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Sugar and Spice
Well, T don't hate it at all. I thoroughly
enjoy it. So here goes.
Nearly a year ago, I wrote a column
about the vultures gathering to rend and
tear at the still-quivering flesh of the
Liberal party in general, and the Prime
Minister in particular,
Remember? The Tories, still flushed
with excitement after electing a new
leader, were in a state of euphoria. Why?
Because public opinion polls showed them
steadily gaining • in popular appeal, and
Liberals steadily decreasing.
Political pundits across the country were
trumpeting the beginning of a new era.
The Liberals were pretty blue. Trudeau„
was all washed up, said the experts, licking
their lips. The government was on the
ropes, waiting for the knock-out punch.
At the time, I tried to introduce a note of
rea:,,.):1, or at least common sense. Almost
alonk. among the prophets, I ,warned that,
while he big Liberal machine was creaking
and s€ med almost moribund at times; it
was ,ot. quite ready for extreme unction,
I remember asking bluntly: "What dO
you think all those Liberals across the
country are going to do? Lie down and play
dead?" I reminded readers that while
Trudeau seemed the most unpopular man
in the country, so had that perennial
winner, Mackenzie King.
Nobody paid any heed. A few people
paid me the extreme insult of insisting that.
only a dyed-in-the-wool Liberal would have
ftitten such a comment.
Thep, mysteriously, the polls began to
change. The Tories big edge began to slip,
even though the government went on
bumbling arid bungling. -
Now,.after almost a year, the figures are
reversed. The Tories were wiped in
by-elections. They have lost four members
of caucus, through switches and resigna-
tions. Right now they are as shaky as the
Grits were 10 months ago.
What happened? Well, for one thing, •
ming Tory leader Joe Clark came on like'
an old rubber boot. It didn't help that the
media, disappointed because no political
blood was being shed, savaged him
ferociously.
Next, Trudcau was tossed a- political
bouquet when the P.O. won the Quebec
election. Suddenly the whole country
began bleating about the destruction of our
sacred union. Overnight, he was trans-
formed from that "arrogant dictator/
socialist (take your pick) in Ottawa" to St.
Pierre, ,the white hope who alone could
turn back the savage hordes from Quebec
and salvage Canada's maidenhead.
At exactly the propitious moment, his
beautiful young wife began rolling and
stoning around and we all sat with baited
breath. The soap opera ended perfectly
with the iflagrant young hussy leaving the
poor, dear man alone with all those boys to
raise.
Finally, add the sheer perversity of the
Canadian voter, and you "have all 'the
reasons for the Liberals once more flying
high, ready for an election any time, and
the poor old Tories wondering why the roof
fell in.
Don't for one moment think that the
reversal in fortunes, in less than a year, is
due to any perspicacity or boldness on the
part of the Liberal government. Far from it.
Let me refresh your mind.
This is the government that rejected-
wage and price controls when the Tories
(Robert Stanfield) wanted them; then
turned around with bare-faced hypocrisy
and applied them.
This is the government that was going' o
"wrestle inflation to the ground." Guess
who's won two out of the'first three falls.
This is the government that allowed the
postal workers t6 tie up the country for five
weeks, then slammed the door on the
fingers of the air traffic controllers when
they called a perfectly legal strike.
This is the government that has sat by
bemusedly and watched unemployment
climb to frightening levels, without stirring
a finger.
This is the government that dithered
over capital punishment and waffled on
gun controls.
This is the government. that threw
millions of dollars off the dock by trying to
make middle-aged civil servants learn
French, instead of spending those dollars
on teaching it to children.
This is the government that has set up a
propaganda service and has acknowledge
black-lists of Canadian citizens.
This is the government that sold you a
$100 Canada Savings Bond which is now
worth 93 cents, on a good day.
This is the government that preaches
control and constraint and practises neither
in its own spending. -
Now. Let he who dares call me a
dyed-in-the-wool Liberal.
by Bill Smiley
When you want to rub somebody's nose
in something, it's customary to say, rather
smugly, “I,hate to say I told you so, but....
6—THE BRUSSELS POST, SEPTEMBER 14, 1977 Bluevale services
changed this week
Mrs. Joe, Walker
Correspondent.
357-3558
Services at the Presbyterian
Church will be withdrawn in
favor of the United • Church
Anniversary service at 11:00 a.m.
Sunday Sept, 18.
Congratulations to Mr. and
Mrs., Keith Humphries on the
birth of a son in Montreal,
Sunday visitors with Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Walker and family
were Dayle Fischer, Linda
Harkness, Ken Skinn, Mr, and
Mrs. Kalvin Fischer, Mr, and
Mrs. Larry Elliott and Mn, and
Mrs. George Fischer,
Mrs Mann in hospital
,Listowel Memorial Hospital
where she was attended by Dr,
Paul Rutherford. On Sunday sh e
was transferred to Stratford, It
was just one year ago that Mrs,
Mann fractured her left leg and
was hospitalized for some weeks,
Peter Huxtable
one of our representatives
will be at
Wingham Motel, WINGHAM
on the 3rd Tuesday of each month
September 20
For prior information call 271-5650 or write
1036 Ontario Street, StratfOrd.
•=1/11.0k
Mrs. Archie Mann, RR 1,
Monkton, is a patient in Stratford
General Hospital with a fractured
right leg received in a fall at her
home on Saturday, Sept. 10. She
was taken by ambulance to
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Connie Ellta Kuc, daughter. of
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kuc, Rose
Valley, Saskatchewan and
Thomas William Black, R.R. 1,
Belgrave, son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Black were married in
Rose Valley United Church on
June 25 by Rev. R. Gibson.
The bride's attendants were
Joanne Riley, sister of the groom,
Dungannon, Villetta Swann,
niece of the bride, Joda Riley,
niece of the groom, Phyllis Ralph,
Dartmouth, N.S., and Kathy Kuc,
sister of the bride. Attending the
groom were his brothers, Keith
and Murray of Belgrave, a friend,
Ron Cook and Nichael Bjerland
and Richard Ralph, nephews of
the bride.
Following the ceremony, a
traditional Austrian-Ukranian
dinner was served by the Rose
Valley Ukranian Catholic Church
ladies, After the reception and
daiice the bride and groom left on
a honeymoon to Alberta to visit
friends and relatives, The ecinple
are residing at R.R. 1, Belgrave.
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