The Huron Expositor, 1976-12-02, Page 26,HE tivRoN exPOtToR, DEcEmBE
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by Bill Smiley Who needs -*xebec? We do
Like so many others, 1 was completely
astonished by the sweeping victory of the
Patti Quebecois in La Belle Province.
I was also just dreadfully, dreadfully
upset at the thought of that darn old
separatorateest Rainy Levack taking over
as Prime Minister of Quebec and
exercising his rights to exorcise that fair
province right out of the body politic of this
Great Nation.
In fact, I was so disturbed by the whole
thing that when my assistant department
head, Jeanne Sauve, came up to me in the
hall, grinning fiercely, and said, "Vive De
Gaulle!" I just gave her an icy look and
walked on.
I made myself scarce when my old
shuffleboard partner, Bill Chenier, was
looking for me for our usual noon-hour
game in the staff room. No way am I going
to be buddies with some gu who is
probably an underground agent for Rainy
Levack.
However, I got my own back in a sort of
sneaky, and you might even say sadistic'
way. I asked my four-year Grade Its if,
they'd heard the news that the government '
of Ontario was going to put everyone with a
French-Canadian name in concentration
camps, just as our federal government, in
its infinite stupidity, did with the westcoast
Japanese after Pearl Harbor.
Boy, that shook them. They started •
looking around at ,each other. Half my
classes are made up of Robilailles,
Cadieurs, Cadeaus, Moreaus, Bourgeois
and so on. I said: "It'll certainly be nice to
have mistier classes." Their mouths were
open.
Then one guy in a front seat, with a gOod
Scottish surname, started to grin, and said,
in the impeccable English I instil in my
students, "Ya, sir. I' heard that there
broadcast, But you (WW1 hear it all. They
changed their 'mind, They ain't gowna
putten in camps, They're gowna line email
up and shootem." My cold, stern look
began to crumble, and pretty-soon we were
all laughing as they realized they'd been
"had" once More by. Old Smiley.
Then we talked about what the
separation of Quebec would mean. The
kids, as usual, weren't too perturbed.
Dynasties Can come and go, 'as far as they
are concerned, as long as they don't get a
homework assignment out of it. The only
thing that upsets them is a case of
unrequited love, or the breakdown of the
TV set just as the big sex or violence scene
gets started.
The possibility of Quebec separating
from the rev of Canada upsets e just
about as, much as it does the kids. I love ,
Canada as it is, but 1 . don't i that
Confederation and all that jazz is sacred
thing. It was put together by a bunch of
politicians for reasons that .' were not
entirely altruistic, acid if auother bunch of
politicians wants to disband the club, so be
it.
The original plighting of troths was
basically a marriage of convenience. fter
more than a hundred years of ma ital
disharmony,..if one of the parties feels the
union is incompatible, why not get.•a
divorce?
middle-aged country, beset by inflation,
unemployment and strikes.
We run down our leaders.We seek
security rather than adventure!'We whine'
about American domination and do nothing
abott it. We bitch abiiiirpra-YThlatii
NATO and giving money to poor countries
and letting in „too many immigrants and
anything else that is unselfish,
Despite high unemployment, we have'
one of the most erratic labor forces in the
world. Despite our tremendous natural
resources, we let the Americans and the
Germans and the Japanese do the
investing-in our development, because we
haven't the guts to take the risks ourselves.
Maybe the threat of separation by
Quebec is just the jolt this country needs to
get 'the old adrenalin flowing once again.
This is a great country, but it won't be
great for long if it is inhabited by a nation
of chickens. Or sheep.
Life is change. things that don't change
die. Let's remember that and not panic
when there are indications of change,
however great it may be.
When 1 WAS the age of my students, the
British Empire stretched around the world.
In the cant phrase, the sun never set on it.
Today that mighty Empire has shrunk to a
tiny, beleaguered Britain, financially on
the rocks. Does anybody really care, except
a few elderly pukka sahibs? •
People love frightening themselves and
each other. Political columnists are having
a hey-day, speculating on the "balkaniza-
tion" of Canada. After Quebec drops out,
speculate the, worry warts, B.C. and .the •
Maritimes will probably becoine part of the
U.S., the prairie provinces will secede arfd
form a country called Manalsask or
something, and Ontario will be left sitting
high and dry, the only remaining bastion of
the trueblite WASP Canadian. Nobody
seems to worry much about Newry.
Maybe it's time this country had a jolly
good shaking up. We seemed to have
changed in the last few decades from a
vibrant and vital young nation with lots to
be proud of, and plenty to look forward-fo,
into a sour, crabby and suspicious_.„„
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Presbytery df the United
Church has set its budget figure
at $31.064 for 1977. Rev. Donald
Beck, Hensall, head of the
finance committee, presented the
financial breakdown of the eight
divisions and committees at a
meeting in Ontario St. United
Church, Clinton, last week.
• The 1972 total represents an
increase of approximately $4,000.
The new budget works out to
$1.60 per resident member, an
increase of 35 bents, It was stated
that there were f9.283 names on
the roll, a decrease of some 360
members over last year.
Largest recipients of funds
were Camps Bimini and,
Menesetung of $9,500: The
Division of CommunicatioWs
• budget was the largest at $5,285.
Singtime from CKNX-TV and the
new Resource Centre at Mitchell
come under this arm of
Presbytery.
Under a new format committee
meetings were discontinued
during presbytery to allow for a
more creative and interesting
session. Cemmittees met prior to
presbytery.
Highlight of the all-day session
was a special presentation of the
Division of Mission by Revs.
Barry Robinson, Thames Road,
Bruce Guy. DashWO-Od and Glen
Wright, Eieter. A role-playing
situation portrayed the problems
that arise in the church when
The protection of ideas by
intents, copyrights and
registration will be explained
during an evening seminar Dec. 7
in the' Ramada" Inn, London.
The seminar provides
innovators with information
which has a direct effect on their
ability to realize profits from their.
ideas. Discussions will cover,
patents. copyrights, trademarks
and industrial designs as well as
the role of the patent agent and
an explanation of licenses and
royalties.
Sponsored by the Ontario
Ministry of Industry and Tourism
and the Department of Consumer
and Corporate Affairs, Ottawa.
the feminar is one of a series held
throughout Ontario as part of a,
program to encourage innovation
in industry.
Speakers will be Donald
Campbell of the Bureau of
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people with different approaches
attempt to share their positions.
The presentation depicted a
confrontation between the
traditionalist who was unwilling
to explore and a person who had
had a renewal experience. The
second part of the role-playing
illustrated two people with
different ideas, both o whom
were interested in th other's-.
position.
Rev. Bruce Pierce, Credition
led a vocational presentation in
which several clergymen told of
their experience leading to the
ministry. The purpose was to help
clergy and laity be more
perceptive in their
encouragethent to others to enter
the full time work of the church,
le Mission and Service
co mittee reported 'that 1975
wings to the local fund was
$61.75 per Member in the
presbytery while Mission- and
Service received $15.75. The
committee urged a more equal
committment. .
Presbytery, approved the
following. pastoral changes; Rev.
James Reddoch, Bayfield.
postponment of 'retirement; Rev.
John Stinson transfer from.
Toronto Conference to Listowej;
Rev. Harold Dobson.
Dungannon-Nile, change in
pastoral relations in June 1977
and a call to Rev. Wm. J. Moore
to ,St. Marys from the Manitoba
Conference. as of July 1977.. •
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Bernard Beasley of John Labatt .
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For information concerning
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