A4 - Wednesday, August 22, 1984 - North Shore News

day. Ombudsworker.

by Bob Hunter

reading Simma

Crusading

MP. World-saver. Two-fisted journalist.

It’s all true, of course.
Simma was all of these
things.

In fact, in a column com-
paring her brief stint in the
House of Commons as an
MP between 1974 and 1979
with the stature that has been
achieved by Pat Carney, both
of whom I used to share a
newspaper office with, |
forgot to mention the most
revealing thing about Mrs.
Holt.

And that’s what she’s do-
ing for a living now.

In a reply to my suggestion
that she hadn't exactly set the
world on fire, Simma (come
on now, we’re old
friends—no need to be for-
mal) wrote that your cor-
respondent ‘‘did not bother

to find out what my contribu-
uon was in Ottawa, what |
gained for my riding, and for
many other Canadians who
contacted me for help.”’

Simma then tells us that
she did this and she did that.
Yes, there was a lot of good
things. Project Identifica-
uon. Re-stocking Trout Lake
with fish. Making an unused
community centre popular.
And being the ‘‘first non-
lawyer and woman’’ on the
Justice and Legal Affairs
Committee.

She even worked (gasp!)
with Mark MacGuigan on a
report on penitentiary
violence that was met by
‘‘praise from the media and
the corrections community.”’

We won’t ask awkward

Thief chased

PARK ROYAL

security
guards were able to scare
away a would-be thief

without his booty Monday.

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The guards gave chase as a
young man _ attempted to
remove three dozen bottles
of beer from the Cafe

Strictly personal

hame, Simma

T WAS FASCINATING
Holt’s job description, as written by herself,
on the editorial page of this paper the other
Crime-buster.

questions about what all this
led to—since it seems evident
that there is still a fair bit of
violence happening in
Canada’s prisons—although
it would be interesting to
know how much that par-
ticular report that Simma and
Mark worked on actually
cost the taxpayer to produce.

Millions, at least.

Do you and Mark still keep
in touch, Simma? Now that
he’s on the bench of the oh-
so-impartial Federal Court of
Canada. And you, of course,
are on the National Parole
Board.

I expect old Mark probably
makes more than you do,
Simma. But you're not doing
too badly yourself, are you?
Your reported salary is bet-
ween $56,640 and $66,660.

Not bad. For an_ ex-
journalist, non-lawyer, |
mean. AND a woman!

So, while I don’t want to
argue with anything you said
in your letter to the editor
that turned into a_=mini-

away

Royale in Park Royal South.

The young man dropped
the beer and managed to
elude the guards.

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autobiography (your copy
was always overwritten, if
you don’t mind me saying so)
it does seem fair (you accused
me of being unfair,
remember) to point out that
however much you ‘‘gained”’
for your riding of
Vancouver-Kingsway, you
didn’t exactly suffer too bad-
ly in the long haul yourself.

Simma! Shame! You are
guilty of having accepted a
job on the basis of pure
political patronage. You—of
all people!—are feasting at
the public trough with one
side of your mouth, and yap-
ping about duty and fighting
for the little guy out of the
other.

You aren’t going to suggest
you would have landed your
cushy public-purse job if you
hadn’t served as a Liberal,
are you?

Of course, you aren’t the
only ex-journalist on the
West Coast to have supped
from the pork barrel. You
will recall the case of your old
buddy Paul! St. Pierre, who
also wrote a column in ye
olde days in the same
building as you and Pat and |
toiled.

St. Pierre also got
elected—as the Liberal MP
from Chilcotin-Cariboo. He
was turfed out one election
later, but that didn’t hurt his
employment opportunities
any more than it hurt yours
when the voters gave you the
boot, Simma.

Like you, he was handed a
patronage plum on the parole
board. He has since quit to
go back to writing, after
discovering that Canada is
the most over-regulated
jurisdiction in the free world,
but I presume his salary was
roughly in the same ball! park
as yours.

Jeez, that’s not bad
money, Simma. That’s pro-

bably more than half a hun- ple _would.... well, join the
dred grand every year. For Liberal Party.
that kind of wage, some peo- Liberals! Gag!

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