6 — Wednesday, November 23, 1988 - North Shore News

INSIGHTS |

Keep a careful eye now
on how far Brian goes!

I BOUGHT HALF A POUND OF CROW Monday — just
in case. Writing about politics calls for a strong stomach at

the best of times.

Wright’s ‘Tory minority’’
forecast was almost dead on for
the Prairies and B.C. — and for
Atlantic Canada it was generous,
giving the PCs 15 seats instead of
the 12 they got. But not even those
last-minute Saturday polls showing
a sudden four to six per cent Tory
lead suggested that Brian
Mulroney could actually IN-
CREASE his 1984 Quebec seats
and hang on to two-thirds of his
former seats in provincially Liberal
Ontario.

It’s also to be noted that a
straight national referendum
would have killed the trade deal.
Despite the majority by consti-
tuencies, the Tories won only 43
per cent of the popular vote.

That said, it’s my personal opi-
nion that the deal — even though I
didn’t think it could survive — is a
better ‘‘leap of faith’’ for Canada

ALICE HARGREAVES ...youth
guardian.

than throwing away altogether the
chance to explore its possibilities.
The country was built by men and
women who believed that nothing
ventured meant nothing won. But
as negotiations on the details con-
tinue over the next few years, it’s
equally clear that we must keep a
careful eye on how far Brian will
go, if Uncle Sam starts pressing for
more of Canada than the majority
of Canadians are prepared to sell.

At the least sign of any betrayal
of the values we Canadians hold
dear, I'll be the first to man the
barricades.

ete

CIVIC ELECTIONS Saturday saw
the North Shore universe unfold
more or less according to pian. In
West Van, with a recount pending
for the sixth aldermanic scat be-
tween Barrie Clark and Carol
Reynolgs, Mayor Don Lanskail
won his second term, but with a
warning message. Challenger Bert
Fleming’s campaign was invisible
to the naked eye — with neither
lawn sigr.s, ads nor a brochure —
but he stiil received 26 per cent of
the mayoral vote. Meanwhile, the
twin towers referendum brought
no fast relief. The defeat of the
highrise project by a hairbreadth
50.18 per cent fails to give any real
directive to council, which has a
potentially costly lawsuit by the
developer hanging over its (and the
zaxpayer’s!) head.

With 82 per cent of the North

’ Yan District mayoral vote Marilyn

Baker easily won her fourth term
by crushing challenger Peter
Faminow, who DID run an expen-
sive full-scale campaign. Surprise

Reward due

vince was stopped cold at the Burrard Inlet

T HE FEDERAL NDP steamroil across the pro-

bridges Monday when Nerth Shore friends of
free trade returned the two Tory incumbent MPs.

In the provincial context, the solid biue wall is an
anomaly. The majority of the 32 seats went to the
NDP. Ard they grabbed them from the Tories.

With Pat Carney out of the picture and Forests

upset in the election night numbers
was the 5-vote defeat of longtime
Ald. Ernie Crist by newcomer Pat
Bruskiewich. If upheld on a re-
count — and together with the
retirement of Ald. Mary Segal — it
would mean the new District
council, for the first time in a de-
cade, would have not a single left-
teaning member.

tn

SIGN-OFF: New honor for North
Shore ballet choreagrapher Juditt
Marcuse was the world premiere
this month of her latest creation,
“Threncdy’’, at Ottawa’s National
Arts Centre. It’s scheduled to be
taken into the Royal Winnipeg
Ballet’s touring repertoire ... Dan-
cing of a different kind Saturday,
Nov. 26, from 4 to 6 p.m. at West
Van Rec Centre, ‘‘Dance for
Heart” is two hours of in-
vigorating aerobic dancing for
which participants are collecting
pledges to raise funds for the
Heart Foundation, with spot prizes
and a special door prize donated
by artist Daniel Izzard — call
Judith Robitaille, 922-0965, or
Janet Fleming, 926-4505 for info
..«- The Capilano Youth Project,
sponsored by Capilano Communi-
ty Services Society has won the So-
licitor General of Canada Crime
Prevention Award — presented
recently to CCSS executive director
Alice Hargreaves — for an
outstanding contribution by her
and her volunteers to community
crime prevention ... And happy
28th anniversary wishes today,
Nov. 23, to Stong’s boss Bill
Rossum and Karen.

ake
WRIGHT OR WRONG: The per-

son who does you a wrong will
never forgive you.

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: NEWS photo Tom Burley
LIMBERING UP to ‘‘Dance for Heart’’ this Saturday...West Van artists
Daniel Izzard and fitness instructor Betty Latimer.

FOLLOW THROUGH WITH)

YU a OY

Minister Gerry St. Germain chopped dowa by the
NDP, 8.C. presently has two cabinet-experienced Tory
representatives — Fisheries Minister Tom Siddon and
Science Minister Frank Oberle.

While both Capilano-Howe Sound MP Mary Collins
and North Vancouver MP Chuck Cook won easily, the
strong first-tinve-out showing by the Reform Party bit
into their percentages.

The obvious message to Ottawa is that there is
western dissatisfaction even in the safe North Shore
ridings.

Collins has served the House of Commons since
1984. Cook has delivered the Conservative vote in
North Vancouver since 1979. When the time comes for
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to hand out the port-
folios to the successful MP foot soldiers, he would be
politically astute to think hard about passing some of
the rewards on to the seasoned local MPs.

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