on eee 6 - Sunday, July 29, 1990 - North Shore News lt YOUR OWN FAULT! GETTING INTO A SAIT AND THRONNG OUT ALL YOUR SUMMER CLOTHES DIRIND Ship shaft attitude toward the ailing West Coast shipbuilding industry is two-faced at best. Provincial Minister of Regional and Economic Development Stan Hagen unveiled a report Tuesday from the Shipbuilding Action Group seeking fi- nancial assistance from the federal gov- ernment to help stabilize West Coast shipbuilding. The report from the group, which was formed in March by shipyards and their unions following the federal govern- ment’s cancellation of the $680 million Polar Class 8 icebreaker contract, de- mands a more equitable share of gov- ernment shipbuilding contracts. Apart from the $680 million, cancellation of the Polar 8 cost local shipbuilders approximately 750 jobs and left B.C. wiih none of the federal gov- Ts PROVINCIAL government’s ernment’s $9.5 billion worth of ship- building contracts. The Shipbuilding Action Group report consequently accepts that the ship- building industry is shrinking and that a shared job loss will have to be absorbed locally. But while Hagen left for Ottawa to deliver B.C.’s appeal for shipbuilding equity, the provincial government an- nounced that it had purchased a 12- year-old ferry from Norway rather than have one built locally. And before he left, Hagen said he could not promise that the crown-owned B.C. Ferry Corp. would build its two 470-car superferries in B.C. B.C.’s once proud shipbuilding in- dustry must do more than survive ineq- uitable treatment from the federal gov- ernment, it must survive the contradic- tory actions ef the B.C. government. “You can’t legislate intelligence.”’ Mike Jobson of Portland, Oregon, responding to an Inquir- ing Reporter question seeking solutions to the increasing number of accidents at Lynn Canyon Park. “This is natural selection in ac- tion. The dumbest people will do the dumbest things. That way, they won't breed and have more dumb kids.» Steve Roddy of Los Angeles, California, commenting on the growing number of accidents and fatalities at Lynn Canyon Park. “It’s a pristine medieval forest. How anyone in their right mind, Publisher Associate Editor envelope Peter Speck Managing Editor Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Advertising Director Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent Suburban newspaper and auatihed under Schedute 111, 4139 Lonsdale Avenue. 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MEMBER Why govt give in to can never bullies OUR NATIVE Indian fellow citizens, with many of whose grievances I sympathize, are blowing it — by allowing their hotheads to destroy within weeks a newly won fund of public support. it was won thanks largely to Manitoba MLA Elijah Harper. Working entirely by the white man’s rules, he was a key player in the eleventh-hour defeat of the Meech Lake Accord — a measure opposed by a majority of ALL Canadians. He left most Canadians outside Quebec indebted to himself and his race, thus providing native In- dians everywhere in Canada with a strong new bargaining tool for furthering their own claims. Public appreciation last month held out fresh hope of progress with those claims. But just as quickly all this has been put at risk by the gun-toting Mohawks in Oka, barriers on Montreal's Mercier Bridge and B.C.’s Indian road blocks. We're not talking here about the inexcusable slowness of federal and provincial governments in dealing with aboriginal rights. We are talking purely and simply about the realities of governing — for ANY form of government. However just its opponents’ cause, No government can ultimately survive by allowing its laws to be flouted or by sur- rendering its authority in face of intimidation or blackmail. Dic- tatorships have no problem, of course, in handling such situa- tions. For them the solution from Day One is tear gas and tanks. For democratic governments things are a good deal more com- plicated. They rule by consent of the majority — which judges them, in part, by their treatment of legitimate minorities. So when a minority resorts to law-breaking to further its cause, patience and efforts at peaceful negotiation — like those we've watched in the past two weeks — must be the first response, main- tained for as long as possible. But if defiance of the law con- tinues or escalates, the bottom line is the same for EVERY govern- ment. Eventually it must win the confrontation. Eventually, blackmail and crim- inal acts must be ended by whatever means are needed. Otherwise, government abandons DANIEL Izzard ...hometown ex- hibit. its duty to the majority and capit- ulates to the law-breakers. At the end of THAT road stands the man with the bomb. This unhappy stage now seems to be looming in Oka, on the Mercier Bridge and at B.C. road blocks. The pity of it being the goodwill lost on every side if Ot- tawa and the provinces at last decide it’s time for push to become shove. Many Canadians have a very genuine sympathy today towards the native cause. But when the “‘warriors’’ of Oka took to arms and ultimatums, the issue ceased to be aboriginal rights and land claims. It became the way we all — aborginals and non-aboriginals alike — must live and resolve dif- ferences in a civilized society that rejects bullies with guns. Until THAT issue is settled, nothing else can be. kee WRAP-UP: Busy months ahead for West Van Ald. Mark Sager, just embarking on a promising ca- reer, who tied the knot yesterday with Kathryn Balmer at West Van United Church. He’s also the only known aspirant to date for the mayor’s chair at the November elections ... Works by interna- tionally renowned artist Daniel Iz- zard of West Van go on display from this Tuesday, July 31, until Aug. 12 at the Ambleside Ferry Building, foot of 14th Street ... Congrats today, July 29, to four North Van ‘‘Diamond Clubbers”’ — Rowland and Jean Astbury (their 64th anniversary) and Steve and Toni Stogran (their 62nd) ... Also today, happy anniversary to North Van’s Ken and Beth Robin- son... And the same again Tues- day, July 31 — in silver! — to North Van's Gordon and Georgina Scott who celebrate their 25th. nen WRIGHT OR WRONG: If you’re too busy to worry during the day and too sleepy to worry at night, you’re in darn good shape! MARK Sagper ...busy, busy groom