- North Shore News THE ASTUTE, long-suffer- ing reader will have noted that there has been virtually no discussion of the immi- gration issue in this column. There are two simple reasons for that. First, Ehave always been ambivalent about immigration. ‘fhe second is that J have been chicken about it. Recent events in my awn life have jogged me out of my life-long reflex liberalism. For, indeed, | have been a small- “L”-Hiberal; by default, since I can remember, barring a youthful phase of trying on every exotic political idea around, from anarchism to fas- cism, the fullest intellectual range of political viewpoints. Onc thing, through all these stages, was constant: a horror of “racism.” It was, perhaps, my mothe disgust at even the slightest racist inference that set me on this path. “You can’t judge a person by the color of his skin,” she told me < thousand times. Don't mind me if I back into this slowly, [f represents the turning around of a basic loasey-poosey philosophy toward this country’s open-door immigration policies. which | am [etling go of only with deep reluctance. Jn fact ~ awful as this is to ‘admit —— some of what Doug Collins, with whom [ disagree on so many other subjects, from homo- sexuality to ecology, has been say- ing about our incredibly weird and wonky immigration rules, begins to look ats though it contains a harsh nugget of truth, Until now, [ have tried to stay out of the line of fire. This is the chicken part. What a hassle! | thought. Low- level stuff. People should be paying attention to the big issues like ozone depletion and climate change, and before that, nuclear weapons. Why get down in the muck? Well, sometimes life drags you there. Also, life in Canada has changed: in sume places, as we all know, dramatically, (tis, in terms of day-to-day experience, a differ- ent society, as though we had all travelled somewhere without actu- ally moving. What happened, of course, was that the world has come to Canada, bringing, in some cases, horrendous cullural baggage. By being pious we let in too many basketcases, by closing our eyes we letin too many thugs, and by selling Canadian citizenship to the highest bidder we let in too many sharks, Until recently, opposition to immigration was something I have generally equated with right-wing bilge. That was before | began to understand how this country really runs, the profound cynicism of our | Chez Elle ESTHETICS , Has Sean and moved to 2207-1331 Marine drive West Vancouver Cactus from Baas) Upstairs 922-1225 politics, the trade-affs and payors and power games, the behind-the- scenes routine Machiaveltianism, with every kind of faction phiyed off against every other kind of fac- tion, prejudice rewarded, and a legal system so capricious it camiot be trusted, yet acquire more power every day: a country where unique and irreplaceable landscapes are vanishing before our eyes. For decades, the thought has nayged the back of my mind that more people means more crowded parks, beaches, rivers, lukes, inlets and bays, Sure, it’s fine for the enirepre- neur, but the impact on the lifestyles of British Columbians --- and even more so, Torontonians — is nothing short of disastrous, Anybody who can remember back even just 30 years ago on the West Coast, as f can, knows per- fectly well that B.C. is a crowded, noisy, polluted, scarred mess com- pared with then, As for Ontario, 1 don't know what it was like prior to a few years STRICTLY PERSONAL ago, but | do know that nowaditys you have to fight your way through traffic-jams of canoes ina desperate bid to find an unused designated camping spot in fanious Algonquin Park, which, it turis out, is actually mainly a second: growth tree farm. Toronto itself proudly accepting the description of itself as the “most multicultural city in North America,” if not the world, is hav- ing to resorl to Draconian measures to try to keep a tid on escakiting nice-related violence on the school grounds and in the streets, Vietnamese gangs have durmed Chinatown into ¢ virtual shooting gallery and invented the art of armed home invasions, while Jamaican gungs are deep into drug dealing and prostitution. Macedonians slug it out with Grecks at previously peaceful, patriotic flag-raisings, Black youths rampage through the streets, mimic. king their distant cousins in Los Angeles. Iris the school grounds that are the scariest. at least from ihe pee- spective of a parent, For the last few yeers, our fami- ly has been based in the fegendarily non-legendary suburb of Scarborough, while | gain experi- cuce in television, waiting fora big break in movies, Like neighboring Toronto, Scarborough has grown into a patchwork of ghettos, where the violent crime levels fluctuate from bluck to block, but crime. in gener- al, has been steadily rising. You dou't let your kids out it night unescorted, put it that way. And there are phives where you're & foal to stop for groceries. The reputation of Searburough's rough, ricisin-haunted schools was such that we decided to send our kids 10 out-of-district schools with excellent records of racial harmony. (Funny how this became more important than academics, although, of course, that was an important factar.) It requires alot of extra driving, and jockeying of schedules, but seemed worth its the price of peace, as it were, . 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