A= Sunday, August 23, 1987

THIS IS, of cotirse,

heretical, in fact..For: expressin
the apparent current mood 6 most Canadians,

could gel Kneecapped.

"But let me getit off my cheat

It’s about refugees.

The truth of: the matter is,

that I relate to refugees:
Yes, Ido. I. feel sorry for

people ‘who. are’: being tortured |
and oppressed. and stomped all |:
exploiters, -

over’: by’: various’
whether of the left or the right.

A*-horrendous >
-people.on this planet live under,
‘conditions so appalling. that if
‘Mos! of us. were there, on the
spot,-having ‘to watch as these
people suffered, we would be
desperately. trying to do some:
thing to help them.

Oh; _many of us would slink

wouldn’t - feel
_ Ourselves ever

away,. but:we
good about
againe:) 2

Mostly, we hever have to pay
“any. attention to what is going
on’ out; there where, the unfor:
‘tunates live: So:we ¢an turn in-

‘ward: and_ enjoy “ourselves and...
live'a good Jife and die with a

‘contented belch:

‘ Not. much of /a “destiny, “yup:

edom, is it?

This: is ‘strictly: from out of.

the ball’ park, butin my. heart,
you. see;:’ Twould ‘like’ it. if

Canada | was"to..take, in every.
‘one of” the 15 ‘million refugees:

from out there in the’ rest of the
miserable world.

It: would be’an exodus‘of his- an

toric ‘magnitude, wouldn’t it?”
“Tt would’ put
geopolitical map as a Force with
more influence ‘than’ you could

-buy- ‘with ‘a housand nuclear 7

submarines

interesting < :
It". would

also. become’. the
greatest») .country,* anywhere.
Great |. in -the,
-Breatnes ;

an sunterly

number © of, >.

o that out! = 223

us’ onthe”:

= North Shore New

ndahe | thoughi.. ls s
a thoueh like ens, given

Bes

al-no'one:else has

ing larger of. spirit.
more. magnanimous, more
enlightened

“The legality of the
occupation of Canada
“by the uninvited: .°

‘European. hordes is ‘still 7
before the courts, don’ ‘t

_. Sorget.”?

. With’a vision, even!
We would become the new:
-New Jerusalem. j

The next century ‘would, in-

“deed, belong to us.
No joke. The next generation

-of .Canadians ‘would bein: a.

“tremendous position to.‘exert
‘serious. influence ‘on. world -af-

fairs; for. we would’ Speak “every 2

tongue ‘and ‘know every: coun-

try—not just a few—as the fa-’.

miliar “Old Country. ”

We would experience such an
infusion of energy, inspiration,
passion and: burning: drive ‘that
our economy: would rapidly. éx-
pand,-and we would assume the

" {moral leadership of the world.’

‘There: -you gol. J blurted, all:
Of course: it’s.

‘flog me.:

But. as- you. do, consider: the &
context ‘of, the idea, Herelis a’:

country which’ was’ built. by:

legal: immigrants.: The | legality
"of the occupation of. Canada by
~ the uninvited: European . hordes

is: still before the courts, don’ t

forget.”

,The “first! wave of invaders

didn’t like'the second, wave. very *:
: The : fall. of New?

»much, did. t

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a person"

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everything

France. was a bitterly- -oppe
things Only. force of.

+. Sure, there: were plenty” of
hustlers <and-> remittance “men:

-and : ambitious soldiers! among"!

them, but) mostly they were

down-and-outs escaping from/a :

hopeless “economic: and’ socjal
pit. eae
There are): _ by thi way, no.
comparisons “to*. be
tween. what would’ happen’ in

.Canada and what did happen in. *

the U.K as’ a result-of the col-.
lapse of ‘the: Empire and the

backwash of ‘foreigners,/on’ to

those very tribal British shores.

Canada is already structurally. . ;

set up, like itor not, in terms of.

, the “legal syStem and''a ‘broad

tradition of absorbing. other in-

«fluences, if not always gently,

as. a genuine. multi- cultural

culture.; That doesn’t. bother me,

at: alle 1, think ‘that’s actually:
great.’
We have nothing to ose’ but.

our xenophobia. .
~ -Tsee ‘no. reason whatsoever ;
why a |Canadian* face must nec-?-
essarily: mean a:white face. And # 7
“since there is{no such thing asa
‘Canadian :
a imported: languages’ of the first...”
two major foreign tribes: to:in-:
‘vade,'!both now.; deemed = ‘‘of-
ficial’, any -old “language: will:
do as a “Canadian”? language.

language, ° just» the

If-we actually went for-it, and”
deliberately: absorbed the whole

‘world’s. dispossessed; Canada
“= eould: transform: itself into’ one
of. ‘history's’: greatest civiliza-

tions, a: unique. blend: of

There you'go. True madness.
Surely“1 must be kidding»: But”
. ’m not. Not really. It would be

nice to have a vision, ‘if nothing

-else.: Alli this small- mindedness
and, selfishness” and ‘racial “up-
‘tightness 7 isa ‘pain in the. butt.

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