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a "a ee Ta "ne re = LB Bid oF - INT) I oe SRN, . nations. by Dean J. Kelly With 80 percent of the Canadian public polled as being in favor of retaining capital punishment under certain conditions, the following press item dated July 14, should be read by every Canadian. I was always under the impression that a FREE VOTE was free of party lines and that M.P.'s we send to Ottawa are sent there to represent us...the taxpayers. The following tells a different story. How many times does the same type of thing happen that we never find out about. Caucus Cocktail Party Influenced Vote - WAGNER A cocktail party held for members of the Liberal Government's caucus shortly before the vote on the abolition or retention of capital punishment was a factor in its outcome, defeated PC leadership candi-. date Claude Wagner has alleged. Mr. Wagner has charged that there was undue pressure put on several Liberal backbenchers to force them to change their minds and vote in favor of the bill for abolition of the death penalty. In an interview, Mr. Wagner said eight M.P.s had changed their mind within an hour and a half of the reading of the bill in the House of Commons. Commenting on the final outcome, he said "it wasn't. really a free vote as the government had promised." He said Liberal Quebec leader Marc Lalonde held a: cocktail party for caucus members shortly before the vote. 'He made them believe the Government could fail iff the bill was defeated. Théy were also told if they voted! for abolition they would have more chance of advancement, possibly being appointed parliamentary assistants and get government trips. It's silly, but it impressed some." PLAYING POLITICS--NOT THE GAME The Olympics have finally opened and many African nations walked out in protest over the fact New Zealand team played a South African team long before the Olympics ever opened. The play by these African nations is for POWER! Now know by many is the fact that some of these same 3rd world nations actually SELL THEIR VOTES for money or favor at the United Nations, on vital world issues. Canadians gave $903 million in foreign aid last year, much to African was given by the passing athletes from many countries, including the removal of hats and headgear. We are fortunate to have a head of state that commands such respect from people the world over. Her U.S. visit was the greatest for any person ever given by the American people. repeatedly speak about getting rid of the Queen for some "banana republic" dictator-type of government I am sure that thinking people of Canada realize how important -- if only a symbol -- the respect for the Royal family. The cost has often been a topic of getting rid of the Queen and has been so distorted that many people, including many new immigrants believe their taxes are quote "Paying for the Queen and her jewels". The fact is that our Head of State only costs us about one cent per person total..mostly for the Govenor General.. not the Queen herself. 1 have said many times until someone can prove to me a better alternative to our parliamentary system we must retain it. It is not the power that the Queen holds--and seldom exercises--but that which is denied to someone else who would abuse that power. Just take a good look around the world at the new-found republics frought with war © and strife. A small price we pay for stable democracy. I'say loud and clear "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN". (We already have a Pierre that thinks he is a "king", holding divine power.) The mighty Toronto Star has finally come out with an editorial titled "SCHOOL'S NO PLACE FOR JUNK FOODS" ...Where have they been for all these years? . Are they like too many papers that play politics and put the advertisers dollars first before the health of the nation. With a $3 BILLION tab for poor health here in Ontario alone, is it not time we got the children off the junk foods? More than 100,000 Canadians a year end up in hospital because the food they are eating makes thém sick. Nutrition is so important it should be taught in every school. We can waste $500 MILLION on teaching French surely we can spend a little more on our fiealth care? Preventive medicine and a new breed of doctors are no their way. The Chinese pay their doctors to keep them well. NO PAY if they get sick. Very smart those Orientals, We are a nation OVERFED and UNDERNOURISHED. We spend over $25 MILLION a year in reducing salons alone. In 1973 ads told us to the tune of $675 million what are tastes should be in food etc. Note that sugar-filled convenience foods are the most highly touted ones. As they say 'Give yourself a break to-day'. Eat a good, well balanced home cooked meal surrounded by your family and kids...free of hot dogs, doughnuts and cokes etc. You'll feel a lot better tomorrow. Remember tomorrow is the FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. Make it a healthy and happy one. {i Late Report: Dr. Jacqueline Verrett of the U.S. Food and Drug Adm. just said that we are 'human guinea pigs" eating 6 pounds of potentially dangerous food additives a year. : To those who. :: CS Rhetoricly speaking We live in a world of compromise, adaptation and adjustment to new ideas, new philosophies, and new attitudes, so it is perhaps understandable how today's concerns, can become tomorrow's trivialities. And so we must be, if the human race can ever hope to live in harmony. Alarming, however, is the Jeckle-and-Hyde, black- to-white adjustments that are made possible by the flighty, fickle thermometer of our free society--public opinion. A good example, perhaps, is the growing battle over a section of marsh lands in the Oshawa Harbour area between conservationists and their ancient enemies, The Great Dollar Bill. Just a couple of years ago, with a public fired up about pollution under the ice caps, vanishing wildlife and stinking lakes and rivers, speaking against conservation was akin to anti-motherhood. Chances are that even then, industrialist and the vast majority of the rhetoric belched forth by our ""concerned" politician was just that--rhetoric. Politicians who just a few years ago spread thick their lamentations about ecology and the protection of tomorrow's children etc. etc. today show their true inclinations. J And they're getting away with it. Some politicians, with a crafty ability to guage the public mood, can virtually change their positions overnight. And why not? The public does. We can only assume that Oshawa's Potticary knows that today it is safe to come out with statements calling these people "duck lovers," with the same connotation as "bleeding hearts' and "do-gooders." Potticary must have realized the change in public attitude when he called the swamp 'a logical place for industry." Just a few years ago industry was the "'heavy". The plundering, polluting evil. Back then, a 'Logical place for industry' was out of sight, chained to strict regulations, with no opportunity to do harm to the ecology. Perhaps it was 'due to the extréemety that we, the public, carried the conservationist message, that resulted in the sudden decrease in concern. Perhaps, but we don't think so. More likely, it was the $$$$$$s. Legislating greed As Ottawa unveiled the details of its anit-inflation program just before Christmas -- a program designed to regulate the earnings and spendings of most Canadians -- consumers continued to push their way through the turnstyles and crowd the escalators of the nation's stores, buying as if there were no tomorrow. In our greed we have demanded more from the system we live under than it is capable of producing -- high wages, high profits, more goods and services and, above all, more gadgets and comforts than we can possibly use. The work ethic has become an object of ridicule. The family is under constant assault. Morality is antiquated, if not obsolete and evidence of a lack of self-discipline is everywhere. ~ In its belated attempts to restrain rampant con- sumerism, the federal government has attempted to legislate inflation and greed out of existence. But government controls at every level of our existence only serve, too often, to divert us away from attacking the social sins that are manifested by greed and waste. Restore some sense of discipline in all areas of our lives, a discipline motivated by a sense of co. operation and responsibility and we would be in a better position to attack the awesome problems that are facing us in the last half of the 1970's. To continue to have all restraints on our lifestyles legislated from above gives us no motivation to do some honest soul-searching and to reaffirm man's essential need to practice his own self-discipline and constraint. ? "She's in here for observation."