‘entation to West JUDGING BY the phone calls J get, you people out there are — if you will pardon the expression — like a lot of chained dogs. At all points of the political front you see enemies in the offing, but you can’t bite them. All you can do is growl, rattle your irons, and run in circles. In fact you could do a lot. You dont bark enough. Barking is a tough business. It’s much easier to ie in front of the old kennel, utter a few throaty growls, and goto - sleep again, convinced that your | masters will not even toss you a bone if you are not well-behaved. Take the way those fools in Ot- tawa have failed to reduce spend- ing in any significant way, with the result that the deficit swells and taxes rise. Come January 1991, they are going to hit you even harder with that national sales tax, and so far all I hear is more deep growling. What can we do? That’s the cry. One thing you could do is to join the crazies. The time has long gone when sweet reason brings any GVRD presents recycling report THE IMPORTANCE of finding markets for recyclable materials was stressed during a recent pres- Vancouver District Council by Toivo Allas of the GVRD. . By MAUBEEN CURTIS “You do not have true recycling until you have the markets and the materials are being recycled. Otherwise, it's just another method of waste disposal,’’ said Allas, who was giving an interim report on the GVRD's recycling study. His presentation was made two weeks after district council decided to respond to local complaints about noise and close down their glass depot on Gordon Avenue. The decision upset local rcecycl- ing enthusiasts who have been pressuring council into acting quickly to set up a curbside pick- up program for glass and cans. But West Vancouver has been - waiting to join in on a coordinated © GVRD plan which will include other Lower Mainland municipalities. “But are we going as fast as we can go?’ wondered Ald. Mark Sager, who was concerned that the pao might not be in effect until Allas said that the GVRD hopes to have some sort of implementa- tion in place by next year Mayor Don Lonskail, who is the chairman of a GVRD recycling sub-committee, stressed that it will be the job of residents to carry out proper separation of recyclables and the municipalities to ensure that a supply is produced that is up to market standards. He agreed that locating the markets for the materials was crucial. “There is no point in sorting this material and then carting it over to the dump,”’ Lanskail said. The GVRD is contemplating a solid waste management plan that could see at least half of the mate- rials that now go towards landfill be redirected towards recycling (20-50 per cent), resource recovery (10 per cent) and incineration (20 per cent) by 1996. Further details will be forthcom- ing with the final report of the GVRD's recycling consultants which is expected in a few weeks. result. By ‘‘crazies,’’ of course, I do not mean crazy-crazy but simple-crazy. And for that, Western Report magazine has pro- vided a lead. Its editors are organizing some- thing called Resolution One, meaning that people —- especially employers — should harass the feds by making life tough for Rev- enue Canada. A kind of guerrilla campaign, in short. Resolution One demands that the federal government “‘shall for- thwith enact a law under which all future increzses in total federal revenue must be exceeded by reductions in overall expenditure until the budget is balanced.”’ In short, spend less, tax less. Failing thaz, it’s war. And Western Report publisher Link Byfield declared war a couple of weeks ago by paying his employees’ payroll tax deductions in a peculiar way. “Instead of sending the usual cheque, we delivered (the) deduc- tions in the form of 1,000 loonies, 700 $2 bills, 935 $5s, 440 $10s and 635 $20s. It took the cashier 45 minutes to count it before she could stamp the receipt. Next week we'll go back to using a cheque, but this one will be written in large letters oF ona four-by-eight sheet of plywood.”” As Dyfi leld pointed out, ‘‘It isn’t hard to imagine the blizzard of memos between Revenue and the Prime Minister’s Office if, on the 10th and 25th of each month, there are suddenly long line-ups of businessmen dragging in plastic bags of $2 bills and sheets of half- inch plywood. “True, it’s a waste of time for the businessmen. But it's an even bigger waste of time for Revenue Canada, and when it makes the local newscast it’s catastrophic for the government. It hammers home a very blunt message: ‘‘Higher taxes stink —— cut spending.’’ Llike it. Such strategy may be funny, but it’s not a joke. Byfield is deadly serious about it, and so are a number of other influential Albertans. Besides, it’s nothing compared with what the students in China have had to put up with. I recommend the plan to North Shore News publisher Peter Speck, and would even help to tote the bags down to Revenue Canada. Reams have been written about the deficit, but it still hasn’t dawn- ed on most Canadians that unless something is done about it we’re going to be another Argentina, Brazil, Mexico or Israel, where they count price increases in the hundreds per cent on account of inflation. Acouple of reminders from Ted Byfield, Link’s old man: ‘When the Trudeau government tock office in 1968, the ac- cumulated debt of all previous governments up to that time stood at $8 billion. This was unprece- dented...but didn’t seem to faze tim. “When Trudeau left us in 1984, the accumulated debt had risen to just over $160 billion.’’ So what did the Tories do? At the end of their first term, it had risen to $352 billion. And it’s still rising. It isn’t only employers who have to be worried about this of course. It’s everyone. 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