Doug CoLLins

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HAVE YOU been singing any Christmas carols? Be careful.
You may offend someone, and these days it is the earnest
ambition of every properly liberal citizen rot to offend

anyone.

After Montreal, one hesitates to
menticn women in any critical
sense. To do so is to be branded a
killer, potential killer, or en-
courager of killers. But one must
take the risk. So here's the story.

The Vancouver Council of
Women met recently to discuss
whatever it is that they discuss.
And according to a lady named

Eleanor L. Hadley, who was there,

crops up once in the fourth verse.
Where giving offence is concerned,
one can’t be too careful.

These tidings of small joy would
be easier to understand if they
flowed from the Vancouver Status
of Women or some other loony
left-wing lot. But the Vancouver
Council of Women is not of that
ilk. Most of its member groups
come from churches and are long-

ce
T, is almost as if the Imperial Order,

Daughters of the Empire, had gone
commie, or taken to rolling around in the
gutters, drunk. So we can see that the
liberal cancer is an incurable disease, and
that we might as well tell the doctor there is
nothing he can do.”’

it was announced that there would
be no singing of traditional
Christmas carols because that
MIGHT OFFEND SOME PEO-
PLE. The assembled company
would therefore SING ONLY
THE JINGLES,

This meant that stuff like Hark
The Herald Angels Sing, Away In
a Manger, and O Come, All Ye
Faithful were seen as dangerous,
possibly verging on hate literature,
while jingles were safe.

Jingle Bells would be OK, that

~ being at the top of the jingle list,
as would Deck the Hall With
Boughs of Folly (sorry, Holly!),
plus Rudolph the Red-Nosed
Reindeer.

But wait! Rudolph may be out,
too, since the word Christmas

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standing relics of respectability. A
Holly and Ivy bunch. Ladies!

It is almost as if the Imperial
Order, Daughters of the Empire
had gone commie, or taken te roll-
ing around in the gutters, drunk.
So we can see that the liberal
cancer is an incurable disease, and
that we might as well teli the doc-
tor there is nothing he can do.

As I pointed out a couple of
years ago, most members of
parliament no longer send out
Christmas cards. What you get
from them is a Happy Holiday
card. Mary Collins is big on those.
Or was. Haven’t seen her latest ef-
fort.

Up on Grouse Mountain, they
used to show a huge illuminated
cross at Christmas time. It too has

gone. Let's not offend anybody
except ourselves?

Many public buildings and
schools once had illuminated na-
tivity displays. They too are gone.
Pakistani parents and others might
not like them.

All of which is not surprising. In
1982, your enterprising reporter
attended a national multicult con-
ference in Vancouver where
Christmas figured on the hit list.
The big speech was made by a Mr.
Israel Ludwig of Winnipeg, a
biggy in the immigration industry.

Ludwig came out foursquare
against all Christian holidays. His
idea was that they should be neu-
tralized. ‘‘Lawyer would abolish
all religious holidays in fight
against racism,’’ was one of the
newspaper headlines I saved for
posterity, so that our descendents
would perceive, through a glass
darkly, how they fost their
heritage.

He and others were almost
against the Lord’s Day Act, which
has duly gone the way of all flesh.
Truth to tell, I didn’t much like the
thing myself, but that’s not the
point.

What is the point? Listen to
Malcolm Muggeridge: ‘‘The pro-
cess of death-wishing, in the guise
of liberalism, has been eroding the
civilization of the West for a cen-
tury or more.

“The liberal mind, whether in
power or opposition, has provided
the perfect instrument.
Systematically, stage by stage,
dismantling our Western way of
life, depreciating and deprecating
all its values so that the whole
social structure is now tumbling
down, dethroning its God, under-
mining all its certainties. And all
this, wonderfully enough, in the
name of the health, wealth and
happiness of all mankind.”’

Oh well. We are still allowed a
jingle or two.

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