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EST Vancouver has a golden

opportunity to avoid the road

to ruin. The ruin in this case
would be the municipality’s unique
mountainside character.

And roads are the Key.

{n its 26-page Proposed Roads Policy,
presented to council June 3, the dis-
trict’s Advisory Planning Commission
(APC) has come out four-square behind
character and contour over sterility and
straight lines.

The APC wants to preserve the type
of winding neighborhood streets found
in the ‘municipality’s western Marine
Drive area.

The foul

CANADA, you stink
with hypocrisy.

I wrote that sentence on my
little machine. Then I erased it.
It goes way, way too far. It was
too loose. It was too unfair to
too many. That spoiled any
legitimacy it might claim.

It might have passed muster
if it had read: “Certain
Canadians, largely though not
exclusively in Canada’s ruling
political, cultural, academic, oe
legal, media and union elites. and allowing that
other though fewer members of those same
elites disagree with them, routinely raise the
odor of a double standard on significant and
especially deeply symbolic public issues.”

But then it would have sounded like an edi-
torial — the considered opinion of an institu-
tion —- not a column —— - the considered opinion
of an individual.

So I scrapped that opening sentence. The
Canada and the Canadians I iove don’t deserve
it. i
But listen up, you fork-tongued skunks who
badly mislead my country: for you, it’s sil
there, and it's you I mean.

Consider the election of a new leader of the
National Action Committee of the Status of
Women.

For starters, outgoing president Sunera
Thobani, ethnically Indian (and a dogmatist
who repetled countless people with her clipped,
don’ t-argue-with-me pronunciamientos),
grotesquely imitated Winston Churchill's
imperishably moving “we shall fight them on
the beaches” speech made during the darkest
days of the Second World War,

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It is an area where romance and per-
sonality of place still reside — where
development has fit in with the natural
surroundings so that each complements
the other.

Those characteristics have already
been lost.in newer neighborhoods built
above the Upper Levels, where places of
conspicuous consumption have been
blasted into mountainsides.

Erosion of subtle elegance has gone
hand in hand with erosion of natural
contours and West Vancouver environ-
ment.

The APC also poo-poohed the knee-
jerk installation of sidewalks and glar-

ing street lights, pointing out that crime
statistics in such areas as Caulfeild and
Gleneagles discount the need for. such
modern amenities in every neighbor-
hood.
Among the committee’s recommen-
dations are the prohibition of grid road
designs and the promotion of curves and
varied elevations where topography and
vegetation dictate.

There is more than ever a need for
sensitivity to place in development if the
North Shore is to retain the ingredients
that make it special.

The APC is on the right road. Council
should follow its lead.

reveailees

Furious at food strikers |

Dear Editor:
We are writing to express our
displeasure at the current food dis-
“pute with Safeway and Save-On
Foods, and what this is resulting in,

“not only to the public in general, but ~

especially to those of us who are
f . unemployed and are trying desper-
- ately to find jobs.

To our dismay, we have discov-
ered that nearly all of the “new”
employees at the Lynn Valley IGA
are locked out; employees of
Safeway and Save-On Foods. ©:

This of course, means that these
employees are effectively shutting
out so many of us who truly need to
work, certainly in the Lynn Valley
area, and possibly every other area
of the province.

We have worked in non-union

' environments and can attest to our
‘strong sympathy for workers. in
many situations.
‘However, the. workers for
Safeway and Save-On Foods have
jobs. They also -had the. choice to

receive some strike pay. =. +;
Why,‘ then, are these workers ”
allowed to monopolize jobs to this
extent, especially when jobs. are: 80.)
much in demand?
The ways things are going, it
won't matter to us anyway. ::
“We won't be.in the lineups: at.

"IGA, we'll probably be in the line-. ©
-ups at the food bank, but it won ‘t be

for want of trying. : :
Sue Cook, John, Doran, E.
Menton, M. Shoptir ;

North Vanenuver

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settle, and we assume they also

But in Thobani’s fatuous
version, the enemy wasn't the
bloody Nazi war machine that

confronted Churchill's Britain ©

and would have destroyed a
thousand years of unfolding
liberty; it was those awful
“conservatives” who push
papers around, advocate per-
sonal responsibility, maybe
even attend church, and
meekly try to spend no more
of Canada’s public money
than it takes in. ;

That's a “radical” idea only for the genera-
tion of pompous leftists like Thobani who have
lived exclusively in an atmosphere where
ruinous public debt is the norm, and have soft
jobs demanding more of it while cosily curled
up on the hard-working Canadian’s hide ~——
since NAC naturally expects subsidies from
precisely the kind of “conservative” (i.c., sol-
vent and tax-paying) people it hates. The
Marxist clones and clowns have always inso-
lently expected capitalism to pay for its own
funeral, and our liberal'governments have
cravenly obliged them. |

That Thobani could equate Hitler's
Wehrmacht with Mike Harris’ “common-sense
revolution” and such should have had her audi-
ence rolling in the aisles. But the New Stuffy
Class has no sense of humor, or of history.

But now to serious matters. The NAC presi-
dential election was by all reports the most
openly, baldly, pus-leeching racist event of any
consequence in this country in years. Race, .
race, race was virtually the whole issue; what
little remained was class. Race all but monopo-
lized the politicking.

Thobani — now en Foute to a new job at

7 wha a Bad

garden

signed and ful'y addressed.

UBC _ flatly, asserted that only a “woman of
color” should lead NAC.

And so it came to pass: her successor, a
black Jamaican native, easily beat her white
“middie-ciass” rival, ridiculed by some dele-
gites because of her involvement with that
well-known bunch of lackeys of the white © ;
bourgeoisie, the — wait for it! —- Girl Guides! _

Of course, the aforementioned Canadian.
elites instantly denounced these racists. MPs
elbowed each other aside in haste to castigate
them, The media bayed. There were hints of ..-
prosecution.

Like fun there were.

The Canadian establishment, 1990s style,
gets ina great froth about the spectre of racism
taking over the country only if 16 pale men ~
with straw-colored hair gather ina barnin
Alberta and make Hitler salutes to each other. |

Where the hell is Max Yalden, for years our
national human rights czar and always good for —
a purse-lipped quote about how Canadians are |
failing his tolerance test, when a whole con-
vention-full of radical leftists make openly
racist statements?

Where are the other institutional offense.
checkers?

Easily answered. By and large — with the
qualifications up there near the top of this
piece — these elites are fixated only on small,
selective, readily scapegoated targets, the
selection based on what offends their own left-
ist and progressive prejudices.

There isn’t a (white?) ghost of a chance that
open appeals to race in a mass organization .
ike NAC will get more than a cursory. glance
from the correctness police.

I've run out of space. - :

I had more examples. They'll keep. ‘But this ;

one is a real stinker,