4 - Sunday, July 31, 1988 - North Shore News fs : JOHN TURNER, it turns out, bas a tyrannical streak in him almost as awesome as his unlamented predecessor’s. He ; John, the Godfather, Should we refer to this as Turner’s Putsch? * Why mince words? The man is fe playing the dirtiest game since ES Pierre Trudeau rammed the War Measures Act down on us. Just because there was a prece- ’ : dent in £911 for Turner’s move is Bt : no excuse at all. That's like saying because our democracy was raped Js 7 once, it’s okay to rape her again. Because that’s what Turner is doing: political rape. Trudeau, I’m sure, must be nodding somewhere in the shadows — approvingly. No doubt for the first time. Certainly it is the sort of ay caper he would pull. hae And it is every bit as Machiavellian. By comparison, Bill Vander Zalm’s little internal coup d’etat in coy Victoria Jooks almost gentlemanly. i: But what a grim political picture for Canadians! At one end of the country we have a guy hijacking the majority party from within and running the province as a personal fiefdom, while in the national capital the leader of the opposition gives the marching orders to his unelected minions in the Senate to usurp the authority of the government. In fact, it was a rather amazing coincidence that in the week that Turner was conspiring to overturn THE AVALON Hotel has received North Vancouver District Council approval for the establishment of a licensee retail store. Applications for beer/wine stores in predominantly residential areas require a referendum, but because the Avalon is located in a commercial area no referendum was required. The store will be considered an accessory use and so no rezoning was required either. The hotel will close its existing banquet facility and convert the area to a cooler room and a sales floor handling B.C.-produced beer, wine, ciders and coolers. Ald. Bill Rodgers spoke against the hotel’s application for a Minor Development Permit that would allow for external changes to the rear loading area of the Avalon. “T think this is a fairly signifi- cant change in our community when we are moving a banquet fa- cility out and putting in a retail li- FIGHT THE LUNG | CRIPPLERS f Support Your Lung Association let it all hang out when he called on the Liberal party mafia in the Senate to stall the free trade deal. Canadian democracy, Parliament should have consigned the old War Measures Act to history, replacing it with a far less Draconian set of rules for national emergencies. Canada was actually taking a good-sized step forward in its evolution toward becoming a true democracy. No more can Japanese- Canadians be rounded up and stripped of their property. Or any At one end of the country we have a guy hijacking the majority party from within and running the province as a personal fiefdom, while in the national capital the leader of the opposition gives the marching orders to his unelected minions in the Senate to usurp the authority of the government.’”’ other minority. No more can Quebecoise be ar- rested en masse and detained for wecks without being charged. This was good stuff. The Tories should take a bow for having dismantled the War Measures Act — no doubt about it. Allow me to stand up and applaud. It seems almost too much of a coincidence for the issue of the be- trayal of freedom to resurface on the eve of Turner’s attack on the whole idea of elected repre- sentation. In the United States, of course, where the Senate is elected, as it should be, no single politician could pull the kind of stunt Turner has just pulled without being haul- _ ed away and tried for treason. Who could invent a plot like that? Just as Canada was decisive- ly maturing as a democracy, along comes a madly frustrated politican named John Turner, launching what amounts to a de facto insur- quor outlet,’’ he said. “1 think we have enough liquor outlet facilities as is, { think that rection. | mean, who are these bloody senators? Bag men, political foes who ac- cepted pay-offs in exchange for silence, party insiders who sucked up to the backroom kingpins, wealthy men who bought their ‘way in, washed-up front men and 1 mouthpieces, lawyers who know too much, ; The historical irony is that , Turner’s desperate grab for. power amounts to what is in effect an unapprehended insurrection, the very thing Trudeau used as an ex- cuse to terrorize his opponents in Quebec and win himself brownie points with Anglos. : If the Liberai hacks in'the, Senate had worn headbands and 1 waved rifles in the air, we would |. know that the elected government : was being toppled. But they are for'the most part — faceless old conmen, a Geritol generation of political pigs who have been feeding at the crough for so long they only know how to" grunt. , Sorry. But even when it is not interfering overtly with the work-’ ings of the'elected government, the Senate drives me batty. It is such an outrageous blot on our ‘identity.’ So long as the’ Senate exists in its present form; Canada cannot bé ° f said to have really entered the 20th ° Century. The. Senate is a lefto-, or. from a barbarous potitical past, which is the kindest jhing T can say about it. For John Turner to use the.cor- rupt instrument of the Senate to; try to impose his xenophobia on the country is the last straw. [ am still stunned. It is the. stupidest manoeuvre imaginable. The guy is on a political suicide course, He wants down from the cross he’s been nailed to since the last election. I think he’s delirious with psychological pain. Ialso * think he’s gotten so caught up in: his own psycho-drama he’s lost touch with reality It happens, you know. Sad, but there you are. John Turner, cer- tifiable nutcase @ Beer store approved for hotel we do need a banquet facility and that’s an integral Avalon Hotel’s operation.” A MUSIC LEGEND — RETURNS TO THE RUSTY GULL THE INCREDIBLE LLY COWSILL 4 nights only neighbourhood pub Thursday through Phone: 988-5585 part of. the ' NV Council to Quay road access LIMITED TRAE FIC wil be. allowed on two new roads fronting developments near the . SeaBus terminal, oe Chesterfield Place’ and Chad- wick Créscent will be open to ser- vics vehicles, ‘taxis and drivers picking up handicapped | SeaBus passengers. j The roads will run to the west ‘and south of .a soon- -to-be-built . 14-story im- ICRC residential of tower mediately west the ’ building at Lonsdale Quay. North Vancouver City Ald. 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