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PAGE 16 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY,. JUNE 16, 1993 In a recent debate, I noted general agreement with one of the parâ€" mpantswhonid.'...'n'-fi:mpo&'finww&mm and sat down together to work out what is best for Canada." The degree of agreement with that statement shocked me for it is just that kind of sentiment which can lead to dictatorship, not that I think Canada will ever be governed by a dictator. The sentiment has also been expressed in the U.S., more so since Bush was pushed out of office for Slick Willie, who is now seen by many as not living up to their hopes. As a student of politics, right up to the Ph.D. level, I have observed politicians of all stripes. I did a column for another paper when Paul Martin died and received several comments on it for its positive review of Paul Martin‘s accomplishments but even more for my insight into his personal caring. There are other politicians about whom I could write. The first politician I remember seeing in the flesh was Louis St. Laurent, the Prime Minister of the day and it was pure accident that I saw him in a hotel while visiting Hamilâ€" ton. F John Diefenbaker was my hero when I was in high school and univamty(bdnlcwum)mdlhnflnthirdfiulnflhim, he remembered who I was. As a 12â€"yearâ€"old, I had been part of a tour of the House of Commons given by the Speaker of the House of that day (a very fine gentleman) and as we sat in the House of Comâ€" mons (in the members‘ seats), he explained parliamentary proceâ€" dure. The next year during the Pipeline Debate, he personally took many blows as did men like Donald Fleming but that also ended in the election of Diefenbaker to the Prime Ministership in 1957 and stimulated myinminbuthewmmia'md_pol_iduhmt;he same era, I knew and worked with a student by the name of Joe Clark whom I found to be an honest and hard worker. It later pumdmegrudythndmemnln-dflnuwmhmmup- port around the country. In Saskatchewan, during the summer of the doctors‘ strike, I watched short in physical stature but large in moral stature, Tommy Douglas, trudge between his home and the Legislature, a bmlymdfa-hnm.yuandthdmmmw care system. I had a huge admiration for Stanley Knowles, the Dean of the House of Commons, whom I remember seeing in the Parliamentary library during dinner break back in the days when the House met evenings. There was no denying his greatness. Amgmfifichuwbdfimmnbaukmdlomhn who maybe should have, I would include along with Joe Clark, peoâ€" ple like Robert Stanfield and John Turner. I remember seeing the latter at a conference a year after he resigned from the Trudeau cabinet on principle (he was against the profligate spending and wage and price controls and as Minister of Finance, could not accept thoeepolidu)-ndmtdhowdq'l&ddmheuumd.}& honor never earned him any plaudits. Yet, voters seem to like the guy (who at afterâ€"dinner speeches acts more like a clown) from Shawinigan who stuck with the spenders in the cabinet (what got us into trouble economically), never spoke out on principle, and is now leader of his party. While doing my Ph.D at the University of Alberta, the future Preâ€" mmlzvesqxhcunedmmmmyduufllmm@&- ily impressed with his quick wit and evolving ideas about _ My first vote came in Great Britain when I was doing my M.Sc. (Econ.) and there I have to say that someone of the calibre of The heck with politicians (Continued on page 18) Paul and Dale Gellatly have recently opened the ‘Twelfth Night Music Shoppe in Waterloo. Gellatlys‘ new business is music to their ears Paul Gellatly no longer relies on a package of Tums to calnfhis upset stomach these days. For 20 years he had been in charge of distribution and warehousing for Uniroyal/Goodrich Canada Ltd. It was a highâ€"pressure job dealing in millions of dolâ€" lars. But that‘s all behind him now. Gellatly admits that he‘s one of the luckier ones from Uniroyal/Goodrich. When the north plant closed down last year, he was offered a job with the company in either Montreal or South Carolina, but he declined. His roots are here, in Waterloo, and he settled for a healthy severance package instead. Today, he has kissed bigâ€"business stress goodbye after he and his wife, Dale, opened the Twelfth Night Music Shoppe in the Promenade on Erb Street in Now, instead of the droning sounds of machinery turning out tires, Gellatly‘s work environment is filled with sweet, mellow music. Instrumental music from Kenny G to Tchaikovsky;, and vocals from the Paul James Band to Luciano Pavarotti line the shelves of his 750â€"squareâ€"foot store, which opened just one month ago. He admits that the Twelfth Night isn‘t trying to compete against the larger music stores, such as Sam‘s or HMV, but there is a place in the market for this niche. Ironically, many of the larger chains have similar compact discs to the ones sold at Twelfth Night, but some of the people who decided to explore those larger chains are, what Gellatly calls, "intimiâ€" Bringing your message home â€" 886â€"2830 on Aboriginal music.