INSIGHTS 14 3 Wee GOOD SHOW! ty New LAWN FURNITURE HAS A@RIVED. SUST WHAT INEED FOR THIS UNSEASONAL WESTCOAST WERTHER... mn Underground threat WS that North Vancouver District has joined the hunt for residential underground storage tanks (RUSTs) will be welcomed by all those who care about the North Shore’s fragile creek and ground water environment. RUSTs, installed in thousands of lots on the North Shore and around the Lower Mainland from 1945 to the early 1960s, were cheap containers for home heating fuel that were out of sight and out of mind. But their installation was short-sighted and the environmental bill for that short- sightedness has come due. The steel tanks have a2 maximum lifespan of 25 years; after that time they begin to rot. Most RUSTs sit unused or abandoned because North Shore homeowners have largeiy replaced oil-burning furnaces with natural gas-burning furnaces. “*They’ve already carried outhouse in for us." Shelley Carey, a Capilano Col- an need. munity services such caregivers But most RUSTs stil] contain portions of unused heating oil; and most will release that oil in the surrounding en- vironment as they disintegrate. Last year in West Vancouver 750 RUSTs were identified by students working for the Operation Oit Tank project; 87% of those tanks contained amounts of oil ranging from five to 250 gallons. Seepage of even a small amount of the oii can contaminate large areas of ground wats; and fish-bear- ing creeks. RUSTs are one of the leading causes of focal creek pollution. There are an estimated 10,000 RUSTs in North Van- couver District. Their combined potential for environmental damage is massive. Residents can help minimize that dam- age by reporting RUSTs and getting in- volved with the Operation Oif Tank pro- gram. Lottery cards, after she recently won a car. “Here's the head of MacMillan lege outdoor recreation manage- ment student who organized a trip for local seniors with Hamas to Whistler, on Hama versatility. “I know that it’s difficult to talk about the person you know who is no longer the person you know.** North Shore Health’s Nancy Hall, on urging people who look after Alzheimer’s suffers in their homes to get involved in a study “‘Lynn Canyon is tocally known and it’s just part of our tanguage around here. Jack Davis Park! It’s just a cheap election ploy.” North Vancouver District Ald. Janice Harris, on a suggestion by North Vancouver-Seymour Socred John Parks to rename Lynn Can- yon Park as Jack Davis Park. “¥ go crazy when I scratch." Gloria Muzzin, on her en- Instant Bloedel in his environmental jacket saying they’re protecting the environment. Why don’t they show him in his $2,000 suit stand- ing in front of his pulp mili?” Environmentalist Terry Jacks, criticizing a recent television commercial in which MacMillan Bloedel chairman Ray Smith outlines what the company is do- ing to help protect the environ- that would determine the com- thusiasm for Publisher ._ . Managing Editor Associate Editer Advertising Director Linda Stewart Comptrotler .. Doug Foot North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and quatied under Schedule 111, Patagtaph III of ihe Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lid and distributed to every door on the Narth Shore Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885 Subscriptions North and West Vancouver, $25 per year, Mailing rates avatlable on request Submissions are welcome but we cannot accept responsibility for unsolicited material mcluding manuscnpts and pictures which should be accompamed by a stamped. addressed envelope. Peter Speck Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Newsroom V7M 2H4 scratching Display Advertising Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Ctassified Advertising 986-6222 1139 Lonsdale Avenue. North Vancouver, B.C. mene, 986-1337 986-1337 Distribution Subscriptions Fax 985-3227 Administration 985-2131 MEMBER 980-0571 985-2131 SUNDAY - WRONESDAY + FRIDAY SDA DIVISION 61,582 (average circulation, Wednesday. Friday & Sunday) Entire contents ‘© 1991 Worth Shore Free Press Lid. All rights reserved. Ina recent Financial Post arti- cle Professor Scott puts forward a simple, crystal-clear analysis of Parizeau’s and Bouchard’s goal — unilateral independence in de- fiance of the Canadian govern- ment, It would be treason, he says, and if it happened, it should be resisted with whatever force nec- essary. The Constitution, Scott points out, does allow of an amendment enabling a province to separate legally. But ONLY if one vital fact — so far largely ignored — is accepted: the supremacy of the House of Commons representing the Canadian people as a whole. In short, and regardless of any amendment formula worked out, there can be no legal separation without the consent of the Com- mons and the legislatures of a cer- tain number of provinces. As a sovereign state, he reminds us, Canada is an integral whole. Every part of it belongs to ALL of its people. Provincial bound- aries within Canada have no legal meaning of their own. They exist only for practical purposes and soicly by right of the law of Canada. Nor, he adds, can there be any double standard about carving up the nation. If Canada is divisible, so is Quebec, and vice versa. An independent Quebec would thus have no claim to its vast nor- thland with the James Bay power project — never part of New France but added to the province in $898 and 1912 by the Canadian Parliament. The bottom line is that Quebec can leave only with Canada’s permission. Otherwise, Scott declares, the duty of the Canadian Parliament and government is to defend Canada’s Constitution, laws and territorial integrity against enemies, foreign or domestic, who attempt to over- throw the Canadian state any- where in Canada. Use of force against criminal rebels he calls ‘‘simply legitimate self-defence,’ and the responsibil- ity for it would be THEIRS. Shocking as the good pro- fessor’s views may be to some, all he’s saying is this: Canada cannot meekly submit to being destroyed by a single political group in a single province. Or do you think it should? Food for thought, as Canada’s Canada’s right to use force halt rebellion Lucien Bouchard must obviously have some high-priced legal help advising them. They might benefit from adding McGill University law professor Stephen Scott. 0 Noel Wright Bie Bikes HITHER AND YON 124th birthday approaches. DOG DAYS AHEAD bring the traditional pre-Canada Day flurry of activity, after which B.C. departs, in body or spirit, on vacation for two months. Thus ... North Van Chamber of Com- merce’s lunchtime a.g.m. Thurs- day saw its new 1991-92 president Bruce Young sworn in by Mayor Murray Dykeman, along with prez-elect Vaicrie Young, vecpces Naomi Yamamoto and John Lakes, treasurer Bill Heese and past-prez Bill Perrault ... Other Chamber exec members are Deb- bie Tardiff, Bob Chambers and Janet Morris ... More free Cen- tennial Theatre Fotkfest shows at 8 p.m. tonight and Monday feature dancers and music repre- senting all corners of the globe from Scotland and Hungary to Japan and Polynesia (and yes, even North Van!) ... Meanwhile the Folkfest Craft Fair continues from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily until next Saturday at the North Van City complex, 14th and Lonsdale ... Deadline for yet-to- decide entrants in Gertie Todd's 40th Miss North Shore Pageant is next Friday, June 28 — cai! 985- 0555 ... And happy birthday to- day, June 23, to North Van‘s Margit Holicza. WRIGHT OR WRONG: Experi- * ence is what you get when you don’t get what you wanted.