reader whose name I cannot make out
sends me an interesting suggestion. He says
we should declare a national apology day

during which.everyone can apologize to everyone
else for wrongs real or imagined.

AT
get this
straight

What he had in mind, of
course, was the circus in
which the Japa-
uese-Canadian Association is
attempting to get Ottawa to
: ‘do a full-scale grovel for
- what happened during the
“war.
’ ~My man has done a lot of
hinking on the subject.
“Canadians with an
English background can
apologize to Canadians of
-'§cottish background for the
‘Highland clearances.
“Mexican-Canadians can
apologize to, American-
Canadians for the Alarno.
<“Spanish-Canadians can
‘apologize to Dutch-Cana-
dians for the Inquisition.

“Hindu-Canadians can ce
‘apologize .to- Bengali-Cana- . b

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ands of bodies dumped into
he Ganges River in the past a
° *Y¥oruba-Nigerian- .
. Canadians can apologize to once one of our great causes,
he’ ‘genocide “in Biafra. D.C.)
Remember Biafra? It was ‘*Chinese

Canadians

Alderman Robert Hicks.

The initial meetings of the
Committee have dealt with
consideration of a central
theme for community ‘‘Expo
°86’' activities and the
development of a particular
focus for major events.

[AYOR: DERRICK Hum-
-ophreys has‘arinounced that a
:West::Vancouver Expo ’86
“Committee has. been formed
. encourage’:;and —co-or-
late community activities
Uring-the.months of Expo

‘the Commit-

I : It is anticipated that two
pe is investigating methods major annual events, i.e.
Participating in the rece “Community Day and the

/Ognition ‘of Vancouver City’s
Centennial year’ 1986.

‘The Committee consists of
sepresentation . from
ity’‘organizations
haired by former

Coho Festival will be enlarg-
ed and expanded in time.
However, the Committee
encourages those groups or
individuals who are interest-
ed in providing special

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might offer a few words of
solace to Tibetai.-Canadians
about what’s happened in
Tibet."

My correspondent says
that law abiding, tax-paying

regular old Cana-
dian-Canadians of the
English-speaking variety

(who, as everyone knows,
are nothing but a bunch of
racist’ residuals from = im-
perial days -- D.C.) may
need an extra day or two for
their apologies, their sins be-
ing more numerous than the
others’.

Canadian-Canadians
could “‘apologize to, and
prostrate themselves before,
everyone from Albanians to
Zambians"*.. And to make
sure nothing trendy is
overlooked, ‘‘some mention
could be made of those with
concerns in
peculiar sexual orientations,
plant rights, native rights,
feminism, etc.””

He’s missed out a few
things, of course. English
Canadians could apologize
to French-Canadians for the
Plains of Abraham, and we
could all apologize to the
Indians for having swiped
their land.

North Shore mayors could
set a national example. They

events or activities during
the Expo year to provide, in
writing, their proposals to
the Municipal Hall.

Hicks stated ‘‘All  pro-
posals will be considered by
the Committee and eventual-
ly a list of ‘Official West
Van Expo ‘86 Events’ will be
presented for endorsation by
the Municipal Counci]”’. He
also emphasized that com-
munication will occur with
the North Vancouver Expo
'86 Commitieve te ensure a
co-ordinated North Shore
effort.

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could kick things off with a
‘*North Shore Apology
Day.” A start has to be
made somewhere.
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It follows, naturally, that
women could apologize to
men for all the harrassment
to which we've been sub-
jected these past few years.

Mr. P. Nielsen-Kolding of
Vancouver may have had
that in mind when he orga-

nized the Men's Action
Committee. (You didn’t
know there was such a

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thing? There is, and it has an
office, c/o M.P.O. Box
4490, Vancouver, V6B 3Z8.
Mr. N-K says he knows
there’s not much point in
writing to politicians, but he
wants me to tell me that not
all men are mice (which I
once suggested was the case).

With that in mind, he has.

sent an eight-point agenda to
all the political leaders and
to most newspapers. (But
they seem not have printed

it.)
Mr. N-K addresses himself

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to the vexing question of
“What Men Reaily Want,”
and his Point No. 8 that one
of the things men want is:

“The establishment of a
Men’s Caucus’’ in every po-
litical party... with a view to
eliminating the discrimina-
tion against men now ex-
isting, and to further the
aspirations of men.”

Thank you, Sir. History
will absolve you, and you
will be remembered as a
male suffragette and
freedom fighter.

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