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WH1lTBY FREýPfESS,WVEDNESD AY, ANUR10, 1990, PAGE 7 PAGÉ SEVEN quý"UÀRL "VWI-i SOME PREDICTIONS FOR THE NINETIES Judging from the iast decade, nothing is impossible - so here is my wild and fanciful crystal gazing for the nineties. The Mulroney govemnment is in deep trouble. Meech Lake will die in June and with it wiIl go a couple of key Quebec ministers. The government's popuiarity wili plummet stili further as the opposition to the GST continues to grow. Mike Wilson wiii resign ... or was be pushed. A new ininister wiii bring in the GST under a new name, with minor changes, and oniy six months behind schedule. It will be met by a weil-organized tax revoIt. A number of Tory backbenchers will jump ship and in late 1991, the Conservatives will lose a vote of confidence in the House of Commons. The election which foilows wiii be the end of traditional political power bases. The election wiil be fought on issues - leaders wiil be secondary. People will demand straight answers to straight questions. The issues will be taxes, interest rates, the environmient (I predict that the Whitevale land fill site will neyer open), bureaucracy, and free trade. A new nationalist party will take a majority of the seats in Quebec and the West wiil be split between the NDP and the Reform Party. A new party will arise in the maritimes to fili the vacuum left by the Tories. Ontario wili be the only province which wiil stick to its traditional three party split. No party wiil corne anywbere near a majority and a coalition of political greenhorns will form. the government. It wiii be one of the best governments Canada bas ever had. It wiil respect the mandate of the people who, elected it ... at their own peril. The traditional bureaucratic power structures wili be shattered as the new government seeks solutions rather than band-aids. The tax system, the banking system, the educational system, the judiciai system will ahl corne under close scrutiny and will see major changes. The maritime members wili demand an end to foreign flshing off the east coast. The government will extend its territorial limits to 300 miles amidst unprecedented diplomatic fallout. When the Canadian coast guard sinks a French trawler, Canada will be close to war, but we will find surprising support at the United Nations. In the provinces, the NDP will form new governments in Saskatchewan and B.C. Manitoba wiil elect another minority government. Alberta wili not have another election until 1994 and the Conservatives will finish a poor third behind Preston Manning>s Reformn Party and the NDP. The Liberals will squeak out a narrow victory in Ontario over the NDP and Tories but the resultant minority government will last only 6 months and then ???? In Quebec, Bourassa will find himself increasingly iso- lated fromn both bis own province and the rest of Canada. The election in 1993 will be fought between the Parti Quebecois and a new party advocating renewed federalisni. The PQ will win but wili have insufficient support to, separate. The federalists will win in 1997 and a constitutional conference of Canaclians from ahi hevels of government and walks of life will be convened te redefine Canada for the 2lst century. The maritimes wili explode like no other part of Canada. With nothing to, lose, maritimers wiii sweep a new maritime party to power in ail four provinces. The new party will, however, Iargely disintegrate by the end of the decade. Eastern Europe will continue te dominate the news for inost of the decade. Germany wili begin the process of reunification before the end of 1990.,,Russian troops will be out of Europe by the end of 1991.\A couple of eastern European states will be under dictators «p again before the decade is halfover and there wiil be more bloodshed. The planned economic union of Europe wil b otoe indefinitely because of the instability in eastern Europe. Trade barriers will continue to decline but mostly because of bihateral agreements. China wihl flnally get a new government. The initial transition of power will take place peaceflully witbout fanfare before the end of this year, but wili be folhowed by a bloody but unsuccessful miiitary counter coup witbin months. North and South Horea will be reunited. The 1992 Olympics will have another drug scandai. Japan will peak as an economic power. Its dedline wili be, acceierated by a stock trading scandai on the Tokyo Ex- change which wiil send worhd markets on a roiler coaster ride. The Japanese economy will stay in. a sîump until tbe M 0.iE DEMOLITION 0F DR. CHAULES F. McGHILVRAY'S HOME, JANUARY 1960 This fine ohd brick home stood at the corner of Dundas and Green Streets where the Whitby Corporate Centre is now. It was built about 1875 by Thomas Devereil and was tbe home of Dr. Charles McGillivray until ber death in 1944. WhitIby Archive photo 10 YEARS'AGO from the Wedtiesday, January 9, 1980 edition of the WHITBY FREE PRESS *Whitby is ceebrating 125 years of incorporation as a town in 1980. *Meghan Desjardins is Wihitby's erst baby of the decade, born at 4:33 a.m. Jan. lst. " Scott Fenneli is the Progressivý Conservative candidate in the Feb. 18 federai election; Doug Dickerson is the iàberal, (ýeoff Rison, NDP and Ralpb Posma, Libertarian. " The Cbristmnas Seal campaign ià $10,000 short of its objective. 25 YEARS AGO from the Thursday, January 7, 1965 edition of the WJIITBY WEEIKLY NEWS " The Town of Whitby wilh lease, the old Ontario County Court House for 99 years as a Centennial project. " The public school board will allqw groups free use of auditoriums and class rooms in the town's schools. " Building permits amounted te $ý,502,031 in 1964; 58« per cent for residential, 12 per cent for commercial and 30 per cent fôr industrial. " A kindergarten class was added to St. Bernard's Separate Schooi in 1964 at a cost of $7,000. 125 YEARS AGO from the Thup~day, January 5, 1865 edition of the WHITBY CHRONICLE *Nichohas Wood Brown, owner of tihe Brown and Patterson agricultural implement foundry, is Whitby~s nayor for 1865. *The citizens of Whitby gave a ba iquet at Robson's Hotel on Dec. 31 for the members of the volunteer miitia. before their dep arture for the Canada-United States border. *The Ashburn quarterly fair wille hehd on January 18. *Druggist James Byrne is offeringj Canadian Grape Wine at bis store. ini lui ý