Whltby Free Prou, Wednesday, Februay 22, 1995,. Page 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... ................ Paul's problern We are a nation in waiting. Waiting: for the Quebec Governinent to drop the second shoe and set a referendumn date. Waiting: for NHL Playoffs. (Everything before that is practice.) Waiting: for Paul Martin to drop both shoes and present the nation with a budget. Jacques Parizeau won't start pulling on his reefer-* endums until he sees hallucinations of victory. And NHL playoffs will get here in their own sweet time -- which means when taulips overshadow the doggie-do on spring lawns. Be patient. Parizeau will wait for a federal blunder on any other issue. Like catching Jean Chretien wearing a Leaf jersey., Or Paul Martrn's budget. You see, Paul will tick off many Canadians with the budget. In Quebec, the separatists see this as proof that__________________________________________ federalismn doesn't work. Separatists don't like many things you and 1 don't like. But they expeet sornebody to do soniething about them. Back to the budget. Paul Martin resembles a city sliiker in the middle ofî a cow pasture. He is aware that many eyes are on him. They aren't ail bovine, either, no bull. Paul seems to know enough about pastures to be careful where he steps. .A farmer standing in the samne pasture would be wearing rubber boots. Paul will step carefully because he's afraid of "money markets." There's guys who'd seil the Canadian dollar down to twelve cents or something. Yeah. Too xnany people react to money as though it were real. Once upon a ime the dollar was attached to the gold standard. I used to pretend I understood it. But then everybody went off it, so I didn't have to pretend anymore.d Think about iL: money is paper or coins. The coins cost more to mhint than their face value. Only the governmnent could give itself a licence to print money and lose on the deal. Paper isn't quite the loss leader. But IL EAUSI HON OM TA MN9C. 1915 ain't real either. You can't eat it, drink it, build a house This faehmoned by blacýksnnth Charles Kempthorne (1846-1917) was built in with iL. the 1850s rand dmoesedin196 soo atth s.t eat orerof igwa 2and keq.ep insisting thiat we gotta stop doing real stuif: looking 0 Whitby Public School Board bas a record budget of $325,955 this year. after sick folks, caring for the poor, smnoothing out some 9 The Oshawa Regional Planning Association las called a meeting about forming a of the bumps in life. Why? Because if you're doing those Metro governnient in the area. Councillor William Davidson bas suggested that Whitby's mayor have a chain of things, you can't be doing other useful jobs: like playing office. hockey for a gazillion dollars a game, raking in huge The Town of Whitby weig h scales bebind the town hall at Brock and Coiborne bank profits for counting other people's bookkeeping, Streets have been c sed cause repairs would cost more than revenue received standing up in court and talking. You get the idea. fo hm So that's Paul's problem.' There hie is, out standing in 80OYEARS AGO his field, afraid to step to the left or right for fear of, ah, from the Thursday, February 18, 1915 edition of the repecusions Doî'L ickbrow roks.WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHERONICLE reecif i ere pt eidivePau a airofhpcwks. Whitby churches are celebrating 100 years of 'peace between Canada and the United If i wee u to e, 'd ive aula pir o hi waersStates, while Europe is engulfed in war. for budget day, then advise hirn to stomp straight ahead.* The school management committee will arrange the rules for the new Tamblyn Let the dollar fait. Wrestle the Bank of Canada back Public Speaking Contest. under goverrument control. Keep interest rates low. Free Miss Minnie Viola Powell of Whitby hbas returned from a spealdng tour of Ontario for the Farmers' and Women's Institutes. people Lo do 'real' stuif. Work. The dollars will always Whitby wili be advertised in Toronto newspapers to attract summer residents. corne back.