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— EDITORIAL,

. “Oink, oink. That’s the sound of a pig ina
poke and that’s what a lot of people say

" native’self-government is if there’s a “yes’
' vote Oct. 26,

‘Forget Quebec and all that dumb wran-
gling over how many seats that province
should get in the House of Commons. Na-
tive self-government, particularly in B.C.,
is the big sleeper issue in the proposed

changes.

Of course native self-government is a
scary prospect. It’s not every day, or every
century, that a new level of government is
created to move into previously uncharted
territory. °
--And that territory will remain relatively
unknown for a long time if there is a “yes’
vote. For what the self-government clauses
in the proposed changes set up is a frame-

- work upon which to provide later specifics.

-Consider Section 41, the one dealing with
| tight to native —self-
government. It sets up the authority to
“safeguard and develop ... languages, cul-
tures, economies, identities, institutions

Battle begins

- §keena MP Jim Fulton and Helmut Gies-

brecht, his provincial counterpart, are

_ : ¢lever people. Like others, they’ve picked

up on the predominant undercurrent con-
‘cerning the proposed constitutional
It’s an anger against all

Both, speaking at a public meeting last
week held to discuss the changes, said it

~- would be a shame if voters turfed the Char-

lotte Accord simply as a protest vote

- Gigantic leap ©

and traditions.”* Tie this in with provisions
for native governments to over ride the
Charter of Rights and Freedoms and a lot
of people are worried.

The main worry in the northwest stems
from our economic dependence upon
resources — trees, minerals and fish. There
aren’t a lot of slices left in this pie, The
ones who have the forks, get the most.

Native self-government is tied absolutely
and completely to a land and resources
base. You can’t have one without the
other,

Also added to this is a hidden fear of
some kind of native pay back, Somebody
who has been kicked around quite natural-
ly might want revenge. And those who
have done the kicking have that in the back
of their minds.

A ‘yes’ vote involves a gigantic leap of
faith. And that means a tremendous plac-

~ ing of trust in our governments — includ-

ing those of the natives — to do the right
and proper thing. It is a challenging pros-
pect. :

be cast on the merits of the accord.

But they also reminded those at the meet-
ing that there is a federal election next
year. Mr. Giesbrecht has been saying, for
instance, that voters will ‘‘have another
crack at it.”’ And Mr. Fulton says he wants
a ‘yes’ vote so he can hit the campaign

trail-and“attack“the"Tory' free tradd"agtee #6" BIC Dahil of’ Socialists!"

ments.
This kind of thing might be viewed as”

sneaky, if not cynical. Yet it is also the

definite sign that the unofficial federal

than a millionaire after a
loonie, they choose this time

to make a speech so long the

Constitutional Accord is but a

memo.

‘Men who have infinite
patience with nuts and bolts
smaller than shrunken jewel-
er’s screws can’t bring them-
selves to close a door if they
plan to walk through it again
any time before midnight.

Even grizzled grandfathers
who've never been close to the
epicenter of anything more
earth-shaking than a domestic
tiff and who wouldn’t know a
Richter scale from dental pla-
que seck the sanctuary of open
doorways, ignoring all links to
heating costs.

When a man fills a doorway
in summer, we indulge him,
believing he knows not what
he does. But during a cold
snap, it would be fine if he’d

-not prop the door open wide
with one toe like Baryshnikov
en pointe while feeling about
among Sweepstakes ads and
ashtrays for his Bic.

These are the same men who
build porches ‘to break the
wind’’. Maybe what they real-
ly have in mind are wind tun-
nels - to increase velocity and
test our immune systems.

» These are also the same men
who-cling to their dashboard
thermal mugs, whine at the
sight of a dropped stitch in
their woolen socks, and rush

to caulk a pinhole draft near

their recliner.

Perhaps holding a door open
is a confidence builder similar.
to impeccable tailoring, sport-
ing mag wheels, or juggling
pocket coins until you want to
scream, ‘“‘Ottawa, mint more
dollar bills!’

I'd like to see every outside
door fitted with a giant spring
that - on signal - would yank
the knob out of a man’s hand
and catapult him backward
into the lawn clippings.

Although any open-to-the-
weather door works for a man,
some doors offer him more
points than others.

Topping the list is a door ac-
cessing a confined space, such
as travel trailer, that can be
cooled to meatpacking
frigidity in seconds, Next is a
room with barefoot toddlers or
creeping babies. Holding the
door open to a kitchen during
the final moments of preparing
a roast supper is fine too.

There’s the cook wiping per-
spiration from her brow and
steam from the windows,
when her hero bursts in the
door. What a guy. He pauses
thoughtfully, shoves back his
parka hood with his other
hand, and waits for the cold
front to equalize the indoor
temperature.

Perhaps door frames give off
invisible ego-boosting ays
only men react to, Why else
would anyone risk my snarl?
Surely not to check on my

ability to win a hog-calling
contest.

It could also be standing in
doorways does for men what
preening before a mirror does
for women.

A woman turns this way and
that to make sure her skirt
hangs level, that no lipstick
clings to her incisors, that the
outfit she’s wearing doesn’t
bulge over the hips like a tele-
phone installer in full gear.
Only then is she set to brave
the world.

If I weren’t onc to catch a
sore throat just listening Lo an
unfavourable weather forecast,
I could cope with this idiosyn-
cratic habit men have of
making me shiver. However,
knowing that for the next two
days - to dry a drippy nose -
I'll be munching cold tablets
the way my granddaughter
chews Rosebuds, makes me
want to kick the door shut.
Hard

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and na

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Ve people...

Dreaded ‘R’ word

VICTORIA — While
Ontario NDP Premier Bob
Rae is still trving to spend his
way out of the recession, ex-

ect no such move from the

If my antennae are tuned
correctly, we're about to see a
reincarnation of Bill Bennett’s
restraint program.

services, laid off 10,000 public
servants, and raised all sorts of
fees and taxes. The result was
Solidarity, an extra-
parliamentary opposition of
unprecedented proportions.

At one point, more than
40,000 protesters assembled in
front of the Legislative Build-
ings in Victoria to let off
steam. There was the pos-

’ sibility of a general strike, and
there was open talk of ‘blood
in the sireets”’,

For the first time in British
Columbia’s history, the

_ premier had body guards -

grim-faced RCMP officers in
plain clothes, watching over
him. They even accompanied
him on the short walks from
his office to the legislative
chamber.

The potentially explosive
situation was averted only
when Bennett and then IWA
president Jack Munro reached
ihe so-called Kelowna Accord.

The NDP will do three
things, and do them soon: cut

raises ugly heaa

From the
. Capital... .....
by Hubert Beyer

time that his carlier predic-
tions of a $1.8 billion deficit
were too optimistic, His last
doubts were dashed with the
recent release of the first
quarterly financial report,
covering government revenues
and expenditures from April to
June 1992.

According to that report,
reveriues for the first quarter
were up 6.3 per cent, while ex-
penditures rose by 8.8 per
cent. That Ieft the deficit to
date at $525 million, com-
pared with earlier estimates of
only $402 million.

Applying a little basic math,
one comes to the inescapable

‘conclusion that by the end of

the fiscal year, the government
will have racked up a deficit
of more than $2 billion. Un-
less something is done about
it.

There are only two ways to
keep the deficit down: spend
less or charge more, The
government will do both. The
only question is how drastic

i against Mr, Mulroney and his Progressive _ election campaign has started. Let’s hope The fact is that revenues in services, reduce the number of the surgery will be.
k ' . oT , ve ° 3 B.C. have fallen alarmingly public servants, and raise all Meat .
a Conservatives, They said, and quite right- that political fatigue doesn’t cause VoteTS a at of expenditures, andmy sorts of fees and taxes I don’t wish to spread panic
4 é ? ? , M
i ly, that a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ vote should only to check out of the whole process. informants tell me that finance Ministrics have already been thew public servants, bt the ¢
i minister Glen Clark and his told in no uncertain terms to wes i
Y F . ae very least, I expect a hiring
staff have been busy preparing _cut their budgets during the [ : |
4 Nee: . . teeze, coupled perhaps with a
a anumber of initiatives aimed second half of the fiscal year. : |
: . i . voluntary retirement scheme.
a at keeping the deficit under At arecent meeting, deputy
a control. ministers were given their Talso expect an assortment
H In summer, kids hold doors You may remember that marching orders. | of fees and renee to be In-
: open letting in cats and flies. == Bennett didn’tendear himself The finance minister’s in- creased. And nex! year

In winter men do it. Through Qo large segments of the popu- structions were basic and to _-—«-«dudget, still four months

They swing the door open to roug Sy lation when he broughtinhis the point: ‘‘Don’tgivemerea- @WY> will have some steep

its maximum arc, then watch Bifocals restraint program. In fact, all sons why you can’t cut costs, '@* mereases.

frost build up on the linoleum. hell broke loose. just do il.” This government will not

If the mercury drops faster by Claudette Sandecki fk Bennett did three things: cut. © Clark has known for some mount a whole-sale disman-

tling of programs, as Bennett
did, but selective surgery will

result in some sharp cuts.

One of the services under
consideration for a drastic cut-
back is universal Pharmacare.
Rather than getting free
medication above and beyond
the basic deductible, there may
be a means test.

And frankly, I don’t see why
not. There isn’t a reason in the
world why Jimmy Pattison, or
Hubert Beyer for that matter,
should have his medication —
paid for by the taxpayers.

All of which makes for inter-
esting comparisons between
the Ontario government and
Mike Harcourt’s New Demo-
crats. Both are, no doubt, com-
milted to the basic tenets of
social democracy, but they are
clearly fallowing different
economic theories.

And the direction being ©
laken by the Harcourt govern-
ment makes it virtually in-
distinguishable from a conser-
vative government,