THIS (S amazing, watching the Torics try to ‘‘puila Clinion,”’ even if they're running against themselves. Nota single policy has chang- ed, or is likely to change. Yet here we are being treated to the spec- tacle of Kim Campbell, former Socred, and current Tory Minister of Defence, being mass-marketed as some kind of Joni Mitchell! from the Summer of Love. Whoever is masterminding her campaign (the same guy, actually, who ran John Crosbie’s bid for power against Brian Mulroney a jong time ago) has come up with the idea of selling a brand new kind of Tory Icader. This is what.you'd call a spin. This is a real spin. This is an awesome spin.. Politics is, of course, pro- duct-marketing, and never more so than now." That’s how the Americans fight their clectora! sivil wars, and one thing Brian Mulroney has always been is a student of American pal- itics, so much so, I believe, that his sellout of Canada never seem- ed like that big a deal to him. It was just good business-as- usual.’Thus, the pharmaceutical multinationals got their way. . Thus, American conglomerates got guaranteed access to Canadian " resources. , my f Thus, the oil industry continues to he subsidized and defended. T hus, our military becomes a division of the Washington-con- trolled NAFTA Armed Forces. Given this state of affairs, all thanks tojthe policies of the Pro- o pressive Conservative Party of « Canada, my breath was quite “ “a taken away by the audacity of Kim Campbell’s handlers in han- ding out an old black-and-white still of her plunked down on the giass in Stanley Park in The Six- ties (at least, that’s what it looked like, and that’s what counts), plinking Joan Baez-like on a ’ guitar.” A little too coy to be truly J arvis blasts “THE PROVINCIAL gov- ernment is wasting $250,000 “of taxpayers’ money to provide funding. for people ‘and ‘groups wanting to at- dend the Kemano Comple- tion Review, North Van- couver-Seymour MLA Daniel Jarvis, the Liberal’s. energy, mines -and.pet-. roleum resources ‘critic said on Tuesday, April 6. “The NDP government is will- ing to shéll out a quarter of a mil- .Yion dollars to pay people to take ‘part.in a review that has no legal authcrity .to change anything,” "said Jarvis. ; | .. BARBARA. DAHL euT “BARBIE DOLL” TO WORK FOR YOU 983-2518 Bob Hunter STRICTLY PERSONAL buzzed, but maybe just high on the joy of being lucky enough to live in the Flower Child Era... " ¥es, that’s it! They are trying to - sell Kim Campbell as a flower - child all growed up and wearing a suit, and speaking francaise, 100, ch? Pretty fancy. But, wait a minute, let’s get this in context! . { don’t know how many articles \’ve read on the phenomenon of today’s teenagers being bummed out en masse because they've grown up living in the shadow of The Sixties. The Sixties are viewed through the eyes of these kids as some © kind of Golden Age where everyone ran around naked, and got wrecked, and had sex, and listened to incredibly loud music by jegendary maniacs, and didn’t get AIDS! My 14-year-old son (an expert on what it’s like to be a teenager these days) confirms the mythologization by his generation of that seemingly (to them) long- ago ‘‘psychedelic Camelot.” By comparison, the era they have grown up in has been pinch- ed, and tight-assed, and ultra- conservative. It was Reaganism, ' Thatcherism, and, yes indeed, Mulroneyism., It has been a grim time to be a kid, a period of neo-Victorianism, never mind neo-conservatism. About the only major innova- tion is that they can now . sublimate through interactive TV to the point of nearly total psychic numbness. They are also now being told they’re going to have to wear Sunblock 20-plus every summer day for the rest of their lives. Although, of course (before | get carried away snivelling about their plight), they're not worrying about being nuked by the weekend. Their fate, instead, is 4 long, slow nuking, because the stuff pouring through the rusting ozone layer is indeed radiation. It seems like I'm digressing, but ‘Pm not. This ail ties together. ' Kim Campbell has to be exam- ined, I say, as the front-person for a very clever cabal of Tory in- siders who have done nothing when it comes to the major prob- lem of our time, namely the destruction of the environment. t's actually not the economy, stupid. It’s the ecology. It galls me that the Tories might get away with cynically manipu- lating (1 guess that's redundant) the nostalgia of the mid-life gen- eration, while at the same time playing to the fantasies of the un- fortunate young. But, of course, this is the nature of the beast. Play dirty. Win. - T mean, making Kim Campbell out to be the reincarnation of Maggie Trudeau is too bloody much! But that’s part of the reso- nance being set in motion by her handlers, don’t kid yourself otherwise. Luckily, we media arc here on guard to make sure she doesn’t get away with pretending to speak for her generation. 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