. AND WHILE YER LOOKIN’ FER THOSE MILLION SOCKEYE , SEE IF Y'CAN SPOT THEM CoHO THAT WENT MISSIN’ LAST YEAR ... OH YEAH AND THE CoD... SEE IF YCAN SPOT THEM Too. — "NEWS VIEWPOINT ~ Conservatively independent HUCK Cook is that rarest of polit- ical birds: one who speaks his mind ; rather than simply mouthing the ‘party line.” The Nerth Vancouver Tory MP told the News Wednesday that he would sit as an ‘independent MP if tke residents in his “riding voted no-in the Oct. 26 referendum --on Canada’s constitutional package. a < Cook said. he would follow the wishes ‘of ‘his. constituents : and - vote no on the constitutional deal. That ‘vote would ran counter to the Conservative party, line, but it would follow. ‘Cook’s recent vote in- the House of | Commons against. the constitutional refer- eadum question. 4 major: federal parties, to vote no. 7 reform -. Cook was the only member of the three His. action perturbed his fellow Tory MPs. Capilano-Howe Sound MP Mary Collins, an enthusiastic Tery party cheerleader, said she was shocked by Coek’s action. Cook, however, was more shecked by a constitutional package that entrenches a 25% House of Commons representation for Quebec and leaves B.C. under- represented in the House. Cook’s views have been refreshingly candid during his entire term as a North Shore MP. They’ have not always been shared by his fellow politicians, or members of the media. But they have always rung with personal conviction and = sincerity, characteristics virtually extinct in the modern political arena. “NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK ~ ‘ace violence encouraged by ‘bad’ history — THE 40-YEAR Cold War is beginning to lock almost like the good old days — compared to today’s genocide in. Yugoslavia, ethnic violence in minor republics of the old USSR, refugee-bashing German neo-Nazis, Somalia’s star- ving millions and riot-ravaged Los Angeles. Distinguished U.S. historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., in a recent interview by Financial Post writer Joan Sutton Straus, calls it ‘‘an explosion of long repressed ethnic, | racial, religious, national antago-.~ nisms.”’ And he fears its impact on his own country. Hence his stern warning to multicultural! fanatics now in charge of many U.S. schools. By having distorted history taught in . the classrooms, he argues, they — encourage world ethnic violence to take root and spread on this con- - tinent. With Canada inevitably copying. - A former adviser of President John F. Kennedy, Schlesinger is no racist, He’s all for “teaching ° our kids about other continents, cultures, creeds, colors wher that means giving proper recognition to the role of minorities (in the - U.S.) ... when it meaus seeing things from different viewpoints."* But “‘multicultuzalism ..,. car- ried to the point of promoting and perpetuating separate ethnic and racial communities” alarms him. That’s the theme of his latest book, The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, in which he deplores the erosion of the famed American “melting pot.’’ . That concept of newcomers. assimilating and integrating into - the nation’s mainstream! — enriching it, but also IDENTIFY- ING with it — was the secret of America’s success, he believes. ’_ Now it’s at risk in school histo- ry curriculums that teacti — for exainple —— that'everything good came out of Africa, that allt black kids’ ancestors were wise, just... kings and queens, and that whites bear the guilt for everything: wrong witli society. Noel Wright - HITHER AND YON. on values, traditions and identi. Guarding THOSE shoit id be’ one of the vital duties performed by North American schocis. ° Schlesinger thinks they're, betray - ing it. DATELINES: ‘Family Day. ‘entertainment, food and fu parents and kids alike — day from. Lp.m, at'Wi terfront off the North Shore y campaign headed by. Reyat Garry : ont Herbert Grubel : canifidate Nef Thera : The issue, Schlesinger st stresses, we “Wedinesday, Sep is not the teaching of African — or any ‘other race’s — history. -~. - _ “The issue is the teaching of bad | history under whatever sthnic . banner.”* You don’t need the imagination of a science-fiction novelist to © Capiiano-Howe Sound MP. Mery, tayed for the whele North: Vancouver, District layor Murray Dykeman te Coun. Joan Gadsby as she left Monday hight’s -council meeting. Gadsby ‘had earlier. criticized the mayor’s : ,performance in council meetings ‘and said she was tired of 7 “babysitting” Dykeman. a “And ‘Canada, on a per capita . Dasis, has even.a worse fire record ' than the U.S. We win the Stantey : Cup of embarrasement.’’ Peter Speck - Timothy Renshaw . Wright Linda. Stewart Doug Foot ‘Managing Editor aahrantising Dhector .Comptrotier Retired fire chief Don Pamplin, on Canada’s fire safety record. “I'm here now because I can lie tow. But as far as getting support goes, it’s tough. There’s no culture here.’ West Vancouver artist Monique Mees, on culture in Vancouver. “SI have to face myself in the mir- ror every morning. I have to tive with myself — that’s why I did it. I’m Jooking. at it from a B.C, point of. view and from a B.C. point of view this deal stinks.’' Display Advertising 980-0511 Real Estate Advertising 985-6962 Newsroom Wevth Shore News,. founded in 1969 as an suburban qualified Toe Act t newspaper and under Schedule 111, Para raph itt of the Excise Published ea: ednesday, Friday and North ‘Shore Free Press itd. and ~ door on the North Shore. : a eeeonsealty manuscripts ‘and necompanied by a but we ca: for unsolicited material inalucing Pictures which should be a stamped, addrossed envelope. 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, - North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 Distribution . Subscriptions 986-1337 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Fax 985-3227 5 Administration 985-2131. North Vancouver MP . Chuck Cook, on being the only MP from - the three major federal political parties to vote against the consti- tutional referendum question. “No system will work if certain ‘individuals are bound and deier- mined te throw a wrench in the _ Spokes,”* North Vancouver District Coun. Rick Buchols, during debate over the district’s new schedule of holding. district council meetings once every two weeks instead of once Per week. 986-1337 61,582 (average circulation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) Entire contents © 1992 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. apply his thinking to much in to- -.- to North Vai-birthday girls Jo: aay’ * politically correct Canadian . WeBionde and Pam Weseen::“* history curriculums, developed to - promote political agendas. The New World still holds out a welcorme banner for people from” every corner of the globe, with their many and varied contribu- - comebacks : tions. But not at the expense of i its’ RRS TEC ENTT, - ASPIRING REFORM candidate-nominees in Taayoove ~ Kei Grubel (left) and Nei Thompson.