed
for assault

A 19-YEAR-OLD North — Van-
couver man was sentenced Sept. 4
to four months in jail for an
assault incident.

Joel David Bremner was found
guilty in North Vancouver provin-
cial court of assaulting a@ man on
Nov. 1, 1989.

Judge D.R. Campbell recom.
mended that Bremner serve his
sentence at the New Haven Cor-
reclional Centre.

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JACK DAVIS Reports
By the Hon. Jack Davis, MLA
North Vancouver -Seymour

Acid Mine Drainage;
A Challenge and an Opportunity

Concerns about the environment prompted my Ministry, Energy, Mines and
Petroleum Resources, to take a Jorg, hard look at drainage from oid, aban-
doned mine sites in BC. Brittania Howe Sound is one example. Mt.
Washington on Vancouver Island is another. The six-month study will be car-
ried out by private consultants who will be paid trom the government's new
Sustainable Environment Fund. }
The initiative will be coordinated by the BC. Acid Mine Drainage Task Force
which has representatives from my Ministry. the Ministry of Environment and
Environment Canada.

Acid drainage is caused whenever rock containing sulphide minerals is
broken and exposed to air anc water. The sulphides produce sulphuric acid
capable of dissolving metals such as copper and zinc, which can contaminate
the focal groundwater system.

it is a problem usually associated with open pit operations and my Ministry
has worked closely with the federal government and the private sector to
find solutions.

Last November we published a handbook aimed at reducing and treating
acid rock drainage at minesites. The handbook allaws mining companies
and engineering consultants to head off the problem before it starts.

As for new mines: we have initiated a policy which requires companies to
post bonds sufficient to pay for treatment during and after the mine shuts
down. For example, Equity Stlver Mines had to post a $16 million reclama-
tion bond this past January which will cover the projected costs of treating
run-off water from the mine site.

More importanily, my Ministry entorces regulations to protect the anviron-
ment prior to mine development. The Mine Development Review Piocess,
which our government introduced in 1976, involves public agencies, native
groups, municipalities and interested individuats.

Already our Mine Development Review Process has been operative in respect
to 140 mining projects in B.C. to date.

Environmental issues are at the top of our agenda these days. We are leading,
not following. As far as acid mine drainage is concerned we are the flagship
province in Canada. We are world leaders in technology which will protect
our environment in B.C., Canada and elsewhere.

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