- AB - Wednesday, August 17, 1983 - North Shore News .

Dear Editor:

At ‘the’ -Annidal _ General
Meeting of the Lions Gate
Hospital Society
September three resolutions

“lL. That a letter be sent to

noring the fact that the Grow
Freight Rate horts’B.C. in-

dustry; ‘that and the fact that
its elimination will bring on a

major constraction boom.

Two B.C. MP 's have
pate an. awareness of

"s needs. They‘are John |
Fier and Frank Oberle,

both Progressive Con-
servatives. But the rest: in-

Therapeutic Abortion com-
mittee;

“3, That the. hospital not
pay the legal fees of the
members of the LGH
Therapeutic Abortion Com-
mittees who are presently
being sued for authorizing il-
legal abortions.”

On 30 September I. wrote

‘to Mr. John Borthwick, the

Administrator of LGH, re-
questing a copy of Board
monthly meetings and “in-
formation on actions and
correspondence that the

‘Board and Administration

see fit to follow on those

representatives in Ottawa,
are so caught up in partisan
posturing that they can’t see
where our national interests

‘begin and end.

Water transport is cheaper
than land transport; much

. cheaper. Resilt: coastal pro-
winces have a natural cost

advantage over land-locked
provinces. Of course the
farmers: and thé. Wheat

‘Pools-on the Prairies want to

keep their preferential rate
for moying .grain to the
Coast. They are*not worried

hes

cluding all of our NDP.

three motions that I put for-
ward, and were regularly
passed at the AGM of the
Hospital Society held on 1
September, 1982.”

On 22 October Mr. Bor-
thwick replied to my letter
regretting that “the minutes
of. Board monthly. meetings
and medical reports: accor-
ding to the hospital by-laws
are not to be sent out to
members of the Society.” He
further stated: “I waited to
get some direction from the
Board in respect to the ac-
tions arising from your mo-
tions on September 1. At this

about the fact that our B. BC.
industries, exporting ‘forest
products, coal, other

‘mineral products and fer-

tilizers etc., have to make up
the difference. The Crow
Rate is now one-fifth of cost.

It hasn’t changed since 1898!_

Can you blame them?

Solution: abolish the Crow
Rate. Phase out Subsidies to

them ys rode t their at
through ihe Ro

North ‘Vancouver Seymour

time, a committee has been
set up by the Board to review
what should be done concer-
ning the annual meeting in
general and once we hear
from: them I will let: you
know.”

On 14 July I reminded the
Administrator in a letter:
“Nearly nine months have
passed since I received your
letter. In that period I have
received no further com-
munication from you or
from anybody at the
hospital.” In the same letter
I asked two questions: “Has
the committee set up by the

across B.C. to the Coast. Be-
ing more efficient they'll
lower the real cost of moving
grain. Meanwhile we in B.C.
will see $6 billion worth of
construction in the 1980s!

What do our candidates in
the upcoming federal by-
election in Coquitlam have
to say on this subject? Wan-
ting the support of thinking
British Columbians they'll
surely say “the Crow must
go”!

Hon. Jack Davis, M.LL.A.

Board referred to in your let-
ter not yet reported to the
Board? Has the Board taken
no action on those three mo-
tions of mine which were
passed .at the Annual
General Meeting in
September, 1982?”

Now on 3 August, just a
month before 1983’s AGM, I
am still mystified as to the
Board's activities and inten-
tions on the three motions

‘passed by the membership a

year earlier.

I have been a member of
the Hospital Society for
some years; I was an elected
director of the Board for

three years. Presently I feel
helpless as the Administra-
tion appears to be ignoring a
legitimate enquiry of a
Society member in good
standing and delaying for
nearly a year information on
a matter of life and death.

‘Does the Hospital Board and

Administration seriously ex-
pect the community, and in
particular members of the
Society, to believe that
quality service is being pro-
vided to the “whole com-
munity?

E.P. Webb
North Vancouver

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