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t---tt is written In a messy divorce action that began long before the calling of Campaign '84, the people of this country began proceedings against the Liberals. And it became all top clear in the final weeks of the battle that there was to be no chance for reconciliation, that there would definitely be a parting of the ways. Over in the winners' dressing room, meanwhile, and midst their euphoria, the Tories must keep in mind what their 211 seats effectively translate to. A country, on its knees from 16 years of relatively unresponsive Liberal rule, is asking for help to get back on its feet again. Time and again, it placed its faith in the Grits, and time and again got it returned smack in the jowls. Their's was not a government of the people, by the people, for the people, it was a government of the few and for the few. Finally, Tuesday night, Canadians rose in unison and said enough is enough. But what a parting! Even the most optimistic; Tory pundits couldn't have hoped for such a resounding statement from the electorate. That they received a monumental mandate is a sign of several things: . o the NDP made startling progress given their profile at the outset, and did so with constructive, clear-thinking elec- tioneering, . _ , Whew! There certainly weren't any sacred cows, were there? Campagnolo, Roberts, Coutts, Regan, Bussieres, Erola and so on, all unceremoniously dumped on the discard heap. Bye, bye. Termination time. Walking papers city. It is now the duty of the Tories to make sure the faith bestowed in them is reciprocated. In the form of the carrying out of election promises (we will be watching, Mr. Mulroney). In the form of sound, effective measures to boost our economic, social and yes, political woes. And in the form of a re-installation of national pride, one of Mulroney’s major platforms, and currently, one of Canada's greatest deficien- cues. o to their credit, thiire were few chinks in the overall PC election armor - they made sure of that with a safe, if antiseptic, strategy. q Liberals were'the target of the desire-for-change attitude that swept the nation, and didn't help themselves at all with a sloppy, ineffective early strategy accentuated by in-house turmoil. o the undecided vote, which all parties viewed as key to their level of success, was not undecided at all, merely un- committed. PAGE 6 - WATERCOO C21R99ttXE. mmv. SEPTEMBER s, 19.4 Canadians did more Tuesday than express a desire for change. They cried out for help. Looking at the federal eleciion scorecard, they'd better pray the Progressive Conservative party has the answers they are looking for. _ As of Tuesday night, the PC stage is set. It is now their turn to prove that the play's the thing. Second Claus Mali Registration Number 5540 '. ... Unless I die. I don't see why not". Libertarian candidate Layne Kllcbenki on running in the next election. Future is now published every Wednesday by Fairway Press. a division of Kitctterter-Watertoo Record Ltd., owner 225 Fairway Rd. S., Kitchener. Ont. . ' address correspondence to Waterloo onloe: is Erb St F., Waterloo. Ont, NZJ ILT, telephone mam , Waterloo Onion-cl. tttttmt is located in In. My. White Law Ollie. r Building (rear entrance. upper t5oor) Porting at the real ot the caloric Open Monday to Friday 900 a m to soo c m Publisher: Paul Winkler Manager: Bill Karges Editor: Rick Campbell - SEE PAGE 3 established 1864 For example, a butcher wants to be a surgeon because he believes he was cut out to cut up, there's more money in it. and anyhow, it's easier. A dentist thinks he'd make a dandy politician. but he hasn't got the pull. A street cleaner wants to join the air force. because he knows how to pilot. If you are now whimpering for mercy. I'll tell you about National Switch Jobs Week. And there'll be no shortage of truck driving jobs. because all the truck drivers will be working in factories, as they're sick of being away from home so much. And there'li be no iack of laciory join. as all the ordinary hands I'm not much of a one for special weeks. It's not that I don't approve wholeheartedly of National Cat Week .or National Sauerkraut Week. Though I'd just as soon tickle a snake's belly, I‘ll scratch a cat's ear if I have to, and I'll choke down a forkful of sauerkraut, though I'd enjoy a mouthful of mouldy moss equally well. It's Just that I don't become aware of them until they're all over. By the time I realize it's National Fireworks Week, and have written a hot editorial about it, we're right into National Fire Prevention Week, and there I am, telling everybody to run around with a match in his hand, sending off rockets. All this preamble, as any idiot child could guess with one head tied behind his back. is merely a crafty way of leading up to my nomination for a special week. I'm fed up with everybody being fed up with his job, and wishing he, or she, could do something else, that looks twice as rosy. Here's how it works. Once a year, for a full week, each of us has a chance to tackle that job we know we should be doing if an evil fate hadn't tossed us into our present rut. it might be a mite confusing. but look at the fun we'll have. Best time to have this special week would be right about now, when everybody is completely browned off with winter. Say you‘re a hydro linesman. and you think teachers have it so much better. Nice warm classroom, when you‘re out in a piercing wind. Snug in bed at night, when you‘re called out to fumble with a broken line after the sleet storm. Hours nine to four, and two months' holidays. Well. all you do is take over a classroom during National Switch Jobs Week. There’ll be no trouble getting a classroom. because all the teachers will have switched jobs with truck drivers, because the latter make more money. according to the teachers. (The following is a repeat of a Bill Smiley col- umn) C What week? Bill Smiley Syndicated columnist Friend housewife would be so glad to get out of that girdle the had to don as a model. she'd sail in and redecorate the whole house. And yours truly would blatant as overjoyed to get out of that dog-collar. a be able to swear. look over the dunes. and have a beer again. I can just see them at the end.of their week. The hydro Iinesman would be scrambling frantically up the highest pole he could find. The teacher would be ready to adopt that lippy teenager he couldn't abide. The truck driver would be hurtling down the highway with a song mi? heart and his foot hard down on the gas a . The factory hand would be crooning over his lathe. The executive would be tossing down his tranquillzer pills hilariously. The farmer would kiss the first cow he saw when he got home. The merchant would hum a merry tune as he gully punched out the accompaniment on the cash register, Well, how does it strike you? Myself. I think it's the greatest idea since psychiatry was invented. One week's dose of the other fellow‘s job, once a year, would sweep away all the envy, malice and boredom that amicts the human race. Personally. I'm going to put in for a preacher's job during the grand switch. Work one diy and spend the rest of the week drinking tea and shooting the breeze with jolly old ladies who are only too glad to help you run the church. You Can't beat that for an easy living. Farms? There'll be lots of them. The farmers will all be taking over stores. so they can sit around on their fat butts all day like the merchants. and watch the bank balance grow. The stores will all be available, of course. because all the merchants will be, away sailing on the Great Lakes where the REAL easy money IS. See how simple it is? It works for women, too. All the housewives would become models, all the models actresses. and all the actresses would be able to revert to being the simple little housewives they are at heart, with eighty-dollar aprons tied becomingly over their bullfighter's pants. will be moving up into the executive offices, where the work is so much easier and the money so much better. Naturally, there'll be a lot of executive vacancies, because all the bosses are sick of the tension and responsibility and all they want to do is have a little farm of their own, where they can get back to the simple life, sleep nights without sedatives, and conquer their ulcers. MIN/“6'