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Horseshoe Bay’s had enough

Open letter to The Rt. Hon.
Michael Harcourt:

The absence of prior consuita-
tion with municipalities and the
Horseshoe Bay community on
all-night sailings is, in my opi-
nion contemptible and dishonest,
a patent attempt to numb public
protest by a ‘‘done’’ thing.

In fact. Frank Rhodes, B.C.
Ferry Corp. CEO, came to the
He-sesnoe Bay Community
Association meeting (which he
calls *‘successful'’?) to tell us just
that — it’s done and lump it. He
Jeft_ an alienated, deeply-angered
audience. |

It’s quite clear to me that the
Ferry Corporation and successive
governments for many years have
kept their head in the sand about
the real effects of coastal
demographics on future ferry
traffic volumes. Expansion has
clearly been inadequate; so, isn’t
it more than time for a formal
task force?

In the light of current events
this task force had better report to
the public as well as its political
masters.

In the meantime, how dare your
administration force the people of
Horseshoe Bay and Gleneagles
and all along the route to pay for
the shortcoming of government
every night, in their homes, and
— just to make sure the suffering
is complete — offer truckers a
discount to come here?

Horseshoe Bay itself, steadily
improving its quality of civic life
with the cooperation of the
municipality and the unstinting
effort of local volunteers, is now
to be thrust back by this insen-

sktive, political escape hatch not
ont; for your government but
possibly for responsible parties in
the Ferry Corporation who value
their jobs.

Anyone with an ounce of com-
mon sense has observed over re-
cent years that this small cove, in
topography and area, is unsuited
for the burgeoning volumes of
Nanaimo traffic at any time.
There's limited dispersal
possibilities for pollution and
noise; we've already had fatalities.

And on the highway. ap-
proaches, young people in orange

Both sides need

Dear Editor:

Catherine Atyco’s May 8 article
on abortion is a good illustration
of why the issue won't 20 away.

It is typical of the type of arti-
cle that comes from both sides of
the issue. We will never begin to
approach a national consensus on
the issue till some of the following
begin to happen.

Both sides need to revisit the
issue in its totality. This is a med-
ical, moral, legal, sociological,
philosophical, demographic,
psychological and spiritual issue.
Neither side appears willing to
look at all of these areas and try
and understand what they mean to
the diverse elements of our Cana-
dian culture.

Both sides need to view the
other in a new light. There ap-
pears to be a lack of respect for
people with differing opinions.
Both sides tend to hold the argu-

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Horseshoe Bay

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Why do we have to attack the
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It’s time we stopped defining
the issue by the extremes of both
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There has to be a better way. Is
there the will to find it?

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North Vancouver

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