2 - Friday, March 16, 1984 - North Shore News strictly personal by Bob Hunter o tears please TOW THAT PRIME MINISTER wa TRUDEAU. has wisely stepped aside, it might be possible to contemplate the coming federal election with a rational mind. The desire to be rid of the man had become a national fetish. Pierre Trudeau has been © prime minister so long that some young people eligible to vote for the first time can remember no other prime minister except Joe Blink, if that counts. Trudeau has cast a shadow over my entire generation. In a way, he was a gust of flower power. The media picked up hungrily on all the hippie stuff and created an atmosphere in which a guy like Trudeau suited the ap- petite of the times. It seemed, like, cosmic when he picked up Maggie. And dressed in all those robes. It was only briefly, when he fell from power, that his image melted away. The man standing there apologiz- ing to his fellaw Liberals in Montreal was a coy, utterly self-infatuated bragging brat. There had been another glimpse of Trudeau that registered rather nastily in my mind, It was his macho just- watch-me routine during the We Perform eS FLQ crisis, when he invoked the War Measures Act. He basically gave himself the power to round up everybody on the West Coast and march us off to concentration. **Trudeau suited the appetite of the times”’ camps, just to handle a hand- ful of crazed Pequistes. His économic crimes against Canadians are ob- . vious. He has bequeathed us ‘of unemployed. His sum LAWNS GET SICK T00 KEEP YOURS HEALTHY Get the grass strangling, THATCH out.... RENT- "a gutted industrial paradise. The measure of his essential indifference to the plight of ~ his ordinary fellow citizens can be seen in the long lines total economic vision. seems to have been to blame the Americans for our financial mess. Feeble. Vii tell you what I think was his worst sin. He totally ignored the pleadings of the conservation movement, and this was one area where Canada could have exercised leadership. He was more con- cerned about the Third World than he was about the greenhouse effect in his own backyard. On issues like the seal hunt, whaling, trafficking in nuclear technology, the Atlantic and Pacific fisheries, reforestation, alternative energy, pollution controls, toxic waste shipments, clean- ing up the Great Lakes, and’), above all, acid rain, Trudeau was a complete dud. We gained a cumbersome and unworkable Charter of Rights but lost 10,000 lakes while Trudeau tinkered with fine points of force majeure. Au revoir, Monsigneur Trudeau. As you so quaintly put it, fuddle-duddie. 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