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Strictly personal

by Bob Hunter

O. IT IS THE EVE of ‘the election. The
Liberals lie at our feet, bleeding horribly,
awaiting only the quick thrust of a ballot
pencil driven through their hearts to put them out

of their misery.

l intend to bring my own pen-
cil sharpener into the booth,
just to make sure. A tingle of
political sadism grips me. It’s
sure gonna feel good, driving
in that pencil.

As 1 contemplate = this
wonderful act of fevenge call-
ed voting, I find myself
thinking back over a few of
the more glaring Liberal
atrocities that have turned
me, normally a mild-
mannered, left-leaning eco-
hawk, into somebody
who’s going to vote with a
mad laugh for the official
opposition.

The face of Bob Kaplan,
eyes narrow, face puffy with
arrogance, flickers before
me. Ah _ yes, Kaplan, the
solicitor-general who should
have been charged with
treason for creating a
‘‘civilian’’ secret police force
immune from parliamentary
control, free to bug and loot
the homes of citizens whose
civil rights have been gang-
raped.

I see Monseigneur Trudeau
in the House of Commons on
the last day, ranting that he
would never hft a finger to
correct the injustice of the
wartime roundup of Cana-
dian citizens of Japanese
descent.

Why not? We all knew.
Trudeau had wielded the War
Measures Act himself. And
he never really recovered
from those few giddy weeks
of being an actual dietator in
a police state. I trace his real
corruption to that.

Yes. And then there’s his
paradise-lost Charter of
Rights and Freedoms, a
Magna Carta fashioned out

of loopholes. How could any
document that begins with

the word ‘‘whereas’’ ever be
trusted?
Look at the charter

carefully and you notice there
is a massive Catch-22 built in-
te-the core of its memory
bank, so to speak. Every
single one of its inalienable
rights can be alienated at the
whim of the federal cabinet,
which means the Prime
Minister, by virtue of a sim-
ple order-in-council.

It is the imperial powers of
Ottawa that have been cast in
cement by the Trudeau
Charter, not the freedoms of
the citizenry. 1 remind you
that the book simply listing
the code numbers of all the
federal statutes that govern
our lives is six inches thick!

When I think about the
Liberals, 1 think about the
Keith Davey/Jimmy Coutts
strategy of ambushing Joe
Clark in Ontario with the
promise of cheap gas, writing
Western Canada off as a
dead zone. Great realpolitik!
But unforgiveable.

I still smart from the insult
of coming home from the
polling station to find out the
election was over by the time
they counted the ballots in
Kenora.

Let’s
Politics

not kid ourselves.
is aS emotional as
family. Snubs are felt
forever. Ignored invitations
remembered. For all the sur-
face apathy, I know from
talking to people that this is
the most emotional election
in living memory.
Fingering my pencil
sharpener, I think about Sim-
ma Holt on the parole board.

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I think about patronage.

think about the Senate. 1 field to Lonsdale), 17th St:
think particularly about that (Ches ter field to St.
old rowing buddy of George’s), Eastern Ave.

(iSth to 16th St.) / Civic
Awards Dinner for long ser-
vice employees / Conference
of Western Canadian Cities
Personnel Officers / Rezon-
ing in 200bIk. East 23rd St. /
Family suite application,
2141 Grand Boulevard /
Rezoning in 2200 bik. Grand
Boulevard / Rezoning ap-
plication, 17th St. and Fell
Avenue / Limiting use of
shopping carts / Preparation
of municipal electors list.

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Trudeau’s who is living very
well, thank you, off those
taxes I pay until July before I
can start working for myself.

As a man who loves ships
and has belatedly learned in
life that you’ve got to keep
your guard up otherwise so-
meone’s going to kick sand in
your face, | weep when 1
think about the fate of the
Canadian Navy. I never get
seasick but | do get nausea
when | listen to the current
defence minister, Jean-
Jacques Blaise, talking about
how he’s busy saving the
navy. From whom? We know
from whom.

Ah yes. The metric system.
For every time I had to pull
my hair out in fury trying to
figure out how much
something weighed, how far |
was from home, or at least
how much I! was being
cheated at the pump, I plunge
thee, ballot pencil, deep,
deep into the still-pulsating
heart of the Liberal Party of
Canada and all its minions.
Ahhbhh!

put your waste

a diet
RECYCLE

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beating heart

e by 7 weeks has clear-
ly recognizable hands
and feet

* by 12 weeks kicks,
sucks her thumb,
swallows, urinates
and is SENSITIVE TO
PAIN

“The implied charge that LGH doctors
are conniving at abortion as a simple
alternative to contraception or old.
tashioned chastity can’t be ignored... why
are North Shore abortions over three
times the national average and nearly one
third higher than the provinclal average?”

Editorial North Shore News,

Mar 28, 1984

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