6 — Wednesday, May 9, 199) - North Shore News cutting of $16,000. Dear Editor: In your Wednesday, April 18, edition in Bob Hunter’s Eco-Logic column Hunter makes two state- ments about McDonald's restau- rants — and both of them are wrong. . Firstly, he has repeated an er- roneous accusation against McDonald’s restaurants in relation to Amazon rain forests and secondly he has misrepresented McDonald’s relationship to the Earth Day organization. On the rain forest issue, McDonald’s restaurants worldwide have not, and will not, use deef raised on tropical rain forest lands. As he rightly acknowiedged, reinstatement of $1.2 million worth of federal funding for women’s cen- tres across the country is not 2 flip-flop as declared by Capilano-Howe Sound MP and Minister Responsible For The Status of Women Mary Collins, it is, at the very least, a cynical move. The benefit to taxpayers of initially tunding to wemen’s centres across the couniry remains questionable. Locally, the women staffing the North Shore Women’s Centre (NSWC) operated for years much like fiscal breatharians, drawing sparingly on the thin air provided by core annual funding E: LAST week’s announced Since the centre closed April 12 fol- lowing the original announced funding cuts by the federal government, women who might have found support through NicDonald's ] ] Funding flip-flop the NSWC have kad to turn elsewhere. Luckily, a project such as Emily Murphy a resource for women and chiidren in crisis, has been sustained and accepted as a necessary thread binding the fabric of our community. And since the NSWC closure, addi- tional desperate people have had {o turn to Emily Murpt:» House. It is no small irony that the shelter exists thanks to the foresight of the women who founded the NSWC 15 years ago. Hf the transitional funding is a recogni- tion of the constructive role women’s centres play in supporting women, then federal support should be ongoing in the House, form of shared funding with the par- ing fumble. pian ee, responds Canada Ltd. uses only 100 per cent pure Canadian beef. But he is dead wrong in his accusation that McDonald’s Corporation has a connection with the destruction of the Amazon rain forests. Meticu- lous steps are taken to ensure that McDonaid’s suppliers do not sell us any beef which fails to meet our rigidly controlled specifications, including those which support our policy of not using beef grown on tropical rain forest lands. On the Earth Day issue, McDonaid’s Restaurants of Canada Lid. was invited to become a corporate sponsor of Earth Day Canada and we ac- cepted that invitation in the spirit McDonald's Restaurants of of cooperation and mutual desire Canada Ltd. Publisher ........... Peter Speck . a ranee-apesmene on Display Advertising 9800511 | Managing Editor Timothy Renshaw [egg bo eas) Classilied Advertising 86-6220 Associate Editor .... Noel Wright - Distribution 986-1337 Advertising Director Linda Stewart Exaliiantteanstthn(iecfiteemalll Subscriptions 986-1337 North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent Fax 985-3227 ticipation of its provincial and municipal counterparis, not as 2 political stopgap to soothe outrage over an original fund- « to Hunter for positive environmental action with which Nigel Seale and his col- leagues of Earth Day Canada ex- tended the invitation. The Earth Day trayliner Mr. Hunter mentioned was one way in which we helped to create wider public awareness of Earth Day’s goals and objectives. McDonald’s is committed to a long-standing policy of en- vironmental responsibility and our record demonstrates that we are living up to that commitmen:. Please make your readers — and Mr. Hunter — aware of the errors. Arnie Nelson Assistant vice-president McDonald's Restaurants cf suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 111. Paragraph ill of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free - H press Ud. and distributed to every Soar on ine Norn V7M 2H4 re. cond Class Mail Registration Numoer Subscriptions North and West Vancouver, $25 per year 59,170 (average, Mailing tates available on request. Submissions are = Friday & Sunday) welcome but we cannot accept responsibitity lor unsolicited malenal including manuscripts and pictures a which should be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. SDA DIVISION 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C. Wednesday MEMBER North Shore owned and managed Entire contents © 1990 ‘North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. | Is yesterday maybe better than today? SO “YESTERDAY’S MAN’”’ is next in line to run our lives by 1993, if not earlier! Unless, meanwhile, Brian Mulroney learns to walk on water, Canada’s next prime minister has to be Jean Chretien. For practical purposes the Lib- eral leadership race which culmi- nates at the Calgary convention on June 23 — by sombre coincidence, Meech Lake doomsday tov! — is already all over, bar the shouting. The crazy circus routine which picks future Canadian PMs has ai- ready produced nearly 2,000 Chre- tien supporters out of some 4,000 delegates expected to attend. Paul Martin trails with a little over 600, while She'la Copps, Tom Wappel and John Nunziata fight over a paltry 300 or so. At last count there were 334 uncommitted dele- gates, with another 800 odd stil! to ve selected. ‘*Yesterday’s man’’ — the tag attached to Chretien by his rivals in a desperate bid to stem the dele- gate landslide — merely restates recent history. During Truduea’s 1968-1984 reign he held, in turn, virtually every top cabinet post. But so ‘ar from hurting him, the slur that ae’ll bring yesterday’s thinking to today’s rapidly chang- ing problems may be the very key to his success. Unbelievable a short six years ago, “‘yesterday’s’’ top politician added weight to that thought last week. In a Galiup Poll asking who was the better prime minister, Pierre Trudeau outscored Brian Muircaey by 59 per cent to 15 per cent. Some of yesterday’s thinking in Ottawa — despite the damaging finencial policies it spawned — is beginning to look better to more and more people than much of to- day's. In particular, they don’t believe the Trudeau Liberals would ever have aiiowed a Meech Lake crisis to develop to the dangerous flashpoint now threatening to blow Canada apart. Under Chretien, too, they sense it would never have happened. Anglos and Quebecers alike see him as a unifying force at a time when the unity issue dominates all others. His long cabinet track re- cord is, in a personal sense, rela- tively unblemished. And the Grit tradition has always been to alter- nate anglophone and francophone oo Yobun leaders. Whatever we may later discover about ‘‘yesterday’s man’’ as PM, that’s haw Jean Chretien is perceived right now — and why **today’s”’ Paul Martin and Sheila Copps, for all their worthy qualities, will go on languishing in the cellar. In politics perception is always the bottom line. wk POSTSCRIPTS: The loca! caler- dar’s most colorful social event, Saturday’s Military Ball in the Hotel Vancouver, was nore than a duty date this year for one regular head table guest. Among the 10 debutantes, resplendent in long white gowns and gloves, who did their presentation curtsey to Lt.Gov. David Lam and his wife was Sarah Alexia Margaret Wilkins CeNins — watched by a beaming and excited mom, Associate Defence Minister and Capilano MP Mary Collins ... If the doctors’ ‘‘strike”’ costs you your appointment this week, what better way to spend the hour than at Lious Gate Hespital’s Health Fosir, vontinuing through Friday with health care displays and demos of every kind to mark Canada Health Day (also Florence Nightingale’s birthday) on May 12 ... Busier than ever, this Mother’s Day weekend briags you everything you ever wanted ta know about tourism at Park Royal’s big two-day Tourism Fair ... Fun and bargains galore Satur- day, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Waldorf School's Open Howse and May Fair, 2725 St. Christopher’s, North Van ... And hold back on the garden or patio boxes until West Van Kiwanis Cleb’s giant plant sale Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days, at 22nd and Gordon -— all kinds of geraniums, bedding plants, potted mums, herbs, tomato plants, wooden planters and even (for an extra buck) coffee and muffins as you socialize! WRIGHT OR WRONG: Poise is the ability to keep talking while the other guy picks up the check. teers are Vital THANK-YOU CAKE displayed by (left to right) Ryan Schieman, Erin Sackney and Brent. Schieman — three of the North shore neighbourhood House volunteers honored for their work at a recent awards dinner ad- dressed by Mayor Marilyn Baker.