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A2- - Wednesday, € October 13, 1982 - North Shore News

| strictly personal

The question about
the mortgage assistance

‘ program announced-by
Premier Bill Bennett-is
not whether it’s really
going. to save anyone’s
life or not, but whether

the great unwashed
masses: can tolerate
being treated like nerds
again.

I’m roughly as nervous as
the next middle class statistic
and will bite at virtually any
hook with a worm on it
thrown in my direction. But
will J vote for the fisherman?

There’s pride, you know.

I get slightly incensed by
elected officials who toss me
candies in order to make me
like them.

My grandfather used to do
that. Whenever he'd come to
visit, he would have the

is. vest—stuffed

pockets_of his :
with candy. My brother and
I would be allowed to crawl
up onto his lap and dig
around until we found the
inevitable treats.

My mother used _ to
mumble about our teeth
being ruined, but Grandpa
was on to a good thing, and
my brother and I were, too.

Does bribery work? Of
course’ it does. You don't
have to be a backroom
manipulator for the Ontario

with fresh butter and
chives

cheddar cheese

by Bob Hunter

Tory. machine in order to
figure that out.

Heck, my wife  toilet-
trained our kid in record

‘time by skipping all, the

theories of child rearing and
offering him an _ outfront

bribe of candy or toys if he.

would stop wetting his bed.

And that’s.okay so far as -

toilet training and Grandpas

are concerned. I've got no’

quarrel.

It's as a citizen, an adult
citizen, that nry back gets up
when somebody offers me a
political bribe, which I'm
afraid Mr. Bennett’s mor-
tgage assistance scam comes
down to.

The timing is just too
peculiar.

And here is the odd thing
about our imperfect form of
democracy: It’s illegal for
you or me to try to bribe a
politician, but it’s okay —
even normal -- for a

politician to bribe us.

Don't gét mé wrong.
When someone throws a
lifeline, whether it’s
politically motivated or not,
it behooves a rational being
to accept the line. I'm not

drowning just yet, but there”

are plenty of people who
are.

The assistance program
may be a good thing insofar
as it goes although the real
estate people I talk to have
their doubts.

It's not quite the piece of

ribe, Mr. B.!

largesse that” “Alberta’ s
Premier Lougheed was able
to get away with, in a move

' that is universally applauded

as being not only shrewd but
brilliant.

I have trouble, you see, in
appreciating Lougheed’ s
generosity. Since it is so
patently self-serving, it
really -has nothing to do with
humanitarian impulses.

Of course, in . reality,
people seldom behave on the
basis of principle, you say.
Lougheed will get re-elected
and Bennett, too, just as
Trudeau was restored by
Ontario when he promised
cheaper fuel.

It goes without saying that
any system which permits
the politicians to bribe us
instead of resorting to water-
hoses and tanks to keep us in
line is obviously superior.

I far prefer being bribed to
being tortured any day.

It's just that the cupboard
our politicians “invariably
plunder i in order to offer us
the jam jar is our own
collective. cupboard, and

surely they suspect that we” -

have. the ‘intelligence: to be
aware of this.

Being bribed is bad

enough:* Being: bribed: with

my own tax-money is worse.
And any. way, you:hack it,
that's. what | the. ‘“Mmortgage |
assistance plan amounts too.
‘M . Bennett, Very

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OTTAWA (UPC) + Cariada
Post., detailed . Friday its .

guidelings.to” customers: for

getting: ‘their Christmas cards.

and. “parcels ‘delivered on

time...

Cards for delivery in
Canada must be sealed and
carry 30 cents postage. _

Cards to be delivered

locally must be mailed no
later than Dec. 17, and cards
to be delivered out of ‘town
but in Canada must be
mailed by. Dec. 13. The
corporation said the same
deadlines would apply to
parcels.

REORGANIZATION of the
labor relations function of
the Greater Vancouver
Regional District has been
endorsed by the GVRD

‘board of directors, which is

now applying to the
provincial government for
formal approval of
changes.

Under the new setup the
Labor Relations Committee
would be renamed _ the
Greater Vancouver
Regional Labor
Bureau. The Bureau would

have control over how it.

allocated expenditures

by the GVRD Board.

Bureau members would-be :

appointed by participating

Municipalities that elect to
join the Bureau would be
locked-in for one year and,
following that — lock-in
period, members that decide

to opt out. would be required ©

to give two years notice.

fireplaces,

the =

Relations -;,

though its overall - “budget :

OPEN DAILY 1-5 P.M.

sealed,

later than Dec. 13.
Three’ new.
stamps, -

Christmas
depicting various

nativity scenes,.. will ‘be
. issued Nov. 3 in 30, 35 and

60-cent denominations.
Oct. 16 is the deadline for
surface parcels--to- Europe.
Unsealed Christmas cards
sent to Great Britain and

.. Northern Ireland should be
mailed before Nov. 20if they

go by. surface | or before Dec.
11 if sent by air.

n otiates on behalf OF

Greeting cards sent to the —
United States- must . be . ti
carry 35. ‘cénts
postage and. be mailed : m9,

Nov. 50. Ror no dater” th and

Central. and. South American
els

Yo .
Christmas cards to these
destinations must be air-
mailed no later. than Dec. 4.

All greeting “cards going
overseas, whether by surface
or’ airmail,..-must be. - left
unsealed.. “and marked
“printed papers” to meet

international requirements.

Labour relations revamped

present .. ‘the... -GVRD . municipalities,
Labor Relations. Department. separate local government
AZ.

‘mumerous

boards and the GVRD itself.

END OF SEASON

CLEARANCE

FF

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