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Seepr the past decade.
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the time to listen to it —
M@rhether they agree or dis-
meerec with the message it
livers, it needs to be heard.
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Bot much for dissension and

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Actually, he came in
rough the front door of the
wews with his lawyer’s-size
iefcase bearing his own
iar brand of enthusiasm

re, you know. Also has a
agh regard for the News, its
and on freedom of speech
fed what many might regard
ea its‘stubborn right-of-centre
memitorial st-nd.
So even though the Globe

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review his weighty tome
Farewell the Peaceful
Kingdom: the Seduction and
Rape of Canada, 1963 to
1994, Smokin’ Joe can’t be
all that bad.

Doesn’t even look
remotely dangerous or sub-

“A rebel rouser
who revels in
tweaking the
snouts of the

political dullards
who run this
country.”

versive: medium build,
bespectacled, slightly dishev-
elled, tousled hair, walks with
a limp. The latter characteris-
tic is the result of a volley-
ball accident suffered in
1983. Probably spiked one
too many bails into the soft
belly of the Canadian estab
lishment.

But this sixth generation
Torontonian moves with a
mischievous energy and
speaks with the clarity of a
man confident in his convic-
tions, a rebel-rouser who
revels in tweaking the snouts

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of the political dullards who
run this country.

Most would insert “won-
derful” in front of country
in the preceding sentence,
and I think Smokin’ Joe
would too, but his exaspera-
tion with the erosion of its
once sterling character has
become a life’s work.

Farewell the Peaceful
Kingdom is a 750-page brick
devoted to documenting the
ruin of Canada at the hands
of arrogant politicians via
pig-headed adherence to
such programs as bilingual-
ism, multiculturalism and a
block-headed Charter of
Rights and Freedoms.

How about an arrogant
disregard for the voice of
Canadians? That too.

Another of its overriding
theses is that the precious
freedoms this country now
enjoys are in serious jeop-
ardy because “most people
in this society have no idea
what personal freedom is:
that it is a responsibiliry not
a right; that it demands con-
stant vigilance and strug-

le...”

That it demands citizens
willing and eager to dissent.
To stand up and say what
they believe, whether they
are right or wrong.

Canadians need to know,
says Smokin’ Joe, “that it’s
OK to discuss; it’s OK to
debate. Without debate we
are lost.”

No kidding.

We are already well on
the way to being lost now.

The Doug Collins heresy
trial is only the most recent
manifestation of that confu-
sion over what democracy is
all about and what real free
speech is all about.

“This is not just about

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Shore News,” says
Armstrong. “This is a seri-
ous, serious issue taking
place all over the country:
the slow, invidious erosion of
rights.”

In a Sept. 23 address to
the Association of Canadian
Clubs, Armstrong called
Canada a “nation that
thrives on self-abuse :.. a
country (that) has been
turned into a victim-culture
society as defined by its own
Constitution.”

Sounds familiar, does it
not?

The 63-year-old retired
federal public servant, mer-
chant banker and senior
industrial development direc-
tor for Canada at Expo 86
has been written off as a
one-eyed clairvoyant, a wob-
ble boy and a shiver sister by
mainstream press for the
views expressed in his writ-
ings.

But Smokin’ Joe makes a
lot of sense to this West
Coast rube and I suspect a
host of other like-minded
tubes.

Wobbly boy, right wing
loony — whatever the main-
stream media wants to label
Armstrong, so be it.

We need more like him to
keep this good ship Canada
from hitting the rocks of the
new fascism that are crop-
ping up in rough waters
around the North Shore
News and anywhere else that
orthodoxy is challenged.

Smokin’ Joe packs more
than a one-two punch. He’s
got knock-out potential. But
he’s up against some tough
opponents.

The most dangerous
being complacency and

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