8 ~ Wednesday, Noveraber 20, 1985 - North Shore News Doug Collins ® get this straight THE DENIZENS of the Capilano constituency don’t need to buy themselves a turkey for Christmas. They’ve already got one. Her name is Mary Collins. Anyone who doubts that should get a copy of Equali- ty For All,the parliamen- tary committee loonytoon that proposes the unrestricted admission to the RCMP, etc., of fairies, lesbians and other strange people. The thing is even dafter than 1 thought it would be, and our girl is one of the seven signatories, “Take a stiff drink before reading them. | Zhey’re not good | for the blood pressure.’’ See | ‘But that’s only part of ‘| the story. For the rest, you 1 have to go down to her of- |-fice and get her collected speeches, But take a stiff ‘drink before reading them. They are not good for the blood presssure. They show that Collins is the reddest of Red Tories and would fit quite well into the NDP or the Liberal Par- _ty. She’s sold on all of the batty social ideas that were first put. forward by her so- called political opponents, and if you voted for her in the. belief that she would represent man-in-the-street opinion, you were conned. The passwords, shib- boleths and jargon favored by.the liberal-Left flow over ‘| her lips like oi]. Words like “sacism,’' ‘‘sexism,”* ‘‘af- firmative action’ (meaning reverse discrimination) and -**community, infrastruc- ture’? (meaning | know not what) come as naturally to her as they did to the lips of Kathleen Ruff, the NDP human rights ogre who once wielded the whip here in B.C. Collins positively dotes on the idea of affirmative action and its corollaries. Should employers be forced to provide lists of visible minority employees, so that the majority can be discriminated against? Of course. Should they be sub- ject to fines of up to. $50,000 for failing to pro- vide breakdowns on how many visible minorities they have on staff? Naturally. Then there's ‘‘ghettoiza- tion’. You ladies out theré probably didn’t know you've been ‘‘ghettoized’’. . But not to worry. Mary is riding to the rescue, and all that’s going to be changed. Come to think of it, Gilbert and Sullivan must be sorry they’re dead, because some of Collins’s stuff about. women would be good for the old music halls: She quotes the egregious Status of Women, for instance, to prove that in households where the children are 10 years of age or older, the rotten lousy husbands’ do only three hours of housework a week. She also says that when the “homemaker” takes a job, ‘“‘the husband’s time spent. on housework in- creases by only six minutes per week’’. (Jeez, and I thought it was only two!) Housewives’ work, she -calculates dottily, is worth $136 billion, or 35 to 40 per cent of the Gross, National ‘Product. It is this “unpaid domestic work” that gives: men an unfair advantage in “the work force. Perhaps a little government interven- tion in the home would | change that? She doesn't say. But she does hint strongly that “homemakers"’ should be given the Canada Pension Plan. (Never mind that the thing is already nearly bankrupt.) When the “equality com- -] mittee’’ was in these parts, Margot Furk of Canadian Women for Free Enter- prise, and Peggy Steacy of REAL. Women of Canada said they didn’t need government help to make their, way in life. Furk com- mitted the further heresy of telling the committee it | shouldn’t delude itself into thinking that the weirdo groups appearing before it represented public opinion. It is clear that in Collins’s view, Furk and Co. are dim-witted. For she said in the House on Oct. 3: ‘There are Canadians who don’t under- stand. They see as a society which prizes individual freedom.”’ “There are Canadians who. don’t understand. They see Canadian society as a society which prizes in- dividual freedom and responsibility...The Horatio Alger myth is perpetrated in Canada, and a lot of people think that that is the way you should do it, alot of women, too.’ . See what I mean? ” ‘Turkey buyers of the world unite... WV schoolboard $164,000 short WEST VANCOUVER schools are facing a pro- jected $164,000 budget defi- cit for the 1986-87 school year, The estimated financial shortfall was disclosed to the West Vancouver School Board Monday night in a report by the board’s finance committee. In presenting the report, trustee Michael Smith said the West Vancouver school district had 46 more students than had been budgetted for by the board earlier this year. Instead of 4,734, West Vancouver’s school District 45 was faced with educating 4,780 students. Though the shortfall fig- ure represents approximately one per cent of District 45's $16,729,000 July °85 to June 86 operating budget, Smith said any deficit, because of the district’s battered fiscal framework, ‘could place the West Vancouver school system in a difficult financial position in the 1986-87 school year. In making a motion for the board to lobby the ministry of education for a return to local communities . . [. of local autonomy over their Canadian society | school budgets, Smith said, “It’s time we laid the cards on the table as to the posi- tion this district will be in in 1986-87. We need to take some aggressive action. ,! think we have come through the period of restraint in good shape, but there is just no flexibility left.” Though Smith pointed out the district currently enjoyed a $450,000 surplus and had made savingS such as the $130,000 from West Van school board’s North Shore Union Board of Health fun- ding agreement, both would not be in the budget next year. “The main point here,’ Smith said after the meeting, ‘is that West ‘Vancouver made all the sacrifices and came through the three-year restraint’ period .responsibly and we end up looking down -|Sutton- Brown rites Thursday | A MEMORIAL SERVICE for the late Gerald Sutton- Brown, a former ‘distinguished public servant “and couver resident, will be held tomorrow in Horseshoe Bay. : Sutton-Brown . died sud- denly.- November 8 while vacationing in San Diego: He was 74. . Emigrating: to B. c. from Britain'.in 1952, he became planner for the City of Van- couver and during the next several years was responsible for the planning initiatives | which made possible today’s highrise downtown core. He was later promoted to City Commissioner, an ap- pointment in which he serv- longtime West Van- - ed until fis. retirement ‘in 1973. Sutton-Brown made West — Van his home from his ar- rival in 1952 onward. An en- thusiastic golfer, he was an active and popular member of the Capilano ..Golf & Country Club. He is survived by his wife Joan; daughter Ann and two grandchildren in England; brothers Don in Jamaica and Hunter in Vancouver; sisters Dorothy in Vancouver and _ Gladys in England. The memorial service at St. Monica’s Anglican Church, Horseshoe Bay, conducted by Rev. 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