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WHEN I first came to
live in West Vancouver
there were tolls on the
Lions Gate Bridge.

; “You tossed a quarter into
a huge canvas money trap

= #and-no one thought anything

; abou it.
‘ou could get a monthly
pass which ou waved in an -
“Amy hion at the
ee keeper who dutifully
le his forelock and did a
ittle grovel in recognition of
such affluence and i impor-

ea users pay

ben coins or paper monty to
be! had’ and our. Ene and
will’ ec greatly

governmi
The ability to carry cash i in

4 ets offers each of usa:
powerful freedom and calls :

nd-this cash when

brass monkeys slaving away
in the North Peace rough
the bitter winter to bring us
our oil and gas be expected
to subsidize lusury cars each
bearing a single, well-tanned
(no racism implied) oceu-
pant, intent on stuffing his
¢go-prop into the maelstrom
of downtown Vancouver.

ou will say, everyone
will rush to the Second
Narrows to avoid paying
their fair share. Well, put
tolls on that bridge too. It
will all be paid for that much
sooner,

But: “It is part of the
highway system, others will
cry.” Well, so is the
Coquihalla, that triumph of
imaginative development Bill
Bennett gave us at mounting
expense.

This is the argument
raised by pampered civil ser-
vice millionaire pensioners

- and CBC semi-retirees living

in the sylvan paradise of the
Guif Islands with all those
10th-rate authors and animal
painters and Canada Council
recipients.

north shore news

VORMEOINT

They are demanding free
terry service from the rest of
us. Well, the short answer is
that no one asked them, or
you, to set up house across
the water, and, if you don’r
like ir, move out.

It happens all the time.

.Take a drive up to
Barkerville, paying your toll
in memory of Bill and the
boys as you steam up the
grades on the Kamloops-
Kelowna connector.

There used to be 15,000
people living in Barkerville
before it became too expen-
sive and everyone moved
out. I moved to West
Vancouver in the early ‘60s
when I got out of law
school. Believe it or not
there was a desperate short-
age of lawyers in B.C. and
the big firms (some employ-
ing as many as 19 lawyers)
came out tc law school to
recruit us.

With a baby son and .
another on the way I ended
up on (lower) Sentinel Hiil
in a West Van classic three-
bedder with a fuli veranda

ving

and a view down to First
Narrows.

The house cost $14,000
— $1,500 down and we'll
grow old together. Those
really were the days.

As we were moving in I
met a real West Vanner, my
new neighbor Mr. Ward.

He said to me, “How do
you like it on this side of the
water?”

“It’s great!” I replied.
“ve been here six years now
and registered as a Canadian
citizen last year.”

“F mean in West
Vancouver!” he said.

T used to walk down 1] th
and catch the Blue Bus at
Ambleside to go downtown
to work. I was often picked
up by Kindly strangers on wet
and even dry days and given
a lift into cown.

I would take the kids
down to Ambieside. I played
cricket there for the UBC
Occasionals against West
Van, under the benign gaze
of the late great Len Norris,
sketch-book in hand.

I thought I lived in heav-

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llis vents cashless concerns

on what we want, without
anyone knowing.
This is a freedom and a pri-

 vacy of substantial importance,
~. yet few of us ever think of it.
. And once we become cashless,

it will be too late to think of it.

‘In the cashless society there

will be a record of what you
have, how you spend it, where
you spend it, what you spend
it on, everything.

There will be no way io
function (in any significant
wy) outside the formai big

banking system.

“Our esteemed banks will
have monopoly control of our
finances and everything we
do,“ every transaction we
make, every purchase, every

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exchange, they will be getting
a piece of it. This cashless soci-
ety and the financial monop-
oly the banks’ will have is a
crushing blow to free enter-
prise, for it takes the medium
of exchange (money) and
Jocks it into a prison that is
neither free, private, nor
democratic.

And if you don’t think
advertisers and the govern-
ment will have access to this
information, think again.

When did we decide to
give the total central of
money away to these people?

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We didn’t, but here we go los-
ing just a little more of our
democratic rights, our free-
dom and our privacy.

Dallas Collis

North Vancouver

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en and if it cost me the price
of a bottle of beer (yes, 25
cents) to take the car over to
town, it was well worth it.

So stop snivelling about
tolls and press for a proper
solution such as the tunnel
proposed 30 years ago by
Warnett Kennedy.

Don’t settle for the re-
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