WHM~Y FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20,1991, PAGE 7 PAGE SEVEN The yeilow ribbion strategy (The fgollowing le a transcript of documents obtained in violation of National Security. WARNING: Reading this may make you aryto a flony. Conviction may Iead to fines and/or lhf. impraoninnt.) Cabinet notes and records. onQUT , ellow Rbbons. r-/ IRE: Guf Wà r, uébec,, PRIME MINISTER: First item on tii agenda je Free Trade. Any commente? CROSBY: Geez, Brian, I thought we just squeakedout of the VOICES: Hoar, hear. BM the -PM:. Calm down, John. Remember -how ive turned that last election around? What l'm talkin? about here will -do the sarine thin. CROSBY: Brian, Brian. Were at 12 per oent in the polis and ________________________________ headed for a Celsius conversion. I don't think we can play eround'with stufflike that anymore. PM: We're talking about Free Trede with Mexico. Surely a littie fun in the sOn is wbat Canadiens want. WILSON: Before you get carried away there, Brien, Fd 1k. to talk a bit about the GST. .PM: Mr. Finance Minister, the. GST is your baby. Don't try to blerne me. WILSON: What lPm askiing is something te shift some of this crap from my shoulders. I thought up the GSI, I put it in place,i F'il tae the full credit. What I would like is a policy te teke the country's mind off it. JOE CLARK:. You mee'n the way the GST teok everybody's mind off the Free Trade? WILSN:'Yeah. PM:. Okay, everybody. Put your thinking caps on. Lèt's just freewheel it ber. te corne up with. soine ideas te put the GST out of everyboy's iinde. McKNIGHT: I{ow about a war? We a]ready got some troope over there in wherever it is, somne airplenes, some ships. Surely once the shooting starts *CLARIL Tell tint nincompoop that the shooting started a month ago. PM: Corne on, you gays. These negatives henmjer the fiow. BOUCHARD: A war isn3t teo bad an idea. gut su ppose we stir up the. Quebec nationases, get everybody tiiinking th~e C-ountry is ready te break up. Thon they would pay no attention te a little G T. ------... PM: Good, good. More? McKNIGHT:- About thie wer. We get Canadiens in ther. shooting, dying, our popularitys gonna skyrocket like a Scud. UIONWR ALA TTO,14 The higher the casualties, the higher our ratings. Give us ayeer UIO NW1B ALA TTO,14 of heavy losses we could get re-elected. 'This brick station. was buflt in. 1871 where Hickory Street passes the Beaver Lumber PM: I like tuis kid. Tell me more. Compeny, for the Port Whitby and Port Perry Railway. Passenger service ceasod in 1941, McKNIGHT:. Heck, our numbers went up just for talking and the station was an express office until 1963. It wes domolished in Jenuary 1970. about supporting our troops. Chretien and McLaughlin both Whity ArcdvS photo l ook silly. W. get ail the credit. 1 ER G PM: And the re-elected part? 10 ER ~ McKNIGHT: The longer and dirtier tho war, the better for fromn the Wednosday, February 18, 1981 edition of the us. ce se itnow ellw rbbos o aIlthetres, upprtin WHTBYFRE PRSSýfd CLARIL I just thought of something. PM: Okay, Joe, what is it? CLARK-- The guy on tiie bus. The on. weiting for tii. yellow ribbons. Thates an American image. Won't someone question 75 YEARS AGO thnt? from the. Thursday, February 17, 1916 edition of the. PM: We'll just tell them it was part of the. Free Trade doal. WHITY GAZETTE AND) CHRONICLE And that w,'ll give it te, Mexico when that d.al's signed.* Whitby native Sir Heniar Greenwood bas been made deputy assistant Adjutant General CLARK: Oh. I see. at the British War Office. ý BOUCHARD: Besides, with tiie Quebec question te confuse* Members of C Company 0f tii. ll6th Battalion entertained a large--audlienoe at tii. mmc 'em, won't b. herdly enybodyM who rememibers that the. guy who hall te rais. funds for the. Whitby War Relief Society. got the yellow ribbon was in jeil, doin' bard time for eitiior ciild* Most of Whitby's churches are holding -recruiting sermons te, get local boys te enliet in tii. molesting, B & E, or murder, or something. Like, h. didn't want army. his or' lady te b.e saddled with him enymoro.* James Shaw, foreman at Brown and Patterson's foundry, died on February 12,- at the age CLARK.- You're sure ho wasn't a draft dodger? 0f 76 PM: Relax, Ramjoe. This thing~s in the bag. Thanks guys. 0 Z 3 4.> à 4 às *.*J\i:Jt .*- .t. i