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A2-Wednesday, November 5, 1980 - North Shore News

A very ‘macha’ lady

I remember meeting Judy LaMarsh at a party in
Deep Cove, back in 1973, when she was doing a
morning talk show for CK WX.

for years, writing about their
varying degrees of
competence, and, ob yes,
ignorance.

There was Judy. No longer
a cabinet minister, and,

Undeci

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The overal results for the
North Shore were:

By areas,
was as follows:

NORTH V ANCOUVER
Ves........-..-.046- 12%
No ...-...22--200eee 61%
Undecided ..........- 27%

“Bird in a Gilded Cage”. I'd
mocked her in print as “Judy
LaSwamp”.

You don't reafly run into
that many women who are
accustomed to power, a
reflection of the fact that not
very many women have had
the experience of running a
huge organization, of having
hundreds or thousands of
people at their command.

Ms. Lamarsh obviously
had.

There were a lot of people
around at that party back in

1973, and she was, after all,
visiting royalty. It took a
while to get near her to
deliver a barb or two.

Well, it was like a yappy
little hound dog wandering
up to what looks to be

another tabby. only to
discover, poor beast, that he
has just tweeked a tiger.

Judy was quite kind.
really. In the brief verbal
sparring match that
followed, she wunmediately
proved herself to be smarter
than me, more
knowledgeable in every
respect except maybe occult
hterature, much more witty.
much more charming. much
more dangerous, and at least
three times as fast on her
mental feet as | was.

Well, that was quite a
shock, I must admit.

The kind part was that she

ed vote significant

WEST VANCOUVER
SC — 18%
No ...........-2--.-.- 43%
Undecided .......... 37%

The two neighborhoods
most loyal to Confederation
were Blueridge and Deep
Cove, m both of which not a
single respondent answered
“yes” to the survey question.
In Blueridge the results were
86% “no” and 14% “un-
decided”. Corresponding
figures for Deep Cove were

82% and 18%.

In sharp contrast were two
West Vancouver com-
munities.

In Ambleside the results
were 18% “yes”, 35% “no”
and a dramatic 47% “un-
decided”. Horseshoe Bay
respondents voted 18%

“yes”, 40% “no” and 42%
“undecided”.

The significant figure
overall is the high “un-
decided” response. When
this is taken mto account,

only a little over onc out of
every two North Shore
respondents (57%) presently
say they would not, under
any circumstances, support
separation.

In West Vancouver the
respondents firmly rejecting
separation under any cir-
cumstances (48%) are
presently a minority.

The poll was conducted
October 30, two days after
the federal budget
unveded.

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did 1 all with grace. like a
friendly grizzly bear that
says, “Okay kid, we'll
wrestle for a minute, and
then I'll let you go before
you start to panic and lose
face.”

This was, after all, the
woman who had built the
foundations for medicare
and the Canada Pension
Plan.

She was too, that very rare
creature: A woman who
served in the Second World
War as part of the Allied
Intelligence Service. And
just like almost all other war
vets, she had a little streak of
contempt in her for the soft
generation that had
followed.

She quit the Liberal Party
when Pierre Trudeau
became prime minister
because she wouldn't work

for anyone so “ruthless”.

Judy will be remembered
in history books for her bref
tenure on the political stage,
and her large achievements
in that me.

But what TH remember
her for is a_ lesson in
feminism that she gave me.
Strength, or presence, the
embodiment of will, per-
sonal power, whatever you
want to call it, doesn't have a
damned thing to do with
one’s sex. It’s entirely a
matter of the soul.

If she hadn't quit politics,
aod if — 12 days ago — she
hadn't been killed by cancer,
it occurs to me that she
would have been one of the
few women in the country
within reach of the polden
ring of the prime
ministership.

Can I say this? Judy was a
very macha lady.

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