A2 - Wednesday, Jannary 27, 1982 - North Shore News strictly personal by Bob Hunter Violated partnership LIFE IN Canada becomes more and more of a contradiction every day. It reminds me of a marriage that has gone sour but which neither of the partners dares dissolve because of the in- vestment they'll lose. rubber-stamped, Tl be living in a country that is certainly not what the Fathers of Con- federation intended. A coup @etat has, in fact, RIVIERA SPA Swimming & Fitness Centre Men, Women — Swim 7 Days a Week all membershi New Year's lyr.$89 . 1/2 price - Now teaturing ladies wate: therapy & aquatic exercise classes Guaranteed Lowest Prices e Aerobic Training * 1O Supervised Ladies Exercise classes per day * Conditioning body buliding area e Remedial Mineralized Whurlpool 1O8°F ° Heat 78°F Swimming Pool e Sauna e Access to 1/4 mile track Xmas week 4-9 Ai happened. It was done out in But I wonder if there isn’t the open, orchestrated by a something symbolic, let's Judging from the stories Thatis, the country isrunby regional party power say, about the fate that has NORTH VANCOUVER 980-9358 West of Lonsdale on ate across ee — yom City Hall at Marlborough Towers. out of Quebec ever since the an almost totally French- constitutional accord got rammed through, the in- dependence movement has reached slack tide. According to the polis, a majority of Francophones are ready to leave Canada, but they are held back by two things: Fear of unem- ployment and schism about strategy within the Parti Quebecois. Those aren't really very grand reasons for “being a Canadian,” are they? As per usual, anything could happen. The personal fates of Rene Levesque and Pierre Trudeau have become so intertwined with the fate of The True North Strong and Free that only a fool would try to predict what might be happening six months from now, let alone by the end of the century. Will Quebec play Maggie to English Canada’s Pierre? If so, who gets the kids? This is, presumably, the great question in Canada today. So far, it's always English Canada who gets the “kids,” i.e. the head offices of the banks and multinationals. Of course, there’s another way things might work out. Would English Canada ever play Maggie to French Canada's Pierre? At the moment, in the marriage between Quebec and the rest of Canada, the mouse is On top, so to speak. Canadian cabinet which rules by force majeur. At a’ certain level, the most significant thing that would happen if Quebec left was that the Liberal Party of Canada would be reduced to a purely Ontario-based party. It wouldn't have the clout any longer to continue to dominate the hinterlands. The Conservatives would become the national government and would presumably spend the rest of their lives fighting off Socialists, Indians and Western separatists. What would happen beyond then is necessarily in the realm of wildest speculation, but — taking a shot — Id be astonished if Ontario alone could hold the centre. The jubilation § that greeted the signing, by nine provinces, of the Trudeau Constitution, no matter how much motherhood stuff was added at the last moment, sounded to me like the death knell of a heroic 19th- Century experiment § in democracy, not the clarion call of a new era of unity. Pardon me if I'm not impressed by the document. And pardon me if I'm depressed about what it has done to the nation. It has killed the Canada I grew up in. Once the British Parlia- ment passes the paper back, structure playing the House of Commons like an organ, despite the fact that the courts of the land remain divided about its essential legality. The basic partnership between Quebec and English Canada was violated. The meaning of confederation was a partnership of equals, remember? Not nine on one side ganging up on the other. And to the extent that Quebec's inherent, BNA- granted semi-autonomous status was destroyed, the original federation of equal partners was likewise destroyed. In a_ sense, Canada killed itself in an effort to overpower Quebec. You can look at the issue from 50 different angles and Punch in face wins $1,450 award AN ASSAULT in which a North Vancouver man was punched in the face has led to a compensation payment by the Worker’s Com- pensation Board of B.C. The man, who was at- tacked without warning by a male assailant while im a parking lot, has been awarded $1,450 for injuries and loss of wages. 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