© get this straight © in Dundarava Since 1969. WELL, I guess I'll have to apply to the Guinness Book of Records for having had the shortest political career ever. it lasted about 12 hours. Perhaps less. Guinness might also put me down as having had the largest nomination meeting accept it, The letter demanded, inter alia, that the constituency association pass a resolution expressly rejec- me 29-3014 ting any policy that discriminates 9 ~ Sunday, October 23, 1988 —- North Shore News This Week's runt DRAW - D. ‘Sirtanal in Canada. Over 1,000 isn’t bad. Let me give you a straight ac- count of how this fiasco happened. When I offered to run for the Reform Party I did so because it seemed to me to be the only party that would address issues the others wouldn’t touch: the domination of the country by Quebec, a crazy official bilinguali- sm policy, a fair dea! for the west — and immigration. It was evident from day one that Mr. Gordon Shaw of West Van- couver, vice-chairman of the party, was not too keen on your man. However, I got the backing of the constituency executive and we were off to the races. And i was confi- dent I could take Mary Collins. The bomb was dropped last Sunday. Shaw asked me to go down to the Pan Pacific to meet Manning. I did so and he informed me that in the event of my being nominated he would not sign my papers, there being ‘‘a perception” in some quarters that I am a racist. I replied that if he took such a step against the will of the Capilano-Howe Sound constituen- cy, he would destroy the Reform Party’s chances on the North Shore. He said he was prepared to take that risk in the interests of the party at large. When this became known to in- Siders, panic:set in. I sat in my agent’s house until midnight Sun- day while Mr. Ron Gamble, the North Van candidate, phoned as many of the national executive as he could find. None of them knew anything about what Manning had done, so it is a fiction to pretend, as some are now doing, that he acted with the executive’s approval, which is what the party constitution says he must do in matters of this sort. It was only later, after that amazing nominating meeting, that the ex- ecutive was consulted. Tone members were then faced with an impossible choice: back Collins or back the leader. Naturally, they backed the leader, but even then the decision was not unanimous.’’ Its members were then faced with an impossible choice: back Collins or back the leader. Natu- rally, they backed the leader, but even then the decision was not unanimous. Mr. Manning touts the Reform Party as a grass roots party in which the constituents’ voices shalt be paramount. He even suggests there should be “recall” for MPs who ignore the wishes of the con- stituents. How then, I asked him ‘on Sunday, could he reconcile what he was doing with such prin- ciples? — He said it would be difficult. The next day, Monday, having been put under a lot of pressure, he phoned me with what he thought was a compromise. That was the infamous letter I read out to the nominating meeting. I told him immediately that I couldn’t against people on the basis of race and that the candidate should sign a paper that he would abide by the resolution. That was unacceptable. It was an insult to me and to the consti- tuency. Further, candidates agree when they are nominated that they will support party principles, and I had done that. This stupidity was compounded when a member of the national ex- ecutive was on the radio from Edmonton Monday morning say- ing that although there was a “‘perception’’ in some quarters that fam a racist (handy word that, ‘“‘perception’’) nobody had been able to come up with anything concrete. On Thursday, Manning himself admitted to the media he had no proof of “‘rac- ism.” That being the case, why raise it? And does the Reform Party subscribe to the New McCarthyism in which anyone who wishes to preserve Canada’s culture is automatically a racist? Mr. Manning cannot seem to get his lines straight. He is running against Joe Clark in Yellowhead, and has accused that worthy — correctly — of ignoring the wishes of his constituents, especially on the issues of Quebec and bilin- gualism. Yet he can ignore the wishes of a record constituency nominating meeting. Is Mr. Manning a new Joe Clark? And is the Reform Party simply a party like the others? I'm afraid it is. 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