HARMLESS THOUGH I am, I seem to worry some peo-
ple. I get the impression, for instance, that Mary-Jane Shaw
of West Vanceuver sticks pins into a doll named Doug every

nisi before going bye-byes.

Mary-Jane, bless her little
Reform Party heart, is upset about
my having faced down Preston
Manning at a recent meeting in
West Van, Preston being her lead-
er and teacher. So upset is she, in-
deed, that she wrote a hysterical
missive to this newspaper which
appeared last Sunday under the
headline ‘‘Dong Collins’ way is not
the Reform Party way.’

There was also a screed from
Neil Thompson under the heading
“Reform Party idea bigger than
Collins.”

The letters dealt with my abor-
tive attempts to run for that party,
and it will please both writers to
know that I thoroughly agree with
the sentiments expressed in the
headlines, at least.

But there are a couple of things
that must be pointed out, the first
being that Mary-Jane should have
been honest and identified herself.

She is the wife of Gordon Shaw,
the first vice-chairman of the party
and Mr. Manning’s boy, so to
speak. Thompson, of course, is the
one who tried to pick up the pieces
after Manning nixed the Collins
candidacy. Both are Mann-
ing-firsters.

Why are they so concerned
about something which is history?
Much though I regret to pursue the
discussion, it is because the ‘‘Col-

lins affair” won't go away. It dogs ©

their every move. It plagues their
phones. They still hear it daily.

As Manning himself stated at
the above-mentioned meeting, it
arose even during the recent by-
election in Alberta in which
Deborah Grey was elected. It is
also a fact that it led to an untold
number of resignations and loss of
funds. So don’t look at me, folks.
Look at Manning and Shaw, both
of whom were too dense to see

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‘A wide-ranging agenda looked
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Las! year the mountain attracted
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Ald. Ernie Crist declined the in-
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district council meeting.

‘{ don’t feel it is appropriate for
council to be wined and dined by a
potential developer,’ said Crist.

Ald. Craig Clark said he thought
the mecting a progressive step and
an excellent opportunity ‘‘to get

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what they were doing in giving this
“*racist’’ the bum’s rush.

The issue is not so much Collins,
though, as that Manning denied
his own party principles in nixing
the candidacy after it had been
approved overwhelmingly by the

sow ate raters

9 ~ Sunday, June 11, 1989 - North Shore News

leadership, for the good of the
party as a whole, should have the
final say as to who shall represent
the party as a candidate.’ Really?
I wonder where she gets that from?
The very day before her letter
appeared, a Lower Mainland

Tite fact is that Reformers do not want to
be a party like the others. They want the
constituency to be boss, as promised by

Manning.’’

constituency. *‘Let the people be
heard,’? was Manning’s loud cry in
denouncing the people-ignoring
ways of the regular parties. Yes.
But not when you have a man who
means what he says about things
like immigration.

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Mary-Jane’s claim that ‘‘most
Reformers believe that the party

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Reform Party meeting was held in
the Coach House Inn and 59 per
cent of the delegates voted in favor
of removing the leader’s power of
veto over candidates. And that was
a direct result of the Collins affair.
The fact is that Reformers do
not want to be a party like the
others. They want the constituency
to be boss, as promised by Mann-

ing. They do not want it to be a
rubber stamp for manipulators.
(Manning did not even consult his
executive in the Collins issue. They
were informed only after the
event.)

Don’t take my word for any of
this. Just read the resolution pass-
ed by the North Vancouver consti-

-tuency right after Preston dropped

his bomb.

It stated that his action had done
“irreparable harm’’ to the party;
that it was in direct contravention
of the party’s stated position with
regard to signing candidates’
nomination papers; that Manning
had violated the principle that the
decision of members and constitu-
ents should be paramount, and
that those responsible should
resign.

Did I say Mary-Jane was upset?
An understatement. The night I
faced Manning down in West Van
she was hooting and hollering like
a fish-wife. Most unladylike. But I
spoke for two reasons: first, it is
my style to challenge people to
their faces; second, Manning's of-
fice had been dispensing what I
might call the Kremlin's version of
events.

Manning had no answers that
night and has none now,

Am I upset? Don’t be silly. As
you read this, | am on Spud Island
watching the whales go, And but
for Preston I might have been
stewing in Ottawa, trying to save
the country. Have a nice day @

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