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Oakville‘s Janice Kay is hopeful that people see the value in Hurtig‘s ideals and as a coâ€"founder of the party, hopes to have more women involved in the party. Coming as it does in a federal election year, people will be watchâ€" ing the party to see if it will truly reflect the views of Canadians feeling disenfranchised. The National Party of Canada will add just another element in an election that will be like no other in our nation‘s history. In the case of the Bloc Quebecois, the only reason for its existence is to wrest federal seats from the Progressive Conservatives and the Liberals. When the Reform Party was formed by Preston Manning, it garnered an immediate following as an alternative to the main parties but a series of events including internal â€"squabbling and power plays by Christian fundamentalists, particularly in Manitoba, has seen former supporters looking for another party. Hurtig is hoping The National Party is the answer for these Canadians. The emergence of the party should not be surprising in this time of political upheaval in Canada. We‘ve already seen the Bloc Quebecois and Reform Party formed in response to a specific mandate or perceived mandate from specific regions of the country. Tan Oliver Publisher Robert Glasbey Advertising Director Norman Alexander ~Editor Geoff Hill Circulation Director Teri Casas Office Manager Tim Coles Production Manager Hurtig, no stranger to the publishing business, has already written a book on the party‘s views and objectives called A New and Better Canada: Principles and Policies of a New Canadian Party. In it, he outlines what his vision is for Canada, things like full employment and direct conâ€" trol of the Bank of Canada through government. " ellâ€"known Canadian nationalist Mel Hurtig didâ€" Wn’t like what he saw happening with the coun: i try‘s three mainstream political parties, so he decided, like Preston Manning before him, to start his own party and what better name f01 the fled011n party than The National Party of Canada. World‘s major consumers of primary energy, 1990 . United Kingdom K France Brazil 3 Mexico EDITORIAL More options Country 467 Speers Road, Oakville, Ont. 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Back in 1963, I felt priviâ€" leged to have witnessed (if only via my 17â€"inch Admiral TV) one of the great oratorical moments in history. It happened in Berlin. A young, tousleâ€" haired American président by the name of John Fitzgerald Kennedy faced an enthusiastic crowd of West Germans and declared "Ich bin ein Berliner!" So "what Kennedy was declarâ€" ing on that cold grey day in Berlin thirty years ago was: "I am a jelly doughnut." _ Well, Lord knows it‘s not the only international misunderâ€" standing in history â€" even for U.S. Presidents. Back in 1977, Jimmy Carter caused a few red faces during a visit to Poland thanks to a Not Terribly Good translator who announced that the U.S. President had ‘abanâ€" doned‘ the U.S. (He meant that Carter had ‘left‘ the U.S. that day). The hapless translator also had poor Jimmy talking about Polish ‘lusts‘ (Carter had merely been speculating on the people‘s "desiresâ€"for the future"). â€" Well, that wasn‘t too hard to follow. JFK was telling his German allies that as long as the Berlin Wall stood, he would be, in spirit, a citizen of Berlin, richt? Wrong. Turns out that in Germany a ‘Berliner‘ is kind of like a bagel or a turnover, only with jam inside. Of twisted translations and strange quirks of accuracy s it me â€" or is Life really _ full of dirty tricks? Scientific experts can screw up too. As the folks in charge of a museum in northern England did a few years back, when they proudly exhibited a Roman sesâ€" tertius coin, minted, they said, more than 1800 years ago. â€" "Here is a horse who have bad looks. Give me another. I will not that. He not sall know to march, he is pursy, he is foundered. Don‘t you are ashamed to give me a jade as like? He 1s unshoed. He 1s with nails up." "We expect then, who the litâ€" tle book (for the care what we wrote him, and for her typoâ€" graphical correction) that may be worth the acceptation of the studious persons, and especially of the youth, at which we dediâ€" cate him particularly." My favorite section is the one with instructions on how to get your money back for a lousy horse: But translation is a tricky game. I have in my library a classic piece of interâ€"lingual butchery written by one Pedro Carolino back in 1883. It‘s called The New Guide of Conversation in Portuguese. and English. Right from the title you know this is no ordinary foreign phrase book. Consider Senhor Carolino‘s dedication: "Mr. Harris has asked us to point out a number of inaccuraâ€" cies in our story. After returning from India, he served in Ireland for four years and not six months as stated; he never farmed at Heddington, particuâ€" larly not at Coate Road Farm as stated; he has never counted cycling or walking among his hobbies; he is not a member of 54 hunts; and he did not have an eye removed at Chippenham Hospital after an air raid on Calne." Not that newspapers are immune to the disease. First prize for the all time worst newspaper reporting‘ must surely go to the Wiltshire Times and Chippenham News for a feature article it ran about a local man named Harris. The following week, the paper carried this apology. : Oh well. At least they spelled his name.right., se Quite popular it was too, until a little nineâ€"year old girl came along and piped: "That‘s not a Roman coin. It‘s a plastic thing you get from Robinson‘s Soft Drinks." A redâ€"faced museum curator explained that the museum experts had been taken in by the big letter "R" on the coin. "The trouble was that we construed the letter to stand for ‘Roma‘. In fact it stood for ‘Robinsons‘, the soft drink manufacturers." The little girl was absolutely right. As a public relations camâ€" paign, a local soft drinks firm had been handing out plastic tokens in exchange for bottle labels. _ en n oi oi tm nb c