THE OFFICE came on the blower last Monday to ask whether I. would like to attend an editorial gab-session with Mary Collins, the MP. And so it came about that face-to-face encounter. No big deal, you may say, But it was, because J am the creator of the Mary Collins Golden Turkey Awards, which are presented in this space in honor _of the worst speech ever made in Parliament. Not only that, but if I have ever had & good word to say fot her in her role as a peo- ple's tribune | forget when it was. It’s never too late to mend, though, so Iet me say a good word now. Mrs. Collins has aplomb, poise and all that sort of thing. Yes, she greeted me as if I were her long-lost dog, in fact. ‘‘Hello...Doug. Good to see you."’ J half expected to be swept into her lap, but it didn't get that far. Could there be an election coming, that the politicians are - $0 cager to meet their ‘persecutors? Our guest’ $ guess ‘was that the prime minister would choose the fall, But she ‘admitted she had no real answer. And that’s the trouble. She has no real answers, Not the -kind | want to hear, anyway, When I told her that at last count 78 per cent of the people _in this country are opposed to Liberal immigration policies that have been slavishly followed by the Tories, she confessed that apart from the refugee, thing no changes were planned And that om she wouldn’t support any. W VD | experiments | ‘From’ page 8 basis of prices ‘subiniited tc to the ‘ “GVRD by Danchip. Once the project is underway, “no ‘licences to’ burn land-clearing ebris will be issued in the district. ‘Backyard: burning. of leaves and ther resident:-yard : flotsam and jetsam was’ banned in the district about two years, ago.’ ~ Collins met Collins in what you might call their first The Tory women of her own constituency may have demanded that the prime minister act on the recommendations of the Im- migration Association of Canada and stop bringing hordes of non- whites into this country, but they won't get much change out of Mary. She told me that the numbers were small anyway (135,000 newcomers are to be admitted this year, which is not small by my count) and that Ottawa wanted to be ‘‘fair and non- discriminatory’’ to everyone. When | retorted that we are discriminating against people from the U.K. and Europe she smiled her fetching smile and said it wasn’! so. I pointed out that the ‘family reunification’ policy is geared to favor the demands of immigrants from India, China, the West In- dies, etc., and effectively bars what Mr. Charles Campbell has called ‘‘desirable immigrants*’ from elsewhere. She looked blank. On to South Africa and sanc- tions. Why the hell, I asked her in some dudgcon, should she and the prime minister tell me | can’t buy South African wine? Who is running this country’s South African policy anyway? Stephen Lewis, the socialist that Mulroney has appointed to the ULN.? Not at all, she said sweetly. As for sanctions, they are designed to improve the situation in South Africa by persuading Pretoria it is on the wrong course. Well what about Alan Paton, 1 asked, author of Cry, The Beloved Country? He says sanc- tions are hurting the blacks, the very people we claim we want to help. And why are we so hypocritical? Don’t we buy ferro-chrome from South Africa, that stuff being necessary for our auto industry? So gimme my wine back. {t was like trying to run up Everest. She looked mystified, too, when I said that Mulroney's buddy Oliver Tambo, the head of the revolutionary African Na- tional Congress, is a communist and that the ANC dances to Moscow's tune. The ANC’s statements bulge with commie jargon about ‘‘the liberation struggle’* and “American imperialism." anything about Soviet im- perialism, of course. And Tambo Never has praised the USSR dozens of ~ times for the wonderful help he is getting from Moscow for his murderous methods in South Africa. Ottawa's stance and Mrs, Col- lins’s responses remind me of the war in Vietnam, when the tren- dies insisted on the North's ‘just cause’’ and the South’s dictatorship, When | had at her over our support of states like Mozambi- que she said that that country was “not really” communist. The inind boggles, as they say. There was more. 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