YOU ARE now doing your best to recover from 1994, and with good reason. So here are some more quotes

~ from the year that just died. Some funny, some not. But

all of them food for thought.

You don't even speak French. You should stay home. —— Open- line caller to Preston Manning; in Montreal,

I'm glad to be out of Ottawa, 3,000 miles from Sheila Copps. — Kim Campbell.

You have to go to the post office and be interviewed by a Chinese or an Indian, I'm not particularly racist but I find that ludicrous. — Dame Joan Sutherland, the Australian opera star.

’ We are in hock up to our eye- balls. That can’t be sustained. ~—- ° Finance Minister Paul Martin; giv- ing us the gears again.

Words, words, words, —- The Bloc Quebecois’ Lucien Bouchard; replying to Martin.

Doing it in the 90s. — Title of a booklet on which the Ottawa has spent half a million bucks. Reform MP Myron Thompson said it was

. nothing more than a sex recipe for gay men. (Mr. Martin, meet Mr.

_ Thompson. He may be able to help

. you.)

None of us really knew what we were doing. We just seemed to issue cheques or hire people. If there was

some up-and-comer ... who might

- become a threat, we would hire him. — Civil servant Brian

--Melnnis; blowing the whistle on . ithe Multicult Department. (Another chance for Mr. Martin. }

“Churchill must be turning in his rave, — War veteran; on Sir» Winston Churchill School’s teach-

_ ,ers‘and kids deciding not to buy Remembrance Day poppies.

lackey. night for Canada, —

Headline in the Vancouver Sun on

ON THE OTHER HAND |

Racial intolerance is all around us. We just have to read a certain individual's column in the newspa- per. — North Van District social planner Erica Bell-Lowther. (And a Happy New Year to you, too, sweetheart.)

He hides behind freedom of speech, — Canadian Jewish Congress spokesman Michael Elterman; proving that your man’ Doug can do the impossible.

World peace eludes world body. — Headline in Globe and Mail. (Give us some news, please.)

Tax money spent on teaching a child the basics of English is less money spent ona child who already speaks Engiish. — Letter

to editor,

Those academies in Victoria have never had any rain in their lunch-buckets. That's why they are so keen on conservation. — Mayor Gerry,Furney of Port McNeil.

Gutsy, eccentric newspaper edi- tors have been replaced by a gen- eration born to be mild. They stoked but th ey never inhaled, —

Professor Kes Jowitt of the

the morning of the ‘day that saw our -/’ University. ‘of California,

biggest riot. ;

Public. opinion shouldn ‘dictate

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immigration policy. — limmigration Minister Sergio Marchi; on hearing from the Reform party’s Art Hauger that most Canadians want fewer immigrants.

-A-million Arabs are not worth a single Jewish fingernail. — Israeli rabbi; after the death of the man who killed 30 Arabs in the Hebron mosque.

At the sound of the beep, seize this tape. — Editorial headline in

‘the Globe; on the idiocies of the

Canadian Human Rights Commission in going after people who put “hate messages” on their phones.

The first catamaran should be called The Spirit of Glen Clark, — Jack Weisgerber. of the Reform party; on NDP cabinet minister Clark's plan to spend another $800 million on the ferry system.

Being attacked by the leader of the Opposition is a bit like being called ugly by a toad. — Glen Clark; on Liberal leader Gordon Campbell.

They are neither new nor demo- cratic but they are a purty. - North Shore MLA David Mitchell on the NDP.

If you had an election in Kruger Park, who would win? The antelopes, because they are in the majority, But would the lions accept it? — Chairman of the Kaffir River Farmers Union in South Africa; on how the white: right is preparing to resist the new government. .

They wanted me to be a janitor. opening the door with a polite bow. — Former Immigration and Refugee Board member Paidraig O’Donahue, Q.C.; on his disgust at the refugee policies of the IRB

bosses in Ottawa. -

And now for 1995, which. should provide even better fodder. Especially from the B.C. Human Rights Council and its buddies, if - you know what I mean. ;

Have a good one.

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Praise for White

Dear Editor:

Being a government politi- cian is nat an easy job. I, for one, am the first to admit that and ask: Who do we put into power who will get the job done and clean up this country’s mess?

I have had the pleasure of dealing with North Vancouver MP Ted White in my riding.

in his dealings with my situa- tion I have not been sidestepped, brushed off, patronized or lied

to,

I find Mr, White to be honest. forthright, sincere, helpful and - caring.

! have tearned a valuable fes-’. son. It is important to get to know the person you are voting . for -- someday you may need help. i

Will he or she have these’ qualities? i Barbara Mayer North Vancouver ~

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