26 - Sunday, October 25, 1992 ~ North Shore News

We will let this huge and =
rich country come undone |

ALL ALONG I’ve said to myself, ‘‘That*s not
in your job description, sweetie, you’re sup-
posed to be lending an ear to the elderly and
translating their interesting input into a design
for a becoming and fruitful cld age. You’re
not here for the politics.”’

But the. overwhelming
concern right now, the po-
larization of Yes and No
views of the new constitu-
tion, isn’t a political thing,
I think. It’s where we live,
and it’s down deep.

It’s very much involved
with our conception of
ourselves as Canadians and
with our own very personal
contributions to and affec-
tion for the place called
Canada. —

It also has a lot of bear-
ing on our country’s future
in a world that assesses us
as quiet, reliable, sturdily
productive, if somewhat
. boring, but to be envied.

Though home ‘to a stag-
gering varicty of people we

have shown the world we
can still manage to live
Simply. and optimistically
and together.

Right from the start, I
declared myself opposed to
this document. Loud asser-

‘tions of the fractures that
wouid follow, of the loss of
the world’s esteem, of the

collapse. of our dollar, of:

the slipping away of jobs
and international trade, all
of this failed to. shake my
resolve..

I laughed when Mr.
- Mulroney sat down to pluck

~~ at our heart-strings as he

recited attendant catastro-
phes’ that would follow our
oe rejection, of. all he. chad. done

“ee for: us. *

I -read all that both sides
had ‘to contribute, so as to
‘be’ fair,. and watched ‘their
. eyes and their hands when
- they spoke on the television,

_ trying > to: ‘establish that i
was right.

I’ve never felt Quebec to
be a bogeyman. Au con-
traire,. that French presence
gives us a filip, an extra
dimension, that helps to
ameliorate our less than
jazzy image in the world.

I regret the schism that

Nancy Cox

Eleanor
Godley

THE VINTAGE YEARS

keeps their music from us
and that exacerbates some
cranky hangovers from our

shared past. But I admit [°

heat up under the collar like
the rest of the West when
evidence of their favored-
nation status with Ottawa is
frequently revealed.

It’s our basic feelings of
what constitutes fair play
that get in the way of
possible camaraderie be-
tween us. That 25-seat deal

in perpetuity, that’s a tough -

one to swallow.

But even with that stuck:

in my throat, John Fraser,
Speaker of the House of
Commons, has turned me
about face. He didn’t use
trade and commerce to get
my attention.

“How would we square it
with our. pioneers?,’’. -he
asked instead. ‘‘What will
we be able to say to the
Serbs and the Azerbaijans
and the Czechs and the

South Africans, people who’

are in real trouble, beside
which ours pales?’’

Here are we, with this
huge various rich «and for-
tunate country, unique in
the world, the envy of all,
actually seriously consider-
ing letting it come undone,
by our own hand, slashing
at its roots!

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No amount of righteous
rationalization can change
the fact that we have the
chance to show the world
we’re capable of unity,
though it cost us our stiff
necks and lofty stances.

Compromise, said Mr.
Speaker. It’s not a dirty
word. It means everyone
gives up a little bit in order
to accommodate the greater
good. The greater good -is
the feeling we'll all have
that the game was worth the
candle.

Good faith, instead of
recriminations. . Union,
though our views are
discrepant. Obligation
discharged, to ourselves,
who are basically non-warr-
ing optimists, and to a
world that badly needs re-
assurance that stability is
possible and preferable.

We’re 125 years into this
marriage. It isn’t seemly
that we should now declare
irrevocable differences and
take up separate domiciles.
What would the neighbors
think? And how in the
world would we ever
satisfactorily divide the
booty?

What we have is what
we've had together; our
paths are purposeless and
confused without the
other’s presence and par-
ticipation.”

We are the elders, you
and [. Canada is ours,
warts and all, and we sure
as hell don’t want to see it
fragment under our very
feet.

Let’s say clearly and
loudly, ‘‘Yes,”’ and then get
down to fixing it. Without

politicians. Without threats _

of divorce and disaster. We
have a chance to make an

informed basis for the best.

constitution the world has
ever seen, to be a model
forever. |

But we must build it from
the heart, from proven
purpose, openly, not for the
aggrandizement of public
personages but for us to live
by. Make a big Yes on
behalf of us all.

Bringing Quality
to Life.
North
Shore
Family
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NOTICE OF PROPOSED EXTENSION OF
BOUNDARIES PURSUANT TO SECTION 22 OF THE
MUNICIPAL ACT

The Council for the District of North Vancouver intends
to petition the Minister of Municipal Affairs, Recreation and
Housing to request the extension of the area of the
municipality to include the area, not in a municipality,
identified on the map and described as. follows:

Lands located north of the District of North Vancouver and
bounded on the east by Indian Arm and Indian- ‘River,
including Croker Island, on the north by the northern
boundary of the Greater Vancouver Regional District and
on the west by a projection of the boundary between the’ -
District of North Vancouver and the _ District of West
Vancouver. ;

PROPOSED BOUNDARY EXTENSION

Burard

Jo District electors -
The Council may, or shall, on receipt of the request of not

less than 10% (approx. 5,000) in number of the electors
received within 30 days (Dec. 3) of the last publication of
the notice, submit the question of the proposed extension
to the electors for assent.

To Proposed Annexation Area ‘Residents

Electors within the proposed annexation area who-object to
the inclusion of their property within the Municipality may
notify the Minister of Municipal Affairs, Recreation and
Housing, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C. V8V 1X4, who
may direct that the question of including the area in the
municipality be submitted to those entitled to vote.

WE WOULD LIKE YOUR INPUT
Council would like to invite your comments on proposed goals and
objectives which are being considered as a basis for development
of the 1993 Municipal Budget.

Watch for more information on these objectives and ways you can
participate — including a Meeting in Council Chambers on

November 2 at 7 p.m.

Colleen G. Rohde
Municipal Clerk

Call 987-7131 for more information.