Ad - Friday, August 31, 1984 - North Shore News

Residents hit Lynnmour plans

A SMALL delegation

from the Lynnmour

Residents Association appeared before North Van-
couver District Council Monday to address sen-
Sitive issues relevant to their community.

Acting as spokesman for
the group, Pat Neufeld read
a brief to the mayor and
council outlining their con-
cerns over development in the

Vote in anger

Lynnmour area.

According to the brief,
residents were strongly op-
posed to any additional
multi-family units in Lynn-

mour. It also gave sugges-
tions for improvements in the
operation of the Premier
Street Landfill and objected
to proposed housing expan-
sion north of the cemetery.
Regarding the landfill con-
cern, the paper said that the
implementation of an_ ex-
panded recycling program

Strictly personal

by Bob Hunter

REMEMBER, with fondness, the brief regime
of Joe Clark. He was sort of like John Paul I,

the ‘‘September Pope.”’

We hardly got to know

him, did we? There he was. And then he was gone.

As it turns out, Clark’s
disastrous decision to call an
election after a merely
technical defeat in the House,
was almost sensible politics
compared to John Turner’s
clumsy grab for the golden
ring.

Joe Clark’s brief stint in
power made an impression
on me as a Canadian for the
simple reason that for the
first time in most of my adult
life, 1 felt like I was a part of
the country, not just a poor

cousin living in a satellite
state.
lf the Liberals deserve

punishing for nothing else,
they deserve it for betraying:
the ideal of--Gonfederation
time and time again.

The truth is, Canada has a
system that is defined as
federal but has strongly built-
in centralist tendencies. All
the new constitution did was
entrench anOttawa-based im-
perialism, replacing an an-

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cient Westminster-based
imperialism.
Ottawa has constantly

tned, as George Woodcock
notes, ‘‘to recreate on Cana-
dian soil a replica of the
unlamented British Empire.”’
The very thing that makes
this country worth loving is
the regional spirit of defiance
which has cemented Cana-
dian politics into the mould
of an eternal battle between
federai and provincial forces.

It is, like most things, an
accident of history. The ill-
written British North
America Act was so lamely
constructed that it in-
advertently left the provinces
free to tack in the lee of Ot-
tawa, as it were.

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ing of court decisions, and
he flywheel of regional am-

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In strict terms, British Col-
umbia, for instance, is a fief-
dom within an empire. Yes,
an empire! People who
don’t recognize that in ter-
ritorial terms Canada is ac-
tually the second most suc-
cessful imperial power in the
world-after Russia-astonish
me.

Of course, size isn’t the
issue. Our real glory is that
we are free to enjoy two iden-
tities — our regional and then
our federal status. To be able
to vote to send people to not
one but two distinct, in-
dependent legislatures — ina
world where most people
don’t even get half a vote —

is a blessing, absolutely.
It was all the more
treasonable, therefore, that

the Liberals were content to
rule from the bastions of On-
tario and Quebec,
dominating the rest of the
country by force majeure,
riding roughshod over
regional wisdom. Hey, the
natives do know best!

This brings me back to Joe
Clark. Suddenly, after
decades, 11 seemed, of being

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would be beneficial and sug-
gested that any required
educational program could
‘*be based on a small tax levy
built into our taxes, i.e. $1 to
$2 per household.’’

The brief also recommend-
ed a charge for all vehicles us-
ing the site.

Residential expansion

unable to approach the
Liberal barons in Ottawa ex-
cept on bended knee, chut-
ching whatever coin you in-
tended to drop in the collec-
tion plate, it was possible to
get the ear of someone in

government.
And be treated lke a
citizen, rather than a poten-

ual rebel colonist.

Joe opened the window
facing West. It was like a
breath of sunhght, to coin a
phrase. Tories were seeking
inputs from a host of dif-
ferent far Westerners. And,
gee, that felt good.

Then, boom, the roof fell
in. Keith Davey was back in
power. We were out in the
cold as per usual.

So far, this election is mak-
ing me feel really good about
Canada again. 1 mean, we
were involved in nothing less

than an unapprehended in- ~

surrection. Under almost any
other system, we’d have had
to shoot the rascals to get rid
of them.

But let’s not lose perspec-
tive. In a revolution — and
we are nearing the climax of
one — there can be no half
measures. The despots have
to be swept completely from
the board.

The historic task before us,
folks, isn’t just to defeat the
Liberals, it is, to depose,
humiliate and exile thermm—Iq
scatter salt on the ruins of
their campaign offices. To
melt the last Trudeau statue
down into dung.

1 mean every word of it. Go
forth. Vote in anger.

order in for

north of the cemetery, where
the Association understands
the District plans to establish
about 2,000 residences,
would lead to increased traf-
fic and urged Council to con-
sider other more suitable
areas for development,
though the brief maintained
that the natural boundaries

of Seymour River and Lynn
Creek inhibit further expan-
sion in Lynnmour.

In closing, Neufeld urged
regular and scheduled con-
sultation with the Associa-
tion and with the Lynnmour
Community School Council
in future District dealings
with proposals for their area.

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