Whitby Free Pmss, Wednosday, November 18,1992, Page 7 1.PAGE SEVEN We deserved more than -a buli1roar rve been had. '~7 Here I arn, six weeks older than the Prime Minister 9 > -neither of us a spring chicken - and I feel I have been bilked. In the oldest game ini town. Over the Referendum. I spent most of the Urne before the vote gathering information.ý Not until the day before did 1 decide I now hang my head in shame ..te, vote 'Yes.' My reasons: that any Constitution-is a compromise, 9 and this was as good as we're going te get. And it may be a while before we get another chance. ______________________________________ But that's not why I feel had. According te the Canadian Press (i a story or_________ ______________________ originating from the Ottawa Citizen), the goverrent wanted te stampede Canadians into voting Yes.' The plans: scare Canadians into voting «'Yes. Teil them the economy will fail apart. Investrnent dollars will dry up, the Canadian dollar will fal i value, interest rates will soar. Tell them Québec will separate for sure if rejected again. Tell them their children and grandchildren will be saddled with this continuing saga. Ini other words, bluster and blunder.- Market the whole package as though it were a new brand of soda cracker. Here, eat it, it's good for you. And if you don't eat it, the cracker company will close do"n, the biscuits will g et soggy, the bakers will lose their jobs, the sky will fall and te world will end. Ail bunkum. The sky didn't falI. The dollar didn't plunge. Interest rates did not soar. Quebec didn't declare war. In fact, interest rates stabilized; the dollar wavered only a little; and, ini Québec, federalist support strengthened. Oh, some of the known world subsequently died. The Republican P in the United States, under President Georg Bus, was kicked out. The Canadian federal deficitiumped by $3 billion. From Queen's Park, we hear rurnours that the Ontario deficit wiil grow by another billion or so AERL4L VIEW 0F WIIITY HARBOUR LOOKING NOMRHWEST., 1959 dollars. Wihitby Harbour was quiet and largel undeveloped 33 years ago. The barges and drydock of (Thats riht. row. y a illin. Ortwo.lu aMcNaxnara Marine can be seon at centre andt he right of th eer the Texaco cil tanks,, province of six million. Or so.) now demoblished. The. new water pump hoseuder c onstruction is tloer right. The growt o deficits has nothing to do with the WhItlw Arhiven phco Refl.erendu. That has a lot to do with h csin Remember how long it took then-Finance Minister Michael Wilson si couple of years ago te say the 'RW word? 10YBARSAGO Now he's juat as reluctant te say the DY word. from the Wedlnoeday, November i17, 1O92 efdition oth approveit I voted 'Yées because I thought 1 had the best interests of the country in mimd. Mamy politicians had 110 YEARS AGO their re-election in mimd. from the Thursday, November 16, 1882 edition of the There is a world of difference, particularly when WHITBY CHRONICLE we're talking about the country's Constitution. 1* Burglars broke inte the safe at George Cormnacks luznber yard and took $147. A Constitution is more than another law. It!s what* Twelve Toronteon1én bicycled te Whitby and had lunch at the Royal- Hotel before returning defines what other laws, and the country itself, are ailu home. There was a die for the Langevint Cup at the Wihitby Colegiate Institute field day. about. Alexander Pirie is te take Whitby's school censu s at a salary of $20. We deserved better than the bulroar we got.____________ _____________________ M Id