Wednesday, May 22, 1996 ~ North Shore News — 7

len’s on everybody's side

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Collins

on the
§ other hand

THERE has been a lot
of publicity during this
election on the ethnic —
vote. Who is getting it,
and so on. And in last
week’s leadership
debate the politicians
were ail kow-towing to
the multicults.

Many words have been
spilled on that vote, but few
honest ones. No one has
shown how our immigration
policies are giving the eth-

Collins’

’ Dear Editor:

As a resident of North
Vancouver, I find it difficult to
believe that Doug Collins is in
any way representative of the

“people in this area.

Surely, very few can sub-
scribe to views as narrow and
‘unsympathetic as espoused by
this hate-monger.

It seems much more likely
to me that most read him with
-& Mixture of amazement and
dismay and that he has ulti-
mately few “fellow traveiers.”
If I'm wrong then it follows
that this is a dismal communi-
ty indeed.

My conclusion, after some
thought. is that most regard
him with such contempt that a
reply such as this is not felt
worth the effort. Or perhaps it

is the usual laziness — “I'll get.

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nics effective control over the
rest of us.

But it's something | pre-
dicted long ago.

An ad that appeared
recently in The Link, the East
Indian newspaper, was a
good example of the process.
tt showed a beaming Glen
Clark with what are
described as “two of the
most powerful cabinet minis-
ters in B.C. — Ujjal Dosanjh
and Moe Sihota. Plus MLA
Harry Lali.” It read further:

“Glen Clark and the NDP
are on your side: yesterday,
today and tomorrow, not just
at election time.

“Now is the time for the
Indo-Canadian community to
stand united behind one
party. one leader: Glen Clark
and the NDP team, On May
28 support your NDP candi-
date.

“They are on your side.”

True. So are the other par-
ties for that matter. They are
all for “diversity” as they

opined piously in the debate.
Bui the NDP are the champs.

That will nat be news to
followers of this column,

Last week an outraged
reader stued in a letter to the
editor that someone has only
to cough for me to make it
into an immigration story.

Not a bad line.

Unconsciously right, too,
seeing that Third World
immigrants ure bringing so
much TB into the country,

My fascination comes
from secing a country desert-
ing itself.

Election or no election, I
would have given the cough
lady a rest from: strenuous
matters today and written
about pretty flowers or my
old Aunt Maud. But colum-
nist Mark Schwartz, writing
in the Wall Street Journal,
has summed up our situation
very neatly and J thought you
should know about it.

This country, he said, is
an example of what

Americans should avoid,

Our multicultural poticies
are “washing away all ves-
tiges of Canada's already iH-
defined national character...

“Most troubling” is the
“athnic accentuation of
recent immigrants who have
eschewed a Canadian identity
in favor of their traditional
ethnocultural make up."

The ad in The Link shows
the process in action. Aided
and abetted, of course, by
politicians who couldn’‘t care
less what happens provided
they get a vote; and by a
population cowed by the 'R*
word.

Canada’s “fragile union”
is endangered, says
Schwartz. “The component
of a national identity -— a
single language, a common
set of values, the adherence
to certain creeds and the
common celebration of the
country's history, are ties that
bind the people of a nation.

“State-spansored (and

readership questioned

around to my rebuttal at some
point.” which is a litte less
charitable, but equally plausi-
ble.

Whatever the reason, there
remains then a curious prob-
lem -—- why does the North

Shore News continue to print.

this man's columns which are
odious to so many?

The North Shore News
provides a valuable service. to
its readers and has many inter-
esting features.

I see litle evidence in the
paper of an unfairness towards
rinorities.

The assumption that doubt-
less underlies the continued
presence of Collins in an other-
wise decent newspaper is that

there is readership out there
that finds him appealing. This
assumption, I'm certain, is
false. Please get him out of
your pages!

Raiph Lake

North Vancouver

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financed) multicultural poli-
cies, on the other hand,
encourage the development
of separate, competing, cth-
nic identities. This serves to
weaken the glue holding the
components of a nation’s
identity together, thereby
destabilizing it.”

He quotes Jan Brown, one
of the MPs ditched by
Preston Manning, as having
said:

“Every dollar spent on
multiculturalism is a dollar
spent on the breakup of
Confederation.”

She said that before
Manning gave her the old
heave-ho and it surprised me
that she should hold such an
opinion. She, after all, is set
against “extremism” and
belongs by rights in the
Liberal Party.

There are quotes from
another source thal our polit-
ically correct media must
have missed. The chairman
of the Royal Commission on
Canada's Future declared:

“State-funded multicultur-
alisin ... was an anthology of
terrors: [causing] baikaniza-
tion...ghetto mentalities,
destabilization of Quebee,
reverse intolerance by immi-
grants for Canadian culture
and institutions, and the
devaluation of the very idea,
of a common nationality.”

We were the first country
to enact multicult legislation, °
says the writer, and we may
also be the first to collapse
because of it.

There’s another cough for
you, lady. Sorry about that.
Anyway, don't forget to vote
NDP so that we can all dance
around Glen Clark's large
multicult maypole.

Glen is on their side. You
have his word for it.

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