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"ND now for a little g good news:-accord-
ing toa ‘report from the B.C. govern-
ment, pollution. from the. province’s

pulp, milis has been cut dramatically’ over the

“past three years,

‘But the’ news will only remain: good. if
‘is‘a, commitment from both the govern-
ment. and the ‘pulp ‘industry-to continue cut:
ting ‘all forms. of pulp mill pollution.
The-report stated-that mill pollution from
ie raped gi chlorinated organic com-.:

12).
bridge ished” aia not be
Appropriate... It: is “being

ushed, and: the-media are doing,
me‘ of the’ pushing: The third °
» structitre.

a

paragraph begins “As Lions Gate
_Bridge’s life’ clraws toa close’.

‘The: bridge’s fife: ‘is drawing to a

r close only if, we. decide to close it.
‘Your :. edilorial ‘called . for

creased watér transport.’ I inler=.

‘preted that as’ increy ased mass trans-
port. It was: ‘ar more sensible than
he headline. hee

“A moment’ 5 thought tells every
¢c mmuter that once on the span,

Publisher ...-
Managing Editor .
‘Associate. Editor

“Peter Speck
. Timothy Renshaw: -
Noe! Wright

A matters

Vancouver resident Terry Jacks and other
private citizens who battled for years to, force
government and industry to stop the pollu-
tion that was poisoning our local food chain.

But much remains to be done.

“ Howe Sound’s commercial crab fishery,
closed since June 1989 because of high dioxin
ievels found in fish samples, is still closed.
Because it is cheaper than using less harm-
* ful hydrogen peroxide, the chlorine dioxide-
‘ based method for bleaching pulp continues to
be used in B.C,-and continues to produce.a

host of destructive chemicals that are
released into the environment.

And pulp mill air pollution has yet to be
effectively tackled.

Some strides have been made in the long-
distance race to cut pulp mill pollution in
B. Cc. but we are far from the finish line. -

raffic, moves: s relatively. smoothly

: and. quickly. The restriction
imposed by approaches and the

ancillary sirects causes, most of the
jam. The massive upgrading of the
roads may equal the cost of the

Those who hire consultants gel
the advice they pay for. In the carly

1970s, a similar report dealt with, ae
_new crossing.

’ The ‘politicians decided a cross-
ing. was a plum’ that. would guaran-

tee re-election. The Bennett BOV-. -

“the people and withdrew support.

They were defeated after 20 years
in power, Jack Davis, in spite of

great personal popularity, was

defeated federally.

Mayor Tom Reid of - North
Vancouver, another proponent,
went the same way.The late Ann
Fall, an opponent of the crossing,
was elected to district council.
Those who jump ‘on this apparent

‘bandwagon are in danger of finding. »

themselves’ aboard the same kind of
runaway.

ernment at first welcomed it with wa

_open arms,

Too late, they read the mood of

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heading for

major s

YCOULD be wrong. Oh, no.
Serateh that. Pve never been
Why should I

SHI. this is one af any more ten
uous predictions.

Thin:

Mack Sager and David Mitchell
have a date with destiny. And with
each otter,

No, vot that kind of date. More
like a shootout at high noan,

Yes. | believe that Sager, our
muscular mayor of Greater
Tiddlycove, officially called West
Vancouver, and Mitchell, the
donwy. beaky. brainy member of
the B.C. legislature for West
Vancouver-Garibaldi, are destined
to duke iC out — politically — in
the next twelvemonth or so.

Well. maybe an cightcenmonth,
They will serap for the prize
Mitchell now holds,in the palm of

his hand, His riding.

‘I deduce this through an inex-
orable chain of logic that would
attract ihe admiration of Sherlock
Holmes.

It begins in Matsqui. .

Not. you might say, & very aus-"

Ppicious foundry for a chain of tlogic.:

But pay attention.
The premise here is one that's

_ Sorrowfully made.
Grace McCarthy will be defeat: 7

ed in the Feb. 17 provincial byelec-
tion in that Fraser Valley con-

stituency.

That’s a premise — just short of
a prediction.
“Anda painful one. | admire and
like Mrs.vicCarthy.

I feel especially unguished ”
because I was an carly, perhaps the
earliest, paid commentator to

. enthusiastically urge her to return»

to active politics.
She did. She beat two serious -

‘competitors, Graham Bruce.and |
‘Claude Richmond, for the leader-

ship — which had twice eluded her

‘of the Sociat Credit party.

- Peter Dueck g gallantly resigned
his Matsqui seat. :

Hence the byelection opening ©
for Mrs. McCarthy, while another

seatless party leader. the Liberals’

Gordon Campbell, competes on the

same day forthe riding of
* Vancouver Quilehena.

That would have been a far
more hospitable riding for Mrs.
McCarthy, too. But, you might say, °

’ beggars can’t be choosers.

One of the two opposition par-

- ties would have been left still with-

out a legislature seat.

Now, Matsqui used to be Socred '

country. Rural and religious,
Suburban sprawl! doubtless is

. changing both.

Worse, Mrs. McC is not at the -
top of the charts with olde- -lyme

: Socrecs. =
Spi:cifically of the Bill Vander Q

Zalm persuasion. «
When Vander Zalm got into

. religious wars and then personal

quicksand, McCarthy walked.

And she — the very personifica-
tion of Social Credit; perhaps the °
greatest single builder. of the party
since W.A.C. Bennett ~~ has never .

‘been forgiven by.some Socred stal-

warts. .

She also made a grievous tacti-
cal error when, while politicking
for the party feadership fast fall, she
approached opponent Bruce'and |
suggested he drop out of the race >
and become party president and
leave the leadership to her.

Bruce, candidly or indiscreetly,

fever

Lautens

GARDEN OF BIASES

told the world.

- These days the world tends io” 7
look unkindly on. backroom deals,
cutor uncut.

Mrs. McCarthy’ Ss image, was tar,
_nished — both her integrity and he
‘confidence made suspect, . :

If Grace loses. in Matsqui — an
_she faces a formidabie local |
Liberal, Mike de Jong =
certain thal she will have to:
want to, resign as leader.

She’s all but acknowledge:

» Enter Mark Sager:

There isa real bond between
Grace and our mayor.)

There is real, affection on
sides. edt

And then-interim leader Jac
Weisgerber also urged S Sager to
lake arin at the party leadersh

_ before Mrs. McCarthy ‘committed

Sager would have to get on the
“escalator quickly. if-he nurtur
stich ambitions — which he defil

“But he has’ a substantial bi
through his roies with the Union‘of
B.C. Municipalities‘and with th
Greater Vancouver Regional
District. :

“So whe uld he rin;

West Vancouver-Garibaldi —
‘stretching from'22nd Street wes
_and north, including: Bowen-Islan
Squamish and Whistler? He. ti

“the riding;

Well, tough it spoils
ry: he could yun against Jeremy.
-Dalton in West-Vancouver-"*

- Capilano,.which runs ast from
22nd to the river:

This would’ get ‘around the sticky
point that Mitchell and Sager. have.
a solidly sound MLA-mayor rel
tionship, and like each’ other,

Mitchell intelligently: debunk:
my theory that would have him p
ted against Sager.

He throws ina speculation of
~. his own: that if Grace loses in :
‘Matsqui, not just she but the whol
(not much, these days) Social
Credit Party wit! fold... <:

But our independent-Liberal
MLA also agrees that any collapse
‘of Social Credit wouldn't lead to
coalition by any name of all of the
_ Fight: -of-the-New Democrats force:

A vacuum would remain; of dis-
“gruntled right-wing Socreds*And
also of quirky British Columbians“

" who want 4 made-in-B.C, party

without any "federal ties, =
OK, | could be wrong about. t

Mitchell: Sager: shootout:

The certain thing i is that Matsqui.
is going 10, be watched as never.
before —~ “especially from West :
Vancouver. ~ re