YOU ARE now doing your
best to recover from 1994,
and with good reason. So
here are some more quotes

~ from the year that just died.
Some funny, some not. But

all of them food for thought.

You don't even speak French.
You should stay home. —— Open-
line caller to Preston Manning; in
Montreal,

I'm glad to be out of Ottawa,
3,000 miles from Sheila Copps. —
Kim Campbell.

You have to go to the post office
and be interviewed by a Chinese or
an Indian, I'm not particularly
racist but I find that ludicrous. —
Dame Joan Sutherland, the
Australian opera star.

’ We are in hock up to our eye-
balls. That can’t be sustained. ~—- °
Finance Minister Paul Martin; giv-
ing us the gears again.

Words, words, words, —- The
Bloc Quebecois’ Lucien Bouchard;
replying to Martin.

Doing it in the 90s. — Title of a
booklet on which the Ottawa has
spent half a million bucks. Reform
MP Myron Thompson said it was

. nothing more than a sex recipe for
gay men. (Mr. Martin, meet Mr.

_ Thompson. He may be able to help

. you.)

None of us really knew what we
were doing. We just seemed to issue
cheques or hire people. If there was

some up-and-comer ... who might

- become a threat, we would hire
him. — Civil servant Brian

--Melnnis; blowing the whistle on .
ithe Multicult Department. (Another
chance for Mr. Martin. }

“Churchill must be turning in his
rave, — War veteran; on Sir»
Winston Churchill School’s teach-

_ ,ers‘and kids deciding not to buy
Remembrance Day poppies.

lackey. night for Canada, —

Headline in the Vancouver Sun on

ON THE OTHER HAND |

Racial intolerance is all around
us. We just have to read a certain
individual's column in the newspa-
per. — North Van District social
planner Erica Bell-Lowther. (And a
Happy New Year to you, too,
sweetheart.)

He hides behind freedom of
speech, — Canadian Jewish
Congress spokesman Michael
Elterman; proving that your man’
Doug can do the impossible.

World peace eludes world body.
— Headline in Globe and Mail.
(Give us some news, please.)

Tax money spent on teaching a
child the basics of English is less
money spent ona child who
already speaks Engiish. — Letter

to editor,

Those academies in Victoria
have never had any rain in their
lunch-buckets. That's why they are
so keen on conservation. — Mayor
Gerry,Furney of Port McNeil.

Gutsy, eccentric newspaper edi-
tors have been replaced by a gen-
eration born to be mild. They
stoked but th ey never inhaled, —

Professor Kes Jowitt of the

the morning of the ‘day that saw our -/’ University. ‘of California,

biggest riot.
;

Public. opinion shouldn ‘dictate

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immigration policy. — limmigration
Minister Sergio Marchi; on hearing
from the Reform party’s Art
Hauger that most Canadians want
fewer immigrants.

-A-million Arabs are not worth a
single Jewish fingernail. — Israeli
rabbi; after the death of the man
who killed 30 Arabs in the Hebron
mosque.

At the sound of the beep, seize
this tape. — Editorial headline in

‘the Globe; on the idiocies of the

Canadian Human Rights
Commission in going after people
who put “hate messages” on their
phones.

The first catamaran should be
called The Spirit of Glen Clark, —
Jack Weisgerber. of the Reform
party; on NDP cabinet minister
Clark's plan to spend another $800
million on the ferry system.

Being attacked by the leader of
the Opposition is a bit like being
called ugly by a toad. — Glen
Clark; on Liberal leader Gordon
Campbell.

They are neither new nor demo-
cratic but they are a purty. - North
Shore MLA David Mitchell on the
NDP.

If you had an election in Kruger
Park, who would win? The
antelopes, because they are in the
majority, But would the lions
accept it? — Chairman of the
Kaffir River Farmers Union in
South Africa; on how the white:
right is preparing to resist the new
government. .

They wanted me to be a janitor.
opening the door with a polite bow.
— Former Immigration and
Refugee Board member Paidraig
O’Donahue, Q.C.; on his disgust at
the refugee policies of the IRB

bosses in Ottawa. -

And now for 1995, which.
should provide even better fodder.
Especially from the B.C. Human
Rights Council and its buddies, if -
you know what I mean. ;

Have a good one.

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Praise for White

Dear Editor:

Being a government politi-
cian is nat an easy job. I, for one,
am the first to admit that and ask:
Who do we put into power who
will get the job done and clean
up this country’s mess?

I have had the pleasure of
dealing with North Vancouver
MP Ted White in my riding.

in his dealings with my situa-
tion I have not been sidestepped,
brushed off, patronized or lied

to,

I find Mr, White to be honest.
forthright, sincere, helpful and -
caring.

! have tearned a valuable fes-’.
son. It is important to get to
know the person you are voting .
for -- someday you may need
help. i

Will he or she have these’
qualities? i
Barbara Mayer
North Vancouver ~

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