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PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Monday, July 21, 1978

“Pyssycat, Pussycat, where have you been?
I've been to Morocco a-snubbing the Queen"’

“Pierre is really just a big Pusscat” reporter
quotes Margaret as saying.

Queen Elizabeth is Queen of Canada. Sur-
prisingly, enough - unless one realizes we live in
an age of ignorance - the average Canadian has
little knowledge of the relationship of Canada to
the monarchy. ;

This is why you can still hear such ignorant
remarks as: “Why should Canada have to pay
millions of dollars to support the Royal Family in
England?

Fact: Canada Does not pay one cent towards
supporting the Royal Family! (Look it up, if you
don’t believe me!) ;

“Why should the Queen come over here, with

(or without) ber family, sticking her nose in our —

own affairs. Why doesn’t she stay in England
where she belongs. They’ve got enough troubles
over there for her to work on?’

Fact: No member of the Royal Family ever .
visits Canada (or any other country in the

‘Commomwealth) uncless a special invitation, by .

the head of a country or his representative is
received - usually a year or more in advance,

" She only goes when she is asked by that country.”

What expenses does Canada pay then? Canada
pays the expenses of the Royal tour, from the
time it leaves the United Kingdon for Canada
until it either returns to the U.K. or leaves for
another tour elsewhere.

Why is the Queen coming to Canada this time?
Primarily to open the British Commonwealth
Games at Edmonton, where athletes from
Commonweaitth countries all around the World
will be taking part in an event second only in size
to the Montreal World Olympics, in Canada. As

OTTAWA OFFBEAT

by Richard Jackson

Ottawa, - When the federal government starts to f
feel guilty, you know something's rotten in Fat &

Not that it hasn’t been rotten for a long time.
The rotting began when former departmental
deputy minister Lester Pearson, ex-

Undersecretary of State for External Affairs,

moved into the Prime ister's office and
the building of the Public Service Empire

that lords it over the land.
The empire was, put together by Lester

ITORIAL —

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such she will represent the entire Com-
monwealth of which she is Queen.

Won’t this bea huge expense to Canada? Won't
it cost a couple of million dollars?

Probably not that much. But even if it did here
are some other factors that should be looked at,
if one is speaking of cost. __
_ The Queen, and members of the Royal Family,
are making a number of visits on their way to
Edmonton. (Newfoundaland being just one of
them), 80 it isn’t a one-shot expense; Canada is
getting a lot of mileage, lasting a couple of weeks
or more, out of that money.

The Royal Family is still the greatest “box
office” money-maker for Canada, greater than
any movie star, rock and roll group, - even Billy

‘Carter, or his lesser known brother, “Jimmy’’!

A top celebrity like Bob Hope, for example,
would cost a cool million dollars just for a single-

day visit to open the Commonwealth Games.

Muhammed Ali would demand two to four
million - and no one could guarantee he wouldn't
é his mind at the last minute, or that there
would not be violent demonstrations.

The Royal Visit is planned down to the last
detail, and never, in the last 70 years at least, has
“goofed off’. Everything connected with it is
solid. Even before the Family set off for its
Yellowknife visit in 1970, a hun cases of Sch-

weppes bottled drinking water had arrived -

months in advance to prevent Royal stomach
upsets from a change in the drinking water. The

Royal Family is 100 per cent professional and 99.

percent fool-proof box-office.

For every dollar spent in bri the Family
over, Canadian businessmen and Canadian
government stand to get back ten - that’s one
thousand per cent profit. How?

Pearson and his former buddies, a ruling | Ne

aristocracy of deputies, Who bossed not only the
public but their own political masters, the
ministers of the cabinet.

This powerful oligarchy, protected and
preserved by its own Old Boy Network, has
prospered to the point now that it it causing a
worrisome stench in the election-sensitive nose
of the government. ot

It is the smell of greed.

The odor rises from the practice of senior
public servants — from the $35,000-a-year men up
to the $70,000 deputies ~ taking early retirement
on indexed pensions, then returning to work for
the government on contract as highly-paid
consultants. ;

They frequently return (on pension which runs.
70 percent of their previous salary, i to

protect against inflation) to the same job, in the:

same department, and often at the same desk for’
consulting fees that can run up as high as $25.000.

A recent example was the return of a former .

deputy on a $30,000 indexed pension to do a job
for an indefinite period at $500 aday.-

What made it peculiar was that it was the
same job he previously had done.

It raised the question: what was wrong with
his successor, himself a senior deputy now,
drawing maybe an annual $65,000? Was he in-
capable, and if not, why wasn’t he doing the job?

It’s all smoothly engineered by the self-
perpetuating Old Boys Netowrk.

And it’s big business.

‘There are some 70 consulting firms in Fat City,
and the best-known of them run by former senior
public servants. —

Last year, consultants and other special and
professional services — working in an advisory
capacity to the government on contract — picked
up $1.4 billion.

The government, until recently, has defended
the system. . ,

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SASKATOON (CP) — two minutes and she didn't

The Queen In Saskatchewan

et
aie:

Well, we've already mentioned the Queen as
the top North American drawing card. Her visit
brings flocks of tourists from all over the world -
especially the U.S. - just to get a personal
glimpse of her. -

The Royal Family is photogenic and top News
Copy. It sells T.V. coverage and sells
newspapers. oo
Hotel accommodations, gasoline, toll high-
ways and toll bridges, airlines, buslines, taxis,
restaurant meals and fast food outlets, camera
film and processing (everyone in the crowd
wants to shoot a roll of film of the Royal party,

_ even if all they get s a glimpse of the brim of the
Queen’s hat!) U-Drives, - ‘that’s just the start.
. Then there are guidebooks, souvenir programs,

T-Shirts, tea-pots, cups and saucers of bone
chinagwith a “Commonwealth Games” motif
wi Queen's picture on it that Canadian

buy for a couple of dollars each .and sell for
five, On and on and on one could continue the list
of profitable items Canadians stand to turn over
all because for one short week, the “Family” set
foot on Canadian soil.

And what does the Queen, and Philip - get out
of all this? Do they get a percentage of the take?
Not on your sweet violets, they don’t!

They get threatening letters, bombs planted,
protestors, hate messages, ‘‘Go Home, Queenie”

cards thrust in their face. And they risk their
ives every time they leave England. They are
exposed to the burning temperatures of an
August sun in Edmonton’s concrete pavement -
to the 40 below zero (Celsius or Fahrenheit -
they’re both equal, at 40 below!) - of Resolute
Bay, or Grise Fiord, in the High Arctic. And,
somewhere among all those cranks and fanatics
and would-be revolutionists - are millions and

The program encourages

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millions of average people whose lives are made -
happier, who hearts are made warmer, and egos
helped because, for a few seconds to a few
minutes or so, they have experienced the magic
ef the chemistry that takes place in a crowd
during the presence of the monarch at a Royal
Visit, A monarch who is a living link with a royal
family that dates back hundreds and hundreds of
years, and is tied tous by the language we speak,
the literature we read, the plays we perform, the
poems we recite, and the parliament whose laws
govern and protect us from womb to tomb.
Whose very existence we are reminded of, by the
word ‘Royal’ in the Royal Canadian Mounted .
Police, the Royal Canadian Navy, Army and Air
Force - and 80 on. —
Now having said this, it comes. as a‘sad
commentary that the man whom we elected as

‘Prime Minister of our land, when the Royal

Family arrived in Canada, at his country’s:
special invitation, was not on hand to greet them,

‘on behalf of the Canada he was elected to.
represent. Rather, if our information is correct, —_

he remained on holidays in Morocco.
Even this display of apparent bad manners

would seem less inexcusable had it not been for

the Prime Minister's silly actions during a
reception in Britain when, after just having been
introduced to the Royal Family, he passed

‘behind them and executed a pirouette and a

short jig that was witnessed and photographed
for publication in newspa and magazines
around the world - as surely he must have known

it would be.

Surely, as Canada’s minister, Trudeau
should have been on d to greet the main
guests he had invited. H-for no other reason-

than Canadian taxpayers are paying for it!

STAR SPANGLED BANNER

For those of our readers who have stumbled
through “God Save The Queen”, hiccupped
through
“The Star Spangled Banner”, on occasion, here
is the first verse - the only verse sung at a ball
game or ‘other similarly patriotic occasion, in the

S. 0

Since you never know when the new Province
of Levesque will be declared, (which will,
naturally, have as its National Anthem, “0,
Rene Simar”’) we better start memorizing
T.5.5.B. - just in case.

Hopefully, if any threat to B.C. should arise
from the Far East (La Province Renee) we can
safely turn to our C.LA. friends (disguised as
American Tourists,) in their thousands of

re to them to run up
‘the Stars 3 aecrelly hiddlet th every '
Airs ) re i our’
loyalty to Billy Carter by burs!
rehearsed first verse of O Say
Then, maybe, they'll consent to take us over - if

we throw in the Tarsands and offshore fishing

rights, as a starter!

Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last ”

eee broad stripes and bright stars, through .
the perilous fight

O'er the ramparts we watched were gallantly

streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in

air
Gave proof through the night that our flag was
stil there.

Oh, say does that Star Spangled Banner yet
wave, Lo
O’er the land of the free and the home of the
brave?

“0 Canada!” and mumbled through —

Lone. protestor Bradley
Harley met Queen Elizabeth
at the Saskatoon Airport
Sunday with a sign reading
“Abollah the Monarchy.”

But after the Queen,
Prince Philip and 14-year-old
Ee mich rage

up his sign an
put it in his back-

It was the visible
protest the Queen had en-
countered on her 12-day tour
of Canada, which started
July 26 in St. Joim’s, Nfld.

At Moose Jaw earlier
Sunday, parishioners
scrambled for souvenir
propromt after the royal

mily attended an Anglican
church service, wheren
Prince Phillp read the
lepeon.

Almost every pew was
filled in the $05-seat church
and one regular church-goer
was a that he was
unable to sit in his regular

pew.

“We want our regular
seats," he said loudly to no
one in particular as the
congrgation awalted the
Queen's arrival,

Programs of the service
and picture postcards of the
church, which was built in
1910, were available to those
who attended the service.
bA crowd had gathered
gutsidethe church before the
Royal family arrived and the
church caretaker made a
last-minute sweep of the red

carpet.
SPECTATOR ANNOYED
al tarily arrived, the
Royal fa arrived, they
went directly into the
church, much to the dismay
of one woman in the crowd
outside: ‘All that waiting for

even turn around.”

After the church service,
ac led by Moose Jaw
Mayor Herb Taylor, the
royal visitors strolled briefly
through Crescent Park,
chatting with well wishers.

Prince Philip stopped to
chat with Moose Jaw Police
Constable Mike Read as the
tour passed through the

park.

Read was a police officer
in Buckinghamshire,
England, and the prince
asked him how he came to be
wi in the Sas-
katchewan community.

The royal visitors then

board a flight to Saskatoon.

The Queen took a royal
salute from 100-member
honor guard assembled on
the airport tarmac as dark
clouds and a brisk wind
replaced the sunny skies of
earlier in the day.

The royal party was to
spend the night at the
residence of the president of
the University of Saskat-
chewan, The tour resumes

today.

Saturday night in Regina,
guests chosen at random by
a computer wined and dined
with Queen Elizabeth and
Prince Philip.

About 60 of the dinner
guests were chosen by a
computer check of
Saskatchewan health ser-
vices files. An additional 180
couples were invited to an
after-dinner concert at-

the tended by the Queen.

“Tt was fantastic,” said
Thelma Wallace, director of
a senior citizens service in
Regina. “I think anyone who
is an anti-monarchist is a

damn fool—and you can
quote me on that.” ;

YORKTON, Sask. (CP) —
Two Yorkton workmen were

Philip were about to step off
the dais at the Yorkton
Agriplex when the workmen
scurried across the ground
with a large roll of red

carpet.

As the Queen, the prince
and hundreds of others
watched, the men hastily
unrolled the carpet from the
dais to a slage, where she
was supposed to walk to cuta
cake baked for Yorkton's
50th anniversary
el hecarpet was too

ut the carpet was too long
and it looked as if the Queen
would have to step over the
lump of unrolled rug toreach
the stage.

One of the men came up
with a solution. He produced
a long knife and nervously
hacked off the end of the
carpet, leaving an unsightly

ge.

Philip laughed outright
and the Queen appeared
amused.

REGINA, Sask. (CP) —
Prince Phillp presented 10
awards to young peaple from
Ontario, Manitoba and Sas-
katchewan in the library at
the Saskatchewan
legislature Saturday.

He presented certificates
of achievement in the Duke
of Edinburgh's award
program at the gold level.

young to excel in
public service, expeditions,

hobbies and physical fitness.

REGINA (CP) — The
Queenaald Saturday that the
spirit of communal effort she
saw in small Saskatchewan
communities is the path
Canada should take.

She described the effort as
one that is “devoted as much
to creating an enous
culture, by drawing together
the many different ethnic
traditions, as It ia to en-
couraging each of those
traditions to flourish in their

ba Be in Freach,

Then, speaki
the Queen added:

“Indeed I belleve that this
is the path for all Canada. A
free society has to be built on
the co-operation and consent
of all {ts people; free to enjoy
and to foster the heritage of
their forefathers but at the
same time willing to con-
tribute to a distinctive
Canadian culture in what is
my their aoe a French

at paragra
was the only one in the

Queen's speech which made -

ay yr aierence to Canadian

The Queen, wearing a lon
blue Gepechilfon evening
dress with silver-
embroidered bodice and.
matching cape and a tiara of
diamonda, sald it is a pleas-
ure for her to join in the cele-
brations marking Regina's
76th anniversary ag a city.

She recalled that her
greatgreat aunt Princess
Louise had changed the

Continued at Right

Contianed

name of the city of Regina,
“from the sosounst Hess

She said: Saskatchewan's
tradition of combining
economic enterprise with

social and h cultural
eve opment aa been

Among the guests at the
chewan couples picked by &
an couples ya
computer from names on the
Saskatchewan Health
Services Plan list. The
guests ate veal cordon bleu
Bordelsise as a main course;
they drank two domestic
wines.

MOOSE JAW (CP) — Rev.
Reginald Wright of Regina
mow can say he has wor-
shipped with five
generations of the royal
household.

Rev. and Mra. Wright were
among those invited to at-
tend the church service at St.
John's Anglican church
Sunday during the visit by
the Queen, Prince Philip and
Prince Edward.

"J appreciated the in-
viation to come very much,"
said Wright who was rector
of St. Johns from 1956 to 1087.

He had grown up In
England and landed in
Canada on Christmas Day,

1925.

He said be recalls wor-
shipping in the same church
as Queen Alexandra and
George V. He said he was in
Westminster Abbey Nov. 11,
1920, when Queen Mary and

_ the entire household were at

the burial of the unkown;
warrior.

“Wright was also a member
of the choir that on April 23,

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and Prince Philip

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Ed Pinay, Att Walker and ”

‘B.C, Cockwill of
Fort Qu Appelle said he was
not dis by the chiefs’

able to to them.
He and Chief Hilliard
: ° Gordon

McNab of the

reserve agreed that ‘the

chiefs did not intend to slight
the couple on their visit to
this community about 65
kilometres northeast o1

lendent in full Indian
attire, Chief . McNab,
representing 15 chiefs from
the surrounding area, gave
the Queen a beaded
necklace.

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