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The Queen

A PERFECT marriage? By some accounts, no.
A happy family? Not hardly. A bridge from the
past to the present and to the future? Yes.

This week marks the 50th year of Queen Eliza-
beth II’s reign as the sovereign of Great Britain
and of the Commonwealth.

Over five decades, the Queen has performed
her duties as the symbol from which flows the
structure of government, laws and tradition that
makes up the foundation of not only this country,
but of many throughout the world.

On the world stage, the Queen has presided
over the dismantlement of the British Empire in
favour of the Commonwealth. She has seen the
Cold War divide the world into two camps
which, at times, threatened the existence of all
peoples.

These have not been easy decades. The evolu-
tion of the Commonwealth, particularly in Africa,
has not resulted in the enjoyable fruits of demo-
cracy. At least the Cold War has now ended and
with it, the prospect of nuclear annihilation.

One of the proudest moments of the Queen’s
reign had to have been the day in 1995 when the
Royal Family stood on the balcony of Bucking-
ham Palace and joined in the 50th anniversary ce-
lebrations of the end of the Second World War. It
is that war, above all else, which tested the ability
of nations to triumph over ultimate evil.

Sadly, a lot of what the Queen represents isn’t
well known anymore. To some the idea of a
monarchy is old-fashioned and silly. Blame mod-
ern education for it has failed to provide the
knowledge necessary to understand the connect-

ing role the monarchy has played.in the develop- |.

ment of Canada and the rest of the world.
As a symbol of continuity and of history, the
Queen has filled her role admirably. Happy anni-

D-Day

TOPPING THE list of extraordinary events has
to be the invasion of Europe on June.6, 1944,

As dawn broke over the English Channel many
thousands of soldiers made their way ashore in
small landing boats to re-take Europe from Nazi
Germany. Backing them up were sailors and air-
men, Some hours previously, paratroopers had
descended from the skies to secure vital roads
and bridges.

Across Canada today people will stop and re-
call. Now in their 70s and 80s, these people either
took part in the invasion or were involved in
some other fashion.

These people will have their private memories
of June 6, 1944. They will be memories of lost
comrades, friends and family members. But as
private as those memories are, we owe our public
thanks for what they accomplished.

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CHRETIEN DOES SOME
SPRING CLEANING

Liberal opposition too fractured

VICTORIA — The 20,000
people rallying in Vancouver
two Saturdays ago to express
their opposition to the Liberal
government’s policies would
obviously like to see a differ-
ent government in power.

Alas, unless the widely dif-
fering groups opposing the
Liberals come to some politi-
cal understanding, that’s not
likely to happen, not in the
next election anyway.

Not unlike former Social
Credit premier Bill Vander
Zaim before him, Gordon
Campbell, the Premier, has
managed to alienate a wide
spectrum of the papulation.

Trade unions are the target
of the most concerted assault
in decades. The Labour Code
has been gutted, the minimum
wage reduced to $6.

The doctors are at the end
of a bitter dispute with the
government. The nurses
haven’t forgotten how they

ares

means fear for their future.

Public servants go to work
in the morning, not knowing if
they still have job that night.
In all, more than 10,000 will
be let go over the next three
years. The poor are even more
scared.

Meanwhile, environmental-
ists are convinced that Camp-
bell’s agenda bodes ill for
British Columbia's environ-
ment. They dan’t rule out the

FROM THE- CAPITAL
HUBERT BEYER

privatization of forest, 95 per
cent of which is now in the
hands of the public.

They oppose the possible
drilling for off-shore oil. The
lifting of the moratorium on
grizzly bear hunting, they ex-
pect, is only a first small step
in a complete abrogation of
responsibility for the pro-
vince’s wildlife.

oi. But What! are they’ going to
do about it? The parties and*

interest groups ta the left of
the Liberal government are so
fractured that, unless they can
find a way of coming together,
they ensure another massive
Liberal Victoria three years
down the road.

They should take a page
out of Campbell’s book. The
moment he became leader of
the then Liberal opposition
party, he set about uniting the
right. It wasn’t easy. After the

1991 election, which saw the
once mighty Social Credit
Party reduced to a handful of
seats and the Liberals form the
opposition to the NDP, the
tight was as fractured as the
left is now.

Campbell succeeded in
bringing the Socred leftovers
into the Liberal fold, at the
same time convincing former
Social Credit supporters that

oi their future was with the Lib-

eral Party. He then margina-
lized a number of other right-
wing parties.

It all paid off at the polls a
year ago. Voters swept the
Liberals to power with 77
seals, leaving the opposition
NDP with a paltry two seats.

It didn’t have to be quite
such a dramatic defeat for the
left, had they combined forces,
Instead they fought each other.

The Greens, ideologically a
close ally of the NDP, turned
on that party with a ven-

Beafice::,.Theredgon? "Like ‘a

spoiled child, the Greens were
angry. that they didn’t get
everything they asked for from
the NDP.

They knew that a Liberal
government wouldn't be half
as supportive of their aims, but
the radicals in the environ-
mental movement did every-
thing possible to make sure the
NDP would be defeated.

In Nelson-Creston, for in-
stance, Calleen McCrory, an
award-winning and radical en-

vironmentalist, ran for the
Greens against the NDP’s
Corky Evans, one of the best
people ever elected to the B.C.
Legislature.

She didn’t win, but neither
did Corky. However, the com-
bined forces of the NDP and
the Green Party would have se-
cured Corky’s re-election.

Similar scenarios played
themselves out in numerous
other ridings, In Victoria’s two
ridings, the Liberals won by 35
and 82 votes. The Green Party
got 5,453 and 4,142 votes re-
spectively.

Even the Marijuana Party
votes would have swung the
seats to the NDP, Most of the
pot party’s candidates were for-
mer NDP supporters.

If those three parties some-
how succeeded in putting aside
their differences, the Legisla-
ture would be a different place
after the next election.

I am not saying the Liberals

awguld be,defeated, 'bubfthey

would at least have to face a

.more. formidable opposition

than they do now. And that, I
submit, would be beneficial to
the democratic pracess.

If the opposition forces to
the Liberals remain fractured,
Campbell will enjoy a long,
long reign.

Beyer can be reached at:
E-mail: hubert@coolcom.com;
Tel (250) 381-6900; Web
hitp:iwww.hubertbeyer.com

Your teeth determine health.

A HEADACHE you may think
is caused by job stress or eye-
strain from tao much reading
with eyeglasses overdue for a
stronger prescription could
well be pain referred from pro-
biem teeth.

At least twice in my life
I’ve suffered recurrent head-
aches to the point where I was
eating aspirin. During the most
recent occurrence, my neck
felt stiff, and I couldn’t find a
comfortable sleeping position.
Yet following a visit or two to
my dentist for fillings or rela-
ted work, my headaches dis-
appeared, taking the neck
stiffness with them.

Had I not been aware teeth
can cause headaches, I might
have hauled myself to an op-
tometrist for an eye pressure
check to be sure I wasn’t de-
veloping glaucoma. Or I might
have sought a chiropractor to
manipulate my neck joints.
But that wasn’t the treatment I
needed. I would have wasted
time and money.

Recently [ had to switch
dentists when my regular dent-
ist moved to Washington
State, As a new patient, ] was
asked to fill our a dental his-

THROUGH BIFOCALS

CLAUDETTE SANDECKI

tory, One question snagged my
attention: do you have any
pain in your ears? If you did,
and you chose to medicate
yourself with ear drops, you
would prolong your discomfort.

Good teeth lead to better
digestion, better nutrition, and
a healthier body. Not to men-
tion a happier disposition.
Sound teeth even protect
against heart attacks,

Oral surgeon Thomas Boe
of Atlanta, Geargia says,
“Chronic dental infection can
lead to heart disease, valve
failure and ultimately death.”

For years doctors have
known that dental infections
pose a risk to heart valves. Dr.
Boc says, “We aware often
called to operating rooms be-
fore bypass surgery to remove
infected teeth, Almost to the
patient, the ones who came in
for heart surgery has an asso-
ciated dental problem.”

New research suggests that
dental infections also may be
implicated in hardening of the
arteries, heart attack, stroke
and pre-term births.

Marjorie Jeffcoat, a resear-
cher at the University of Ala-
bama, studied 120 women and
found that women with dental
infections were three limes
more likely to have premature
infants,

Jeffcoat reasons that as
other infections have been
shown to cause premature
births, dental infections might
too. [f so, it would help explain
why women unable to gain ac-
cess to dental care, have pre-
mature, low birth weight in-
fants.

Premature and low-birth-
weight infants run up large
hospital bills for their treat-

ment before they are well en-
ough to be discharged home.
To think that something so
simple and inexpensive as rou-
tine dental care for expectant
mothers could save the medi-
cal costs and give more babies
a healthy start in life is some-
thing our legislators ought to
take seriously.

Unfortunately, since the cut-
backs to union jobs, many
people suffer their tooth-related
pain because they can’t afford
ta seek dental treatment. Only
those fortunale enough to have
dental insurance as part of their
employment benefits know the
luxury of regular visits to a

dentist for preventive checkups .

and prompt treatment of cavi-
ties or related causes of mouth
infections. ,
Modern dentistry being as
painless as it is, | often come
close to snoring while the dent-
ist pokes about preparing of a
crown, there’s little reason ex-
cept financial to avoid those
twice yearly check-ups.
Affordable, universal dental
insurance would save Canada
untold dollars in medical costs.

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