A8 - Wednesday, April 18, 1984 - North Shore News T WAS VERY DISAPPOINTING, get this straight by Doug Collins Where do the land claim payouts end? that demonstration against the well-known bigot that took place last Saturday outside the North Shore news. Only 75 people, according to BCTV, and even that estimate was probably a bit bloated. Stull, we must be gratetul It was better than being ig- nored entirely, even though the loonies, commiues, gullibles and other pimple- heads who turned up were the same old rent-a-crowd that has been following) me around for years. It was also disappointing that the television people gave the great event such scant space Surely | deserve more than that, after all my hard work But the item was on and off the screen betore you could say “scoundrel”, and | was lett sobbing with frustravion Pretty shabby treatment, if vou ask me, considering that I] am one of the few honest trotters left) Stall, it was nice of the news editors to let the camera dwell lovingly on a placard reading: **Down with the Bigot’ MAKE A STAND All as not lost, however 1 may even get national atten ton again, the Globe & Mail having rung twice for com ment, of which they got plen ty My only fear is that they won't run all the nice juicy quotes | gave them One of my milder remarks, }recall, was that we wouldn't v9? @& % An > 3750 SUNBRIDGE «« $86,900 | 30° Us ‘o wow $49,900 ' ' 3270 EXPLORER . $84,900 $2’ ENNOS SAPPHInt . $69,500 _ POWER ' 34 900 ry 800 44 900 4A 9G A VOL spent GM 1, Got oF Pot 14 DO, ra BOC be getting screwed so much on the Indian front if so many of our politicians and media weren't so chicken-(bleep). Any day now, | said, we would wake up to find that we had been robbed of Stanley Park and that it was once again a thriv- ing midden What caused all this tuss, in case you've forgotten, was a column ino which | was critical of the Ambleside Park giveaway By today’s sily standards, anyone who dares to question a thing ike that must be a racist) But the time has come to make a stand, and the Indian land Claims and most of the ‘*Farst Nations” ot out lunacies rob constitute larger national two They are also potentially ruinous as far as non Indian taxpayers are concerned, and if that were generally realiz ed, people would be scream ing blue murder They don't tealize it because neatly everyone in the media ignores uw One guy who saw it com ing a long time ago, though, i Doug Pusher of the boron to Sun. a former NDP Bouse leader in Ottawa THUNDERBIRD YACHT SALES 5776 Marine Dr. W. Van Bayshore West Marina 1755 W. Georgia 689-7371 _NEW BAYLINERS AT CLEARANCE PRICES : 2550 SARATOGA C/B bee ..« $36,900 2350 MONT"- ord $31 81 > NOW ‘AA 7950 ENCOUNTER (/B $54, 900 7550 SARATOGA HARD TOP » $11,900 AND MANY MORE TO ~ — CHOGSE FROM OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK CALL 921.7457 TAGE STOLE WHERE'S THE END? In 1979, Fisher pointed out that the Indian and Inui At- fairs program was costing almost $739 millon In 10 years, he wrote, this program alone could be costing $2 billion. (Now, only five years later, wo oas already costing $1.68 bilhon) And once the big native land claims are set- tled, he said, “‘the moneys going out could be astronomical Where does it all end, he asked? And he continued: **What bothers me is the antique no- tion that a group of people, based on its racial origin and the fact that ws ancestors were here first, should have claim forever on the rest of us (and) if priority is to be assigned by race and length of stay, perhaps this screwball approach should be broadened so that other groups of Canadians can find their rung on the ladder tn- stead of all being second- class cluzens for having arris ed late "" Oh well, no doubt Fisher as a bigot too ofous That makes two wees To the Unfit If you just sit You won't quit Being unfit THREE FULL SERVICE MARINAS OVER 1800 BERTHS