, Doug
Collins

on the
EN other hand

WATCHING the
Leader of the House of
Lies popping his inno-
cent eyes in the direc-
tion of the
teleprompter the other
night I thought of a
quote from Henry
Mintzberg, an expert
on something called
management theory:
“The higher a monkey
climbs, the more you
can see its ass.”

There was Glen, right at
the top of the pole, fully
exposed, spending $150,000
to tell us how he plans to
spend less money.

He was in his smarm
mode. You would never have
thought he is the guy who is
using your money to sick his
human rights Thought
Police on to the press, or
who refuses to let critical
publications like B.C. Report
magazine know when press
conferences are tu be held,
even though they are taxpay-
ers, too.

- The big spender is sud-
denly money conscious, Not
the same man, obviously,

who as finance minister told
us:

“We're shovelling money
off the back of a truck.”

You would never have
thought, either, that he had
baptized every politically cor-
rect group in the province
with grant money.

Has he sucked anyone in?
Only the 38% who voted for
him, But that support has
probably sunk to 20%.

One guy he didn’t
deceive is David
Stockell of
Kelowna, the
businessman
who is mount-
ing a court chal-
lenge against
the NDP for
what he cails
Clark's fraudu-
lent election vie-
tory.

Stockell and
his friends are
after him like
beagles after a
fox. His group
is called HELP
(Help Eliminate
Lying
Politicians).

A similar but separate
group has been organized by
Liz James on the North
Shore, It’s Dissolve B.C.,
meaning “get rid of the
NDP by petition to the Lr.
Governor.”

She claims it is nor impos-
sible, that it was last done in
1903, and thar she is getting
plenty of support. (Tel: 988-
2066.)

Stockell and James take
their foxes seriously, The

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“A wine-
bibber myself,
I still wonder

why grants
are given to
some wine
companies.
Why not give
grants to the
wine drinkers,
too?

same goes for people who
have researched the NDP's
grant-giving,

Much of the govern-
ment’s comfort comes
through bribes given to spe-
cial interest groups.

There was a lot of detail
on that on the Internet the
other day, obtained from
press reports and sources like
The Ministry of Finance and
Corporate Relations.

Recent grants, given
mostly in the
1994/95 finan-
cial year, were as
thick as a north-
ern snowstorm,
Here are some
samples.

The First
People’s
Heritage,
Language and
Cultural Council
got $1,974,526
while the Indian
Homemakers
Association had
to put up with a
mere $156,877,
poor things.
First Nations
Health Initiatives got
$1,240,349; the Aboriginal
Sports and Recreation
Association $149,900, and
the Native Fishing
Association $16,000. This
even though the Indians are
privileged as far as fishing is
concerned,

Ever favorable to the
third sex, the NDP gave the
Vancouver Lesbian

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the Gay & Lesbian
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Alternatives Lifestyles
‘Yogether Laid. reportedly
received $251,248.

Every ethnic association
has its hand our and most of
them double-dip federally.

Phe Surrey- Delta
Immigrant Services Society
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were married to it.

End Legislated Poverty
(ELS) is one, which was list-
ed as getting $175,000, (A
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was actually $178,500.)

Jean Swanson is with
ELS. She’s a gal who keeps
popping up as an NDP can-
didate in the provincial elec-
tions.

The Society for the
Advancement of Noncoercive
Education ($26,860), what-
ever that may be. Then
there’s the Maharishi Age of
Enlightenment School
Society, which was good for
$54,410.

If you want some govern-
ment money, be in the right
kind of group.

And why should business-
es get grants? A wine-bibber
myself, I still wonder why
grants are given to some

wine companies. Why not
give grants to the wine
drinkers, too? Instead, taxes
on liquor are increased —
after Clark promised there
would be no new taxes.

As for the NDP’s
“economies,” expect none
for the misnamed B.C.
Human Rights Council --
not unless its new recruits
are working for nothing.

A friend of mine had it
right about the big broad-
cast. “Clark must live ina
house with no corners. He
has no place to hide.”

— The North Shore News
believes strongly in freedom of
speck and the right of all sides
in a debate to be heard. The
columnists published in the
News present differing points
of view, but those views are not
necessa ily those of the newspa-
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