A6 - Wednesday, August 29, 1984 - North Shore News \NHERE IS THE MONEY COMING FROM? YOULL FIND OUT Good questions ON AUGUST 28 ix key issues in next Tuesday’s election have been raised by the National Citizens Coalition, a Toronto-based interest group dedicated to ‘‘more freedom through less government’’. The questions, which follow, were asked in a recent nationwide Gallup Poll commissioned by the NCC. Reported poll results from decided respondents are shown in brackets: *Do you want democracy in the workplace and the right to earn a living? (YES 70% -- including 62% among admitted ‘‘labor’’ respondents). *Do you want Crown Corporations sold? (YES 57%). *Do you want the federal government forced by law to balance the budget? (YES 72%) *Do you disapprove of fully indexed pen- sions for MPs? (YES 62%) °*Do you want to sell PetroCan? (YES 50%) *Do you want the right to private property entrenched in the constitution? (YES 80%). Since the above figures were independently produced by Gallup, they are presumably as credible as all the other polls of the past seven weeks. While not the only issues in the current election campaign, in which issues as such have had remarkably shallow treat- ment, they do bear directly on many of the major problems facing Canada after Sept.4. In the next few days they seem very good questions for voters themselves to put to in- dividual candidates to determine just where the latter stand. owhere to go now but up? OHN TURNER’S BEST FRIENDS in his hour of dire need next Tuesday are likely to be the selfsame pollsters who, on paper, have -that any change must be bet- ter than more of the same, Canadians remain a kindly Muffed chance f the building trades leaders had been smart, they’d have agreed VOLUNTARI- LY to work alongside non-union labor at Expo, emphasizing that the gesture was a special exception made in the public interest to complete the fair on time. They’d have won needed public support and most of the jobs anyway. Instead, by waiting until forced by law to let non-union labor in, they muffed their chance to head off similar government intervention at other ‘‘development sites’’ in the future. FIG YORE OF MONTH AED WHBT VANCIYER north shore Display Advertising 980-0511 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985.2131 Circulation 986.1337 Subscriptions 980-2707 news SUNDAY WEDNESDAY . FRHDAY 1139 Lonsdale Ave . North Vancouver. 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Last weekend, with the Grits trailing the Tories na- tionally by almost 30 points and the PM himself rele- gated to third place tn Quadra behind the NDP, ut became inconceivable that things (poll-wise) could possibly get any worse In Howe Street language, Mr Turner's market simply has to have bottomed out The mathematical odds alone suggest his) personal fortunes and those of his party have plunged so low that, between now and 8 pm on September 4, they have nowhere left to go but UP The result on voting day may be ao slightly better showing for the Liberals and them embattled leader than present numbers indicate, duc to a couple of messy by products of the opinion polls themselves The first as the risk) that the huge Tory lead promised by the polisters may make Tory voters over-confident. When you're guaranteed almost hourty that nothing, but nothing, can stop Bran Mulroney from chalking up the biggest landslide in Ca nadian history, personal commitment inevitably tends (0 flag a little Sure, Mr. Mrs) and Ms Tory intend to turn out) But September 4 does happen to be one of the busiest days of the year, what with Back to School and Back to- Work So if something un foreseen arises to keep them trom the polling station after all, don’t worry too much The POs will sweep the country anyway leave it to George -- he'll be voung A lot of Tory Creorges who also don’t make it could be saying cxactly the same thing Meanwhile, vou can bet your last cent thal every known Liberal supporter sal breathing next Tuesday morning will somehow — be LETTER OF THE DAY Hooray for the Blue Dear Editor West Vancouver's separate bus system uw dotng oa fan With the “other system’ out oon strike, many North Van couverites and visitors to the North Shore are nding our tastic yob these days Jone municipal system lt ts scl running because the Bluc Bus isa separate cntity from the government owned col ossus, BC Transit Recently, there was a move to establish a common Maintenance facihty on the North Shore Imagine what that would have done The Bluc Bus system would have been shut down along with Bs ¢ Transit because they would have used the same storage yards, maintenance equipment, mechanics ctc 1 for one am opposed to lumping everything into one government owned bag economies of scale are over tated) particularly in the transporlation business bach municipality of group by Noel Wright hauled to the ballot box be fore sunset Secondly, there's the sym pathy factor However huge a majority of the electorate is determin ed to stick at to the ruinous old Trudeau gang, convinced of mumicipahbties should be cncouraged to have thei own system Contract oul as much as possible to the private sec tot Then the publi wall not be held to ransom whenever and wherever vested in terests, employer or employee dominated, want to throw their weight around Greater Victoria's system should be separate from that of Greater Vancouver’ Had that been the case for the past 12 months the bus drivers in the Capital District would people with a fondness for underdogs. There’s never been a political underdog quite so far under as poor John Turner -- honest, tal- ented and experienced, but denied from the start all hope of proving himself as prime minister by a single mistake: being in the fatally wrong place at the fatally wrong ume. IT suspect more than a few Trudeau-haters secretly ad- mire the man’s guts and dignity in his desperate situa tion and dislike the necessity of trouncing him as met cilessly as the polls have done to date Add to that the sall significant body of “undecideds’> whom the pollsters prefer to forget and there could sall be some happy tittle surprises to brighten Black Tuesday tor Mr Turner, thanks to Gallup and othe (€ arleton School of Journalism, any surprise during the next six days can hardly fail to be a happy one Buses! have = settled Victorians would be riding happily as before As tor the Lower Mainland, | believe that Rapid Lransit (rail) should be separate from bus operations on the streets Sea Bus should be a separate entity) Then the carners do our bidding. The Bluc Bus is a good example {ong may It operate in the tp terest of its riders Hon. Jack Davis, M.L.A. North Vancouver-Scymour