A4 - Sunday, April 1, 1984 - North Shore News McCLELLAND SPEECH WV Socreds like the message CONTINUED McCelland said. ‘‘Labour uncertainty in this province cannot be allowed to con- tinue to dull our competitive edge."’ McClelland added while he doubts ernment has any ‘‘quick-fix legislation’’ that could solve the problems, a system of labor-management rela- uonships has to be designed to ‘‘make the parties in- volved act responsibly rather than to limit the extent of that the gov- their irresponsibility after the fact.”’ On the economic § side, McCelland told the Socreds that he would be more than happy to _ see the word discipline. Every once in a while | pre- tend for a few minutes that I'm an alien who has been sent to this planet to check out the inhabitants for possi- ble membership in_ galactic cmilizauon. Either that or [ did some- thing really dumb in a previous lifetime on another, better world and wats sentenc- ed to a reincarnation (please, no more than one!) on Earth to teach me to mend my ways. 1 find it especially useful in elevators or rush-hour sub ways or when | have a tooth ache to concentrate hard on being a visitor from) outer space. The horror of my ac tual physical situation becomes more bearable After all, there's just my cur rent host bodv at stake Nothing important Diring these penods when | have adopted my alicn con scrousness mode of thought | aboul notice things you humans which |) probably wouldn't cath on to so hong as | was absorbed in the | am a home saprens ganic Whatis hardest to swallow about bkarthlings is the fact nobody ss gotag ta believe this out there that vor Cah vert cow Op eons, scrvousty Yor yet all puffed cape ati CO whiihe caprecuredinng vou CeWM PP VIOws ° Nowe tears thhahkes hoa eS Or Sere foi tee OL NE Cope ve ved ree ubve cety bast matstake ary clvthiced Pec dteg Crea OX tN Tes pray ati at Peastasots whratyene ser or. rine Precertes ated tdears riya Po bese ari v trons chnc Tosuanpres Cr rea des Pn an thre miatieosp het Ye Mavise there ten treet ns yee Maayvtse 5 8 thre Tee fiver tm the aur Bare ven worse oa tihe usersx cof a Laster cites wala tis Dag beanie. venabhacotes cof wean apres cot mel samecd plancts cvcry where bi Mad thee ire tet tate cad restraint disappear from the English language. ‘‘But the problem we have is there is an attitude that ignores the fact that the Strategy of our government is starting to work,’’ Mc- Clelland said. *“*We’ve still got a ways to go unul the economy is running on all its cylinders but the engine is running,”’ he said. Faced with the ‘‘new reality’’ of shrinking global demand and fierce com- petution for B.C. products and services, the government has clearly defined its new role, the minister said. “‘We are no longer going to be a top heavy bureaucratic structure, McClelland said. ‘‘The government has become leaner, less intrusive and more productive and we're showing other governements that the trend thought to be irreversible has been stopped.’’ The labor minister said there was good economic News in increased resource activity in coal, gas and oil, in major construction projects, tourism increases and the potential for development of high technology industry in B.C. ‘The time has passed when we as British Colum- bians can sit back in our fat chairs, secure in our knowledge that resource- hungry customers will beat a path to our doors,’’ said McClelland in calling for an Strictly personal by-Bob Hunter Unwordly thoughts OU MIGHT CALL IT a form of medita- tion. Certainly it is an exercise in mental effect) of making people believe thar own thoughts This can be fatal. It can be fatal on a mass basis, too 1 mean, the first thing us superior beings learn in school 1s that a mind ts an im perfect thing. It’s neat. It has a lot of uses, like permitting you to add up rows of figures and invent myths and strum a guitar But you should never trust i oits problem is that wo can’t really be detached § It selects facts’? to fit your biases It twists itself into a pretzel at the whim of your ego it’s really quite an unrehable mechanism This is the measure of how fundamentally flawed = the mind ts tt can play tricks on you In fact, does at all the time What other machine would you tolerate that did that to you? 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