6 - Wednesday, February 24, 1988 - North Shore News INSIGHTS Sauce for Quebec goose, sauce for BRITISH COLUMBIANS REBELLING against the beefed-up bilingualism Bill C-72 have been offered some imaginative new ammunition — if their Tory-Socred leaders have the guts to use it. The Bill, expanding bilin- gualism Canada-wide in federal institutions and the courts, forces French down English- speaking throats to a degree even Pierre Trudeau never risk- ed. The delightfully simple answer for B.C. comes from North Van's Ron Gamble, a local chieftain of the recently launched Reform Party, which is dedicated to winning a better deal all round for the West. His logic goes like this. use of English in government and private businesses alike. Ottawa winks at this fran- cophone defiance for the same reason that has led to Bill C-72 — Brian Mulroney's desperate necd to win as many of Quebec's 75 seats as possible in the upcetaing election. La Belle Province gets away with it by insisting on being treated as ‘‘a distinct society" in Confederation. And sauce for the goose, of course, can be sauce for the gander. So Ron’s solution (are you listening, BI Vander Zatm?) is to proclaim B.C., too, as '‘a distinct society’’. After all, the Quebec rejects bilingualism outright with its own UNIL- INGUAL Law 101, banning the oe | .