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eral Herb Gray, but, as word is "misinformed." elephants have short rats won‘t forget Mr. to the list of potential must rate just ahead of incede that it‘s far from re program is coming in of Canadians said they -medmthell.& ides huge and growin§ , they‘re enough :::':mekmwhb who say that Canada‘s accused the civil serâ€" VER LIGHTLY more often and still t h take another sound with a voice on ! * our health dot ion in the Does that mean the son of an Irish man and a native Canadian woman is doomed to be a pugilistic bum? Is a person with only one Jewish grandparent only oneâ€"quarter as cheap as a person‘with two Jewâ€" person belongs to? I see and hear it everywhere I go: "Oh, she‘s a Jew, it‘s just the way they are"; "Those black guys sure can run"; "Those Japs are trying to run the world." People say such things with a straight face, but each statement carries with it the assumption that no member of any of these groups thinks for his or her self, or has any individual identity. I‘ve been told I‘m just naive about matters of race, religion and other ways they try to separate "us" from "them". "Wait‘ll you have to work for one," they say, or, "You‘ll be sorry when your neighborhood is filled with them, too." In a world where twins often have totally different personalities, how can one say some people who never met and only share a superficial characteristic like skin color or religious belief are "all alike"? What ever happened to individuality? Do only WASPs have it? It‘s akin to believing that every person born when the sun was in Taurus is strongâ€"willed while every person born while the sun was in Scorpio is oversexed. Most people ridicule astrology, but many of those same people would swear to you that Irishmen love to prejudged using crude generalizations gathered up over the years (or centuries) to describe a group that You know those humans they‘re really all the same uwmmuuhm Consider the Further cuts to Unemployment Insurance are an attack on the unemployed (including pregnant women). A more responsible â€"dare Iâ€"say more liberal â€" approach would be to introduce a budget that attacked unemployment. The cuts will throw hunâ€" dreds of thousands more onto provincial welfare rolls. The introduction of a means test for UI goes against the intention of the program and opens the door to more radical restrictions in future budgets. 4 While the business entertainment deduction was scaled back from 80 to 50 per cent, the basic inequity of the writeâ€"off was not addressed. Why should the public be forced to pay for business peoples‘ meals, SkyDome luxury boxes and escort services? With the exception of the laudable elimination of the capital gains exemption, other tax breaks, such as the exempâ€" The Liberals are masters of doing in government / \ what they opposed while in opposition. Despite the ‘(&\\) party‘s apparent amnesia, many Canadians still ; tion for { remember that Jean Chretien and his ranks of Red . touched. Book readers campaigned against NAFTA and GATT ~had take changes that will lead to the elimination of marketing: ~stated. boards. Others of us have vague recollections of a Lib _ 4 Lim: eral party which opposed cuts in transfer payments, â€" continue restrictions on Unemployment Insurance and public â€"1996. Su sector pay freezes. both Jea Paul Martin‘s budget of last week was so eerily 1993 ele reminiscent of those introduced by Michael Wilson â€" sions to and Don Mazankowski that one had to wonder if he â€" $2.5 billi Racism has always puzzled me. What makes any of us think an individual can be ple of different races and religions, and so on. One big gmwlmpnphmflddm find some way to divide "us" and "them". I can just hear them now: "Those longâ€"fingered people are so selfish;" "T hate those pushy albinos;" "I don‘t want no individual, and with judi One of the great things about living in Canada, compared to life in the relatively homogeneous counâ€" tries of Europe, is that we are exposed to so many A wonderful thought: what if millions of men and children, and their children grew up and married peoâ€" that for some, the message eventually sinks in that deep down, everyone is basically the same. Christian or Jew, black or white, fat or skinny â€"â€" we all want to ish parents? Upon analysis, all stereotypes are stereotypically ridiculous. But they are also hurtful and unjust. Every man and woman deserves to be treated as an continue for another year, followed by a freeze in 1996. Such cuts, which were vociferously opposed by both Jean Chretien and Andrew Telegdi during the 1993 election, do nothing but pass on difficult deciâ€" gions to the provinces. Faced with shortfalls of up to $2.5 billion per year (as in Ontaric‘s case), they must either cut social services, raise taxes or increase their mdfl.H-dbndn'i:hmfid- eralism that the Liberals allegedly been trying to build. & A public sector wage freeze will not be felt much by MPs, Senators or senior bureaucrats, but a recepâ€" tionist earning $18,000 per year cannot afford to go for five years without an increase in wages. Under the Liberals, the federal government continues to build a reputation as one of the worst employers in the counâ€" with a government employee. Other than a few symbolic, but welcome, victories (e.g. the reinstatement of the Court Challenges Proâ€" gram, the cuts in defense spending, and the continuaâ€" tion of the RRSP homebuyers plan), very little has changed since October 25. 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