A4 - Sunday, March 18, 1984 -

North Shore News

get this straight

| by Doug Collins
Why pay the bouncer.

MONTH-END MEETING

NDP hopefuls
coming to NV

NDP LEADERSHIP
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tell North Vancouver
residents why they think they

All six leadership can-
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leadership debate to be held

to throw you out?

Park now belongs to Joe Mathias and his boys.

Ee SERVES US RIGHT that half of Ambleside

The only thing | to. be wondered at is that the

the whole of Park Royal away as well. No doubt
that’ll come later, this country. being on a big guilt

binge.

The reasoning behind this
nutty giveaway is that the
land was taken away from
the Indians in 1920 or 1820 or
whatever. So what? Apply
that logic to the country as a
whole and the whole damned
place would have to be given
back. The truth is that we
stole it fair and square, and
at one time didn’t mind ad-
mitting it. But now we've.
gone soft.

These days, in an effort to
purge the national psyche of
sin, those characters in Ot-
tawa spend half their time
giving away our money and
property. So we shouldn’t be
surprised if Mathias is jump-
ing up and down in delight.
**Now you know how it felt
to us to have our land
stolen,’’ he crows. He rubs it
in by adding that he won't let
the area be used for recrea-
tional purposes. Well, | hope
he builds a dozen high-rise
apartment buildings there.
They would be a permanent
memorial to our daftness.

SELF-GOVERNMENT

The Ambleside fiasco
comes at a time when the In-
dians are beating the tom-
toms for self-government.
And they: might have got it
the other day if Bill Bennett
and the other provincial
premiers hadn't said No.
Trudeau was strongly in
favor of it, as you might ex-
pect, and wore a funny In-
dian hat to demonstrate his
view. (When he makes a pan-
sy speech he usually wears
something strange, like when
he wore that night-gown in

Saudi-Arabia.)

Mind you, I agree that the
Indians should get self-
government — provided they
stop their whining and cadg-
ing. Last year, for instance,
Indian Affairs cost us
$1,680,000,000. What we got
out of it except a lot of abuse
I don’t know. And that’s not
even to mention that 70 per
cent of our Indian brothers
are on welfare. No one has

dared to add up what that -

amounts to. Furthermore,

‘An effort
to purge
national
psyche. ’’

we're the ones who finance
all this native claims agita-
tion. Last year, nearly
$6,000,000 went on that.
Which is like paying a
bouncer to throw you out of
a night club.

Here’s something else to
spoil your day: you're now
the Second Nation, if not a
Third. (Probably a third, the
French also being ahead of

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you.) The First Nations are
you-know-who, as witness
those advertisements that
have been appearing in the
papers. Your tax dollars pay
for those, as well. And last
year the Coalition of First
Nations was running ads that
read: ‘‘Somewhere along the
way, the government of
Canada got the idea that In-
dians are Canadians. We’re
not. We’re Indians. Separate,
sovereign nations.”’

Well, there’s gratitude for
you. Where would they be to-
day if Captain Cook hadn’t
stopped by to rub noses with
them? In the woods, freez-
ing, that’s where. Enjoying
sovereignty.

You may have gathered
that I'm tired of hearing
aboutt the lives and hard
times of the Indians, and
wish that Ron Huntington
would represent my views in
Parliament, if Brian
Mulroney will permit such a
thing. It ain’t my fault if
these Super Nations them-
selves claim a whopping
suicide rate, a whopping
drunk rate, a whopping in-
fant mortality rate, a whopp-
ing jail rate and a whopping
welfare rate. It’s their fault.
Not only that, but all the
guys | saw on TV at that Ot-
tawa conference looked
pretty sleek. Joe Mathias
looks pretty sleek, too.

From what I see in the
papers of the Ambleside
plans, we get to keep the
duck pond. Lucky ducks. A
few more yards to the west
and they'd have been whining
instead of quacking.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Signed
columnists and writers of let-
ters to the editor are always
welcome to express their per-
sonal views. Such views do
not necessarily coincide with
the editorial standpoint of
the North Shore News.)

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