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It Hi Page THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday December 1990 Say goodnight Brian The most recent Gallup poll suggests that our esteemed Prime Minister Brian Mulroney referred to lovingly in some sec tors of the nursing industry as good old BM should pull a Mag Thatcher and drop out of politics altogether Fully 58 per cent of those Cana polled felt Mr Mulroney should resign as leader of the federal Progressive Conser vative party thereby also stepp ing down as our Prime Minister While I view opinion polls with a somewhat jaundiced eye I feel this one is bang or as more and more Mr appears to be out of step with Canadian realities and is viewed even within the rank and file of his own party as a lame duck Prime Minister Another recent poll earned out by Environics Research Group of Toronto for the Toronto Star and TV cited concerns about the economy as the biggest problem facing Canada today This was self evident some time ago so what does our do He commissions a forum on national unity Good choice Brian Canada is a net importer of oil meaning we export more oil than we import yet we could become embroiled thanks to federal leadership in a war in the Middle East simply because Mr Mulroney w ants to placate and play up to our neighbours to the south the United of America Don t be fooled he sn cophantic rhetoric being tossed about in at to justif military action which would in elude Canadian military person net against Iraq Plain and simple it is an at tempt to protect S big oil in in the Middle East Comparisons to events leading up to the Second World War and the threat of another Hitler on the are nauseating at best and at worst examples of the United States propaganda machine working overtime Don t kid yourself If Saddam Hussam had moved on Saudi Arabia the whole Arab world would have turned against him and his regime not to mention his country would have been wiped out Historically speaking Iraq did have a legitimate claim on Kuwait The country was once a province of Iraq however the claim should have been settled by diplomatic means rather than by force Regardless like a lap dog Canada followed the U S lead thanks to our Prime Minister ably seconded by Joe Clark That s real leadership boys Remember when Joe Clark was Minister He almost impaled himself on a bayonet while inspecting troops He tainly has militarj experience Mr Mulroney proudly an the Hibernian oil field off Newfoundland would be developed At a staggering cost to the Canadian taxpayer it should be added Well done Bnan The only pro blem is we don t have a tanker fleet which could safely transport the oil A scathing report on Canada s tanker fleet was released recent questioning the of our transport fleet to transport oil safely It was similarly reported that with the present state of upreparedness Canada would have a hard time containing a minor oil spill let alone a major one happens if there is a disaster in the Hibernta oil fields Bnan Still with the environment and getting back to the Middle East Crisis does it make sense that Canadian military personnel should die to protect US in in oil which has been identified as the main polluter of the environment I think not It is ironic that members of the United Nations are facing off against Iraq when in fact the S has taken a firm position against continued use of fossil fuels Somebody should make up their mind somewhere along the line Yet our Prime Minister goes blithely along his merry way more concerned with partisan politics the GST and Senate debacle than real issies which concern Canadians Get real Brian Better yet follow the lead of Margaret That cher and get out Editorial- The Hills HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established A Division of Canadian Newspaper Company Limited 45 Street Georgetown Ontario L7G K ROBERT Publisher and General Manager 8772201 COLIN ROB RISK Managing Editor Sport Editor IW la on lion CLASSIFIED Joan Minns I CIRCULATION Ma is ACCOUNT NO Jennie Hap Accountant and a RATES illon 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volunteer for the talents their share What if What if The tax system was changed We could free the Since it is in net not whatever it is wish ranged to he What if What if We approach taxes in a new The Feds were inoived with proportion control of wattle When we see them now as pure Would they handle it with much extortion better taste What if What if We all hear what It is YOU Housing policy was integrated think What if To get out of the red Federal politicians were more And into the pink accountable Lois A Richardson So problems won become so Georgetown Since I a man or near enough that it makes little ference you can imagine my reaction to the charge that has been levied by the host of the CBC program Doctor Doctor Men claims Art are much bigger hypochondriacs than women Well There is of course just one suitable response to this sort of allegation A man should cry out in righteous indignation summon up his mightiest wrath and fire off an absolutely furious letter of protest And I would have done exactly this if it weren t the sort of behaviour that is likely to cause fatal strokes and aneurisms It s a curse having to be so mindful of your fragile health There are two reasons why should be heartily asham of making this allegation The first is that he slandering each and every male among us The second is that he right Let me hasten to say that I not necessarily speaking per here As pathetic hypochondriacs I in not an overwhelming 1 hypochondriac I used to be a it worse before I nude a major lifestyle I gave up reading news items which begin Medical have discovered As we both know no good ever comes of reading such items They invariably reveal that doc tors have proven yet another of your favorite foods beverages or activities can kill you A benchmark of sorts was established a few years back when medical researchers iden tified a link between stress and cancer Here we had proof positive worrying about cancer can cause cancer It s undeniable however that men toward hypochondria Most of us have over the years suffered from such a rich variety of fatal ailments that it a miracle we re still alive I tend to think this can only be explained by our inner virtue It also undeniable that women nearly so bad he Love of My I ife and I for in stance have subtly but distinct ly different response to illness She wails until she is sick as a dog ind then proclaims ly point in the doctor I mn 1 HAT sick 1 until I moderately corn for table ind then whisper sepulchur illy There no point in calling the its too lite he question of course is WHY men arc more hy portion dnacal than women One could argue I suppose that there a simple reason why men whine so much more it simply that we re so good at it But it wouldn t make sense to claim that men ire bigger hypochondriacs than women because theyre much bigger sissies Heavens no This would be silly Ha Ha No there has to be a scientific explanation Just for starters its clear that women dont need to worry about their health as much since they live on average more than eight years longer than men There are two schools of thought on this One holds that women live longer because they are genetically healthier The other holds that they do it out of sheer spite But my own theory is that male hypochondria dates back to our earliest history when the of hunting put male health in con stant peril It easy to imagine a group of Neanderthals reminiscing sadly round the campfire And look what happened to Og He ate pro perly exercised regularly and never touched a drop Then one morning he woke up with the fles jnd wo days later he was rumpled on by a wooly mam ninth Throughout human history men faced health hazards much more frequently than women While the Hun was out trying to conquer Mrs Hun is it I bridge muttering th it sin should li married Al the Visigoth instead Yes been tragic illy difficult dt And now to lop it off we re accused of wimps and snivellers It enough to make a guy fool tlreadydoes