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THE HERALD Wednesday June 1990 Page The weekend was packed full of history MP Turner says Garth Turner MP HaltonPeu PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE Where do I start And what can I There was more history packed last weekend than anyone wild have imagined Our country hanged Our future is unclear Ottawa the prime minister addressed the nation and Tor time to heal after our constitu crisis finally arrived In Calgary 5 Liberals elected Jean Chretien as leader a who believes every university graduate in Canada should be bilingual In Quebec City that night on the Plains of Abraham people came together to celebrate a new future for Quebec I am writing this on Jean Baptist day considered to be a national holiday in Quebec 1 am writing this in Ottawa and in a few hours across the river there will be thousands of people holding high the fleur delis Next Sunday will be in Glen Williams and and elsewhere in our riding helping to raise Canadian flags and to celebrate Canada Day As a federal Member of Parlia ment I have been consumed by these events Trying to understand what it means why they have hap pened what comes next and what it will come to mean in our own communities and our own lives Right now I confused The emotional low spot came for me last Friday when I flew back from giving a speech to a group of Toronto to watch Meech Lake die before me on the TV set It was not easy to sit and watch provinces fight each other and the feds and the French But it happened Now I sad for Canada but somehow I feel we may be on the verge of something better something which makes more sense Canada as we knew it may be gone This will be hard to swallow for those who wanted to hang onto the Canada they were familiar with But the old Canada died on June The new one was born in the streets of Montreal the next day It will be born in Williams Bolton and Georgetown this coming Sunday The old Canada was crippled with endless constitutional ing It was hung up on the 30year old concept of It was a Canada of provinces with tiny Prince Edward Island holding the power to veto something huge On or Quebec wanted Maybe in the new Canada it will be okay for Quebecers to be French and for us to be English partners instead of shoving each other a language down each other s throats Maybe in the new Canada we will find the freedom to be ourselves maybe even relish a little some of English Canada proud tradi Maybe the new Canada will not be 10 provinces of wildly differ ing sizes Perhaps the new Canada could be redrawn along the regional lines that we as Cana dians tend to use to describe ourselves The Quebec Ontario The Prairies and C The new Canada may also ad dress the problem of our aboriginal people The Lake episode after all brought that reality crashing into our neat white anglosaxon lives There on national television was Manitoba Elijah Harper one man holding one eagle feather and blocked and entire nation ton Maybe Harper was a symbol of why the old Canada has to be rethought Maybe the feather he held for spiritual strength brushed away some dust from our national soul Meech Lake may have been a spat in our house an argument so entrenched that the only solution was to set up separate bedrooms Maybe as Canada Day is celebrated in Quebec Saint Jean Baptist Day should be celebrated in English Canada Perhaps the new nationalism will be simple realism recognizing and celebrating the fact that we are dif ferent and equal and still proud of the same country Meech Lake was tough Maybe it was a mistake And maybe the best thing that can happen to us is to have the politicians go away this summer and let the people think about the kind of Canada they want OFFICE MAGIC COMPUTE SALES SERVICE INTUITQUICKEN eg 79 NOW OS SPINNAKER Better Working EtghMnoiw 69 NOW 343 Gmlpti a tomtom DENTURE THERAPY CLINIC TRENTON 18 CHURCH STREET GEORGETOWN ACROSS FROM LIBRARY ffifl AND CULTURAL CENTRE 8772359 SPECIAL EVERY FRIDAY RIBSTEAK DINNER INCLUDES SOUP OR SALAD ROAST POTATOES ROLL 6 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