low many other jokes

does Mulroney know?

WHEN THE people of this
couniry wise up, they may
get the vote. Meanwhile,
with the next election in
wind, the most despised
man in the country sets up
a royal commission to hear
‘‘what the public really
thinks” and to show how
humble he is.

How many other jokes does he
know?

The truth is that unless we get a
people’s veto over what our con-
niving politicians are up to, we
will continue to run in panic from
one side of the political sheep
pasture to the other.

What is needed is a Swiss-style
system of government in which we
can stop Ottawa’s clownishness
through referendums and initia-
tives. And don’t bank on the
Reform Party doing it. Two years
ago, Preston Manning showed in
Howe Sound-Capilano how much
he loves the ‘‘grass roots.’’

We are governed by cynics and
elitists. Right now, onc lot is
headed by Brian Mulroney. Next
time it will be another lot headed
by Jean Chretien. You know all
about the first guy. For evidence
on the second, look to the Liberal
past and to Chretien’s promise to
ditch the GST.

He says he has now made his
mind up. But he will unmake it in
a jitfy if it suits hime to do so.
And you won’t be consulted.

Nor is the NDP any better. It
too believes that the peasants
should be held at arm’s length.
Wasn't it the NDP that wiped out
school board referendums in
B.C.?

Our way of government is ar-
chaic. We have a one-day
democracy on election day.
Thereafter, we are considered to
be too dumb to know what is
good for us.

We are ignored on every count
that matters. French on the corn-
flakes boxes and all its attendant
ills? Nobody bothered to ask you
about it. Taxation without real

Doug
Collins

ON THE OTHER HAND

representation? We have it.

Do Mary Collins and Chuck
Cook fight the GST, knowing as
they do that the people who sent
them to Ottawa hate it? And did
you have any control over the
drunken-sailor waste that is
leading to that grab?

Kings have lost their heads for
doing what Collins, Cook and
their fellow-conspirators are do-
ing. And it is the same right
through Ottawa. The McDougall
woman’s immigration program is
a case in point.

Polls taken even before she told
us we were to be swamped by
more Third Worlders showed that
46 per cent of Canadians wanted
immigration levels to be reduced,
not increased. Another 35 per cent
wanted them to remain the same.
In short, 81 per cent were saying
NO.

The program rolls on
regardless. Never mind. You can
tell Keith Spicer and Jack Webster
about it. And a fat lot of good
that will do.

They do things differently in
Switzerland, and have done ever
since 1874. There, the voters and
the provinces can challenge any
fedcral jegislation or initiate new
measures.

There have been referendums
on refugezs and dozens of other

issues. Last year there was a ref-
erendum on conscription, The
people voted to retain it. There
has even been one on animal
tights, and the squalid battery-hen
farming is being phased out.

Switzerland isn’t the only place
where the people control the poli-
iicians.

In Australia, all constitutional
amendments are put to the voters.
Compare that with Trudeau’s
screw-you antics and the Brian
Mularky Show in which a handful
of politicians did a deal in some-
one’s kitchen on the Meech Lake
plot.

Since 1974, the Italians have
also gone the referendum way.
That was how they made divorce
legal. In the U.S., 26 states have
the referendum.

Meanwhile, our *‘repre-
sentatives’’ scheme, wheel, and
deal. And sneer, jeer or smear
when we complain. Or toss us a
royal commission. As for the GST
‘*debate’’ in the Senate, it is just
another act in the Parliamentary
Pantomime. What they da they
can undo.

Canadians know it. The Globe
& Mail-CBC poll published last
week showed that 78 per cent of
use have no confidence in the pol-
iticians.

Seventy-two per cent say that
the politicians don’t care what the
man in the street thinks. Ninety-
thre. per cent say the whole
system of government needs an
overhaul.

Next time your MP cuddles up
for your vote, ask him whether he
stands for a binding referendum
system, If he waffles, vote for
someone else and let him know
why. Because even if the other
guy believes that he tov is nothing
less than God's Word, you will
have lost nothing.

The only way to make
Tweedledum see sense is to throw
out Tweedledee, and let him know
why. Then, one day, you may get
the vote.

The longest march begins with a
single step.

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