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I K i~I iij get, hock we could raise fi fty million that way. 125 YEARS AGO BOB.Youe no litenng, loy. I aid...from the Thursday October 7 1869 edition of the WHITÜÈCHROK!ICLE FLOY: I eardyou.But f yu scre tem of voiîig. *Prince Arthu r, third son of Queen Victoria, turned the sod for the Whîtby adPr Liberal they might vote' for Michael The Reformer Harris. Perry Railway in front of Trafalgar Castie yesterday. There's no chance he'd bring in NDP Policies. Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, Governor-General Baron Lisgar, Ontario Lieutenant-Governor Sir Williamf Howland and Prince Arthur were .Sheriff Nelson G. Reynolds' luncheon guests at Trafal gar Castie yesterday. BOB: Hock, if they're gonna vote for him thon they* There were more than 2,000 entries for prizes at the Ontario County Agricultural might as weli vote for me. Be a lot more fun. You neyer Exhibition in Whitby iast week. know what policy I'm gonna reverse next. Could we make* Henry Hannam was appointed tax collector by the Town Council. book on that? Whidby Free PresaWednesday, October 12,1994 , Page 7 t p .' v. by BillaSwn Furore ,bunker We take you now directly, by underground satellite, .to a room seven floors below street level at Queensà Park. This. is the place to which Premier Bob Rae and selected personal, friends in cabinet repair wheni in the. Middle of a political storm. Welcomne, ladies and gentlemen, te the Furore Bunker: BOB RAE: That's it for now. We can fil in the details later. FLOYD LAUGH-REN: Bob, this 18 our election strategy were talking about. Why heck, you mnight wake up one morning and caîl the election. Then where would we be? v BOB: If we're smart, ahl through that election we'd stay right where we are now. FLOYD: You mean.. . BOB: Right here in the F'urore Bunker, that's right. But __________________________________________ not te worry, we're not smart. FLOYD: Whew! You had me worried there for a bit. But gettingback, te this issue, we must define policies bëfore What's-His-Namecalls the electio n. BOB: You've spent too long in opposition, Floyd. I arn What's-His-N~ame. Honestly, sometimes I think ... FLOYD: That'a-a good part of aur problem. The truth is, we can t just stumble through the elecÏtion,-naking things up as we go. BOB: It worked in government. That's How we thought I up the Social Contract. You just don't see things like that in government very often. FLOYD: Fùunny, 1 think Thomas Walkom -said something very much like that in his latest book. What's it called now? RAE: That Social Contractjust put me in a daze, cail it a Rae Daze, when-I first thought of it. You see, Floyd, a lot of people were frightened and confused at flrst when we of the NDP were first elected the government in' Ontario. FLOYD: Such insights you have from time te time. < RAE: Yes, they didn't know exactly what te expect. Many had heard of many. of our.-policies, though, and quite frankly were frightened of what we might do. FLOYD: Hard te fathom, that. RAE: And that's the one thing that Fm really quite ~r oCUT AL COE,15 proudofer the past fou riny nars ht al those pePole This view at the corner of King-and Gilbert Streets shows the Jail , surrounded by a whowee arad w wul brngin ilthse DPPolcishigh brick wall.- The jail was built in 1853, closed in 19 *58 and demolished in February, why I worked very hard at calming their fears. That is why, 1960. The site is now a parking lot behind the Centennial Building. 'Although a ovralI that time, we brous;ht in not even one NDP Policy. formidable building, several escapes were made from it over its 107 years. over Whitby Archives photo