Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 18, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Phi 2001 local a Harry Ems looks Back on his 35 sometimes turbulent years As an la a Fine and forthright rogue by Mia Rabson Harry Enns is an endangered he is a politician who int afraid to Tell you what he thinks and he int afraid to admit Hes made his 35th anniversary As a conserva Tive la will be celebrated wednes and although Hes pretty sure most people know by now what he stands he has a portrait of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher on the Wall above his visible As soon As you walk in the for anyone who needs a As a first generation Canadian whose parents emigrated from the for Mer soviet Union to Manitoba in he keeps a reminder on another Wall of How Lucky he is to be its an aged photograph of a late which he sees every time he looks up from his his Uncle was killed by the army during the russian revolution because he didst follow their at 69 known As the Dean of the chamber in the Manitoba was first elected june and has been reelected nine the Only time the fight was even close was in when he want supposed to Chai smoking in his office last week while flipping through scrap books of 35 years of newspaper clip pings and he pulls out a Story that says prior to the 1969 elec everyone was saying poor Harry he was running against the new lib eral Bobby in the Lake Side Riding former Liberal Premier Doug Campbell had held for 42 and he was in hot water Over a Deci Sion to build Hydro dams flooding land of the South Indian Lake first was drowning in South Indian Lake and everyone said i would be he but at the they were saying poor Bobby in his 35 years As Enns has served under four conservative pre Miers and has been in opposition five he has held five different port folios As a government things have changed a lot during his television has made politicians actors who have Learned to talk in sound the issues have changed As when i it was Daylight Sav Ings vegetables and coloured he now its All health health care and occasion ally Hes has had his share of criticism while in the loudest with respect to the South Indian Lake he also got into hot water for dissolving the Manitoba vegetable marketing commission and still has toy pigs in his office As reminders of the criticism he endured for making changes to the hog marketing Industry in the he remembers getting the gears for his decision to rehabilitate Oak Ham mock it was the Only time i became the subject matter of Graffiti on City build Enns smiling As he remembers his son running Home to Tell him hed just seen Duck Harry Enns scrawled in Spray paint on a City build former free press columnist Arlene who wrote from the Legisla Ture from 1969 until remembers Enns As a member of the old boys club who never followed the he broke every Rule in the Book and probably prompted some new she he often said totally unacceptable things and then left the Cham Ber Billinkoff remembers that Enns used to quote unnamed experts As an opposition critic during question and that once when he was asked to identify the he looked around the chamber and gave the first name of a tory from the Back Row and the last name of a radio reporter who was sit Ting in the press Enns admits he want always the most upstanding member of the i have crossed the line before and i dont feel proud of he he once was involved in a situation Simi Lar to the current rift in the Canadian publicly questioning his leaders policy and was removed from his Post As Deputy but we went on to happier times and we made he e t inns still Breaks the rules some he Seldom is involved in question choosing instead to read magazines and books with his Back to the government benches from time to but he is always paying attention and is usually the first to look up from his Book and shoot an insult across the floor or Pound his desk with his Enns was born at Concordia Hospital and grew up in Winnipeg inner attending Victoria Albert and Johns High twice he has three one daughter and two in his fou year old son David drowned in an Accident on the family farm in he is still a cattle although it is secondary to his political political careers seems to run in his Ernie Enns was a Winnipeg councillor and Sig Enns was a tory my during John Diefenbaker reign As prime we called ourselves the poor Kennedy of Enns although his 70th birthday is draw ing and Many wonder what keeps him going after 35 especially with the bitterness of the tory defeat Advance l Competition stereo Over s3000 in prizes admission is Register for the do drag Raen june starting j 1 am i i1ul Canad inn be parking lot formerly Winnipeg off maroons preregister at the Advance car Auto department head Mead do drag racing monday to saturday competitors have 30 seconds to achieve the highest Reading on the computerized Decibel Onty Amateur classes will compete for trophies and the right to go on to the finals in i have crossed the line before and i dont feel proud of that1 in Enns int quite ready to throw in the i have a deep respect for the system and nothing has happened in 35 years to change he i still enjoy and i still enjoy the d Harry Enns hell be asking the questions on special Day question period is a ritual in the parliamentary it is the time opposition members can put the government on the spot and Call them to account for their policy but this wednesday its going to be a Little there might be there might be the usual impassioned pleas and banging of but every ques Tion will be posed by the tory la for Harry Enns is celebrating his 35th anniversary in the House this and the tory caucus has decided to make question period on wednesday Harry Enns Enns laughs about wondering what he is going to do for the whole but he is touched by the As a the Leader takes most of the he so its an Hon our and a Nice Way for the caucus to Hon our my conservative Leader Stuart Murray says Enns longevity in the House and knowledge of the issues that have faced the province for More than three never ceases to amaze when he starts to talk about i just sit Back in Murray he is a real icon in our Murray thinks this is a Chance for both sides of the House to remember Why Enns has been elected nine i think its going to be a wonderful Murray when Harry stands to ask question after i think both sides will enjoy Enns wont have totally free rein to ask anything he wants Murray said they will discuss the issues the party wants to As they usually do but most of the time the other Las will Bow to Enns experience and sit Back and enjoy his Enns Celebration will last Well beyond question with a roast and tory fundraiser at the Hitchn Post in Grosse Isle wednesday his actual election anniversary is sat june a s Tern Chrysler Dodge jeep inc i Batik Chrysler Dodge jeep Security Deposit on All new caravans grand caravans this month Only 2001 Dodge Bryan Ambrozik new car sales manager Glus More Price 24f 688 financing on selected models 2001 Chrysler Neon be 4 4 Only 1 00 sales 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