6 — Sunday, September 28, 1997 — North Shore News

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VIEWPOINT

C Transit’s award as North

American System of the Year

last year underscores the sorry
state of public transportation across
the continent.

And for North Shore transit users,
“the system continues to fali well short
of the mark.

The most recent affront to North
Vancouver commuters is the cancella-
__stion. of the No.’ 286: express service
"| that operated at peak hours between

was cancelled.

For many would-be North Shore
commuters, erratic scheduling and a
lack of synchronized connections com-
bine to make a bus trip a time-con-
suming and frustrating experience. So
much so that these very same com- |
muters have no choice but to line up at
Lions Gate Bridge each work morning
at the wheel of their own automobile.
Thus adding to the Lower Mainland’s
growing traffic chaos. The fact that
BC Transit even had a UBC express
bus service is news to most. people.

’ ‘Transit’s, lousy information. network

does little to get the word out.
“Public transportation has always

‘ benefited from a clear vision.

But=BC Transit’s appears to be

obscured by the monoxide haze that
increasingly. ‘enshrouds the Lower. §-
id. "

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DESPITE ail the gobbledygook
we're reading, hearing and seeing
these days about Canada’s unity

_ problem, the answer to it is, in

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led thus far a the News have |

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ived 'y | het defray the legal costs.

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xcerpts from the hundreds of respondents
0 the cause :

-R00 i
n Doug Collins retired and will
‘imiss bis lun, but he bas fought the good fight .

4 and earned his rest. It-is up to all of us to continue
fi olen free speech which dedicated people have
fought for and maintained for so long. It would be

“a betra aya of. future generations if we let it go pithout a
stru,
. mag —A.G, White of West Vancouver

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Fun
— trenshaw@direct.ca

the line, Jean and.
Preston? I'll try to keep
it as simple as possible.
» First of all, The Rest
of Canada (TROC)
must immediately cease
all attempts to a appease
Lucien Boucha
"Quebec 's distinctly
minor percentage of
"hard-core separatists.

They'll never change and all efforts to *

make them are a wicked waste of time -
and energy. Leave St. Lucien and his
wacko disciples to Fant on unheeded by
TROC.

Second, concentrate on communi- .
cating from now on — in the nicest
‘way;—- with Quebec’ 's loyal federalists

: and'the province’s “don’ t-quite-know”

vaters. Between them, according to the

the Quebec clectorate. ' at to tell
them while we're waiting for the next
Quebcc independence referendum (if it
ever comes)? —

:, #5 We love ‘em all, We hate the thought
of. Canada without: Quebec...

@ Protection of the French language,

~ Quebec civil law and all their other spe-
;, cial goodies are theirs to keep forever.

- These are what makes Quebec distinct
(OK, unique if you prefer)—just like all
the other provinces are distinct/unique

' vote as meaning only the

in their.own funny ways. ~
@ All these things are far better pro-.
tected within Canada than they ever
could be by a tiny Quebec, alone ina
sea of 300 million Anglos who'd never
go for French on their
- cornflake boxes: *
Next, what do we ‘do
- if, nevertheless,

Lucien and his lunatic -
'; minoriry, bargeahead °*” :
: and | reepected Quebe

with a new Quebec

independence referen-

sy. TROC endorses :

dam?

the’ referendum: asa.
legitimate exercise in
Quebec, democracy ;
but also annou
the followin, ground rules and‘repeat=
edly makes them crystal clear. toll,

- Quebec voters: .
@ Whatever muzzy, | feel- -good wording

Lucien dreams up as the referendum -
question, TROC will recognize.a-“y
ollowing: “I:
want Quebec to become an indepen
dent nation with no remaining ties

_ latest:polls, they make up some 64% of .: wi

voting decisively.“no” will remain pact a

of Canada, protected as necessary

the Canadian Armed Forces.

@ A land corridor under jurisdiction of
the Canadian Armed Forces will be .;.-
established between Ontario and New
Brunswick.

dent Quebec will re

to assume its share’ of Can on

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“debt as‘at ‘the date of se

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@ Any future treaties or other arrange-.

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