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NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

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‘Chuck Cook loses battle with

cancer on eve of re

NORTH VANCOUVER
Tory MP Chuck Cook died
Tuesday at Lions Gate
Hospital.

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

Cook, 66, was diagnosed with
lung cancer after being admitted
to the hospital about a week ago
for tests.

‘Said Cook's longtime assistant
Monica Nelson, ‘‘He wasn't fecl-

“ing well. He just went in for tests.
He did not know. He went. in
Tuesday (Feb. 16) and they did
exploratory examination on Wed-
nesday. It was serious, and it just
spread very quickly."

Cook announced his decision to
retire from the political fray on
Nov. 30, 1992, ;

At the time he told the News
that he intended to serve out his
current term to 1993. He said that
it was time for a younger man or
woman to represent the riding in
the next federal election.

Said Cook to riding association
members, “After much thought
and soul searching, Dale (his wife)
and J have decided that 14 years
should be enough for anybody
and feel it is time to enter a new
stage of our lives,’*

Be.

tirement

NV MP Chuck Cook. See page
three.

Cook was first elected to federal
office in 1979 as the MP for
North Vancouver-Burnaby.

He had held the North Van-
couver seat since the 1988 federal
election, when the Tories took
both North Shore ridings.

During that four-year period
Cook served as party whip,
parliamentary secretary to the sec-
retary of state for external affairs
and thé president of the treasury
board. Cook also’ chaired two

See Cook page &

COOK A CANDID POLITICIAN:

NORTH VANCOUVER MP
“Chuck. Cook spoke his mind
often, openly and bluntly in the
pages of the North Shore News.

Here arc a few of his quotable
* quorss:
@ On being the only MP from
the three major federal political
parties to vote against the consti-
tutional referendum question:

‘“Y have to face myself in the
mirror every morning. | have to
live with myself -- that’s why |
did it, I'm looking at it from a
B.C. point of view and from a
B.C. paint. of view, this deal
stinks,””

@ On the proposals contained in
the Charlottetown Accord:

“I’m prepared to adinit we've
made a total mess of it. 1 think
it’s up to the next generation of
politicians to try and deal with the
issue again.’”

@ On the Charlottetown Accord
and aboriginal self-government:

“That doesn't mean you swing
the pendulum so far ihe other way
that you’ve got whorehouses zoing
up on Indian lands.”

@.On rumors last year that he
planned to run for the Reform
party in his own riding or MP
Mary Collins’ Capilano-Howe

Sound riding:

“T think it’s great fun. 1 suspect
it's driving Mary up the wall.”’

@ On federal gun control legisla-
tion:

“Anybody who uses a gun in

violence should almost have a life
Sentence — put the real emphasis
and the penalties extremely heavy
on anyone who has got a gun for
less than legitimate purposes.
That’s still not going to stop the
guy who has a gun at home and
wants to shoot his wife, but
there’s nothing that will stop
that.”
@ On the 1990 federal govern-
ment sinking of the $500 million
Polar Class 8 icebreaker contract
that would have provided 1,000
jobs over four years for local
shipyards:

“Any shipwrights I’ve talked
to, I've said. ‘For God sakes,
don't wait for it. Go retrain or
find another job. Don't sit around
waiting. This may never come to
pass." Well it’s not coming to
piss
@ On Michael
federal budget:

“at's the most boring budget
Canada has had in a generation,
But that's good news. The figures
are delightful.”

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Gang line

WEST VANCOUVER Police Const. Janis Maclean and North Vancouver RCMP Const. Dan
Cocnian support the new Gang/Youth Contact Line. The service provides young people on the
North Shore with an anonymous means of providing local police with tips on criminal activity.
Callers can ciso simply ask for help. For rnore information, see story page 2.

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