4 - Suuday, October 23, 1988 - North Shore News

THE NDP is coming on gangbusters in B.C., by ail reports.
If Brian Mulroney is to be denied his majority, it will be in
the fertile cordillera west of the Rockies, where rain and
acid are still two separate things.

While standing in a good old
West Coast drizzle in Richmond,
Ed Broadbent revealed the main
thrust of his campaign with a
pledge to spend $580 million on
environmental protection.

He knocked the Tories’ ‘‘ruin-
ous environment policies,’’ and, by
implication, the Liberals before
them. ‘Canadians have a passion,
a profound concern for the en-
vironment,’’ said Broadbent.

Really? I doubt that very much.
Canadians, in fact, are pigs when
it comes to the environment. In-
ternationally, Canada has an ap-
palling reputation.

Our government sided with the
whaling industry to the very last
minute, fought the sealing ban
tooth and nail, and continues to
flog nuclear reactors to any tinpot
dictator who will buy one.

So what Broadbent is spouting is
self-serving rhetoric. He’s sucking

up to a fancied image that Cana-
dians have of themselves, which
they do not, by any stretch of the
imagination, deserve to have.

Righteously — and accurately —
enough, Broadbent dumped on
Brian Mulroney for slashing the
staff at Environment Canada,
thereby breaking a 1984 election
promise to beef up environmental
protection.

To pay for the clean-up pro-
gram, the NDP would raise $200
million from special surtaxes and
levies on corporations. Some of
this would be levied directly on
toxic chemical companies and the
like, although the rest of it would .
be from businesses in general
“who are largely responsible for
the current mess.”*

Well, we see the NDP’s ancient
prejudices showing through, even
here, don’t we? Class warfare in
the name of ecology.

‘Booze who’ on the WN. Shore

RECENT CONVICTIONS in
North Shore courts have resulted
in the following fines and penalties
for drinking and driving related
offences.

WEST VANCOUVER: Alan
Philip Ormond, 36, 302-326 West
3rd Street, North VAncouver (im-
paired, $375 fine); Peter John
Wallace, 42, Rural
Halfmoon Bay, Sechelt (impaired,
96 days jail); Allan Dennis
Halldorson, 40, 406-1755 West
14th Ave., Vancouver (impaired,
$450 fine); Mark Norman Dewitt,
19, 106-2931 Mountain Highway,
North Vancouver (impaired, $500
fine, nine month driver’s licence
suspension); William Zaroobea,
64, Bay 36, P.O. Box 1317

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and one year driver’s licence
suspension; dangerous driving, !4
days consecutive jail).

NORTH VANCOUVER: Aneez
Abdul Jaffer, 31, 14-1745 Fell
Ave., North Vancouver (over .08,
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wood Stoddard, 27, 107-120 East
Keith Road, North Vancouver
(impaired, 15 days jail); Jeffrey
Bruce Adams, 32, 365 East 4th St,
North Vancouver (over .08, $700
fine); Gary David Bond, 21, 400-
North Hythe St., Burnaby (over
.08, $350 fine); Fiona Karen
Downey, 26, 3631 Princess Ave.,
North Vancouver (impaired, $300
fine).

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Another $250 million would
come from closing off a tax loop-
hole permitting wealthy investors
to deduct the amount they pay for
borrowing money from their final
tax bill. The remaining $130 mil-
lion would come from the general
tax revenues.

I can’t help noticing that these
last two sources of revenue come
out of the pockets of the rich and
middle class and poor alike, with
no reference in particular to en-
vironmental matters.

Perhaps more significantly,
Broadbent promised to change the
Criminal Code to make polluters,
including top corporate executives,
liable for punishment and im-
prisonment, as they already are in
West Germany, Japan and parts of
the United States.

This is sornething 1 have per-
sonally been advocating since the
late 1960s, by the way. Broadbent
also endorses the idea of an en-
vironmental Bill of Rights so that
individuals can take governments
and polluters to court — another
notion which yours truly has been
urging for 2 long, long time.

Anyway, flawed as it may be, we
at least have a pro-environment
program here, and that is, surely, a
good thing.

Broadbent started the election
campaign by knocking the
“ultimate hypocrisy’? of Mulroney
for coming on strong about the
environment at the last minute,
after failing to do viitually
anything about it during his four
years in office.

This is a peculiar criticism, com-
ing from Ed Broadbent. The truth
of the matter is that ‘‘Honest Ed’’
is no less utterly hypocritical than
Mulroney when it comes to

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death-bed conversions to en-
vironmentali:m.
For those who have heard me

tell this tale before, fast-forward to

the editorial page. Otherwise, I
think you’il find this anecdote in-
structive.

Several years ago, when I was
president of the Greenpeace
organization, Mr. Broadbent
stopped into our office on Fourth
Avenue. We had a very long chat,
at the end of which the NDP lead-
er pledged his undying support for
our efforts to stop the slaughter of
Harp seal pups off the East Coast.

Roughly two months later, !
think it was, this same Mr. Broad-
bent visited Newfoundland, where
he was advised by his supporters
that the NDP had a marginal
chance of winning a federal seat,
but there was no chance at all
unless the NDP came out firmly in
favor of the seal hunt.

Good old un-hypocritical
Honest Ed promptly did a 180-
degree turn, and came out firmly
in favor of the seal hunt.

And he has the gall now to call
Mulroney a hypocrite! Gimme a
break, Ed.

This is the same guy who accuses
John Turner of having one opinion
on Monday, another on Tuesday,
and yet another on Wednesday —
all of which is true enough. But
changing opinions is far from be-
ing the prerogative of merely the
Liberal leader.

Ed blows with the wind too. If
he really understood environmen-
talism, he might start by putting
out his cigar. On this issue, I sim-
ply don’t trust him any more than
the others. He lies, you knowe@

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