A8 - Sunday, August 5, 1984 - North Shore News R. Collins is on a quest. He’s trying to find out how Dave Brousson, Pau! Manning, or anyone else who hasn’t had his snout in the trough could possibly run as a Liberal candidate in this election. One can understand the lona Campagnolos and the Francis Foxes and the Lloyd Axworthys. They would run under the Liberal banner evenif A Groucho Marx were leading the party. But why anyone with the slightest in- terest in the welfare of English Canada would want to get his hands dirtied that way I’m damned if | know. | just can’t understand it. ] can understand the Tories, for instance. They may not be God’s gift to the people but they are not directly responsible for turn- ing us into national midgets, though they have acquiesced in much of that process. I can understand the NDP. They may be a bit loony, believing as they do that BS mailbox [><| there’s a pot of gold buried at the end of the rainbow, and if they only get a chance to turn the country into one big post office, everyone will live hap- pily ever after. But the Liberals and their supporters outside of French Canada stump me, consider- ing what has happened in the past 16 years. Seeking enlightenment, | turned to the transcript of their Fuehrer’s final speech, the one his putrescent party cheered him for in Ottawa after he had taken that walk in the snow prior to taking his final walk. It didn’t help much, except as confirmation of how great a hypocrite the guy was. That wouldn't matter a lot, he be- ing gone. But Liberals do not renounce him, except in- directly and vaguely. At that » Liberal leadership conven- get this oy Doug Collins fhere, oh where has the true tion, Trudeaumania still lived. Here is Trudeau talking about his predecessor: ‘“‘Then there was Lester Pearson, who with all his love and knowledge, gave us Medicare and the Canada Assistance Plan. But he also taught the world and taught the United Nations the way of peacekeeping.”’ How’s that — for a guy who once denounced Pearson as ‘‘the unfrocked priest of peace ’’? And you probably weren’t aware of how we got the so- called Charter of Rights, the document that gives judges. the powers that parliaments should have. Here is Trudeau’s explana- tion of how it came into being: ‘“‘We said to the people: ‘Forget the powers that the premiers want, and forget the powers that the _ federal government wants to keep. Do you want a constitution of your own? Do you want us to patriate it? Do you want a charter of rights? And the people said yes! And that’s how we got it.’ ”’ Bloody marvellous. The truth is that the people yawn- ed their way through the whole thing, weren’t- con- sulted, and wouldn’t have been listened to even if they had been, any more than they have been listened to on anything. That was one reason why the builmanure phrase ‘‘participatory democracy’ didn’t last for more than one election. According to Trudeau, you people demanded that you go first class in all this, and he responded. In fact, however, the only people who ever went first class were he and his cabinet. He and his kids went all over the world first class at our expense, and cabinet ministers like Otto Lang went first class with nursemaids. 1 really liked the bit about She used dangerous judgement Dear Editor: Too bad about Skeeter, the gentle-jawed Doberman, who got shot for giving two peo- ple mere love bites (‘‘scrat- ches on one arm and another had a pant leg ripped’’) and then sending four people scrambling to the top of a car and then attacking the policeman who had answered everybodys calls for help. A dog owner who leaves a Doberman unleashed in an open convertible in a parking lot is guilty of most incon- siderate and dangerous judgement. Willing to help Dear Editor: Lets be reasonable here There have been lots of beautiful sunshine girls, but don’t you think we could be little bit more fair? Give us women something to look at) My f{nends and 1 think its about time we had alternate weeks, male then female There must be lots of will ing males out there on the North Shore ready to pose, give us some males in skimpys. We want something to look ftorward to as well. There's a lot of women who think the same if you don’t get many candidates Ill per sonally go out and get them for you Katrina Walker North Van Bring in : our colour ~A, public apology woyld have been more in order than an announcement of a law suit , and an accusation that the injured people had 445 13th St. West Van 926-8922 print film for ~ processing and we'll give you a Pocket Photo Album to show off your Prime Shots! BONUS ALBUM , Satteae te ee BEST BUY 12” Black & tyPrcosytercd | i Ch mh =m am —_ = wa! af BARRY’S DRUG MART WESTVIEW SHOPPING CENTRE NORTH VANCOUVER : ES. 1 oe 1820 LONSDALE \ os NORTH VAN, misbehaved in front of the dog. George S. 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