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...bishops' paper is a direct attack on the proinvestment policies of Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, a Catholic. Trudeau has argued that Canada must stress profits, wage restraints, investment and productivity. Challenging those priorities, the commission condemns "the renewed emphasis on the 'survival of the fittest' as the supreme law of economics" and asks for controls on profits, soak-the-rich taxation, a bigger role for labor unions and government programs to create jobs...
...want people who presently are powerless in society to become participants rather than statistics who are told what to expect from the mandarins and the corporate executives," said De Roo. Trudeau, traveling in Thailand last week, was unimpressed by the bishops' statement: "I don't think their economics are very good...
...fuss about Doonesbury anyway? I for one have no idea who Uncle Duke is, and I don't really care. I've tried reading Doonesbury a few times--it wasn't easy getting past that over-stylized and repulsive artwork--and I found it to be singularly not funny. Trudeau's "humor" is, at best, generic, and his characters are either stereotypes or hold-overs from the '60s. To claim that the loss of Doonesbury is a cultural tragedy is like suggesting that Friday the 13th Part III is progressive filmmaking. It's about time Trudeau put away his crayons...
...Garry Trudeau had no one to break up with. And for all the sentence he may have weathered, his characters were reassuringly age-proof, day after day. What could have cut them short...
Otherwise let us take courage and remind ourselves that trials like these strengthen character in the end; let us silence the sinister skeptics among us who suggest that this is really curtains forever for "Doonesbury" --that Trudeau's line about a "vacation" is a ploy to ease readers into the more terrible truth--and finally, let us fantasize. Maybe Garry Trudeau still draws a strip every day and puts it away in a drawer. Maybe in 1984 at the end of his sabbatical, he'll set them all free--more than 500 brand new sequences, more than 2000 new frames...