6 - North Shore News - Wednesday, June 21, 2000

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ORTH Vancouver District’s

call to re-examine the

Cleveland Dam _ ozonation
plant project would appear to be late in
the local water-use game.

The $87-million project to install
the plant adjacent to the North
Vancouver dam has been rolling down
. the pipeline for the past few years. It
was chosen in the wake of debate over
improving local drinking water disin-
fection. Its construction is scheduled to
begin this August.

. The. Greater Vancouver Regional
District. is a j
derail at the best of times. So North
Vancouver District’s action is wishful

at best. But, regardless of the
late hour, North Vancouver is right to
raise the water issue.

“Current ~ GVRD - plans «call . for

juggernaut difficult to...

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into local water quality and dam reha-
bilitation at the Capilano and Seymour
reservoirs. But the value of those pro-
jects is debatable. Especially in light of
a recent GVRD decision to undertake a
long-term and comprehensive cost
benefit study of the entire region’s
water resources.

Vast water supplies to the east — the
Harrison Lake watershed, for example
— dwarf the North Shore’s reservoirs
and fave the capacity to supply the
entire GVRD now and well into the
future. Investment in North Shore
water resources needs to be made in
concert. with an overall plan for water
use throughout the region. Right now
there’s no comprehensive plan.

. Until there is one, an ad hoc
approach to such an important

-resource will be more taxpayer money

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oUKeith’ Roner s (une 14) le letter regardin the 5 pro] osed
estern recreation centre must not go unc allenged.

West Vancouver council held a public mecting on May.
17 to present the plans for the centre. The majority of the
speakers were in favour of council’s plan to move the sec-
tion of Marine Drive abutting the Glencagles golf course

érto' the Upper Levels Highway so that the rec cen-
tre would ‘be ‘on the same side of the road-as the golf
Course and its proposed improved facilities. .
‘This Would concentrate the recreation centre’s various
tinctions and avoid the:dangerous: crossing of Marine
ive from the playing fields'to the ¢ centre - ~~ which would
icularly impact the area's childre

‘The plan‘ did not propose: building houses or condos

golf course as Mr. Bowers alleges. ;.

“The Gleneagles Arca Ratepayers’ Association is a small

‘oup ‘of residents that docs not represent the interests of
¢ area. It is not even registered with the West Vancouver

‘Gleneagles, Eagle Harbour, and the

Whytecliff area.This association far more’ fully represents
he interests of the western part of this district.
We ‘expect. to work closely. with conncil in:order to-
develop. quickly th proposed recreation centre — which
‘sorely needed:: .
Peter: Buitenhuis
West Vancouver.’

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down the drain.

ANYONE with half a brain must
now be clear about who should
become leader of
the new Alliance
party when mem-
bers vote Saturday
— and at a virtual-
ly certain July 8
runoff.
“Should,” we said,
not will. -~
’ Forget, of course,
last-minute John
Stachow, a ponytailed , .

Ontario Hydro worker * :
and, in the three weeks since he entered,

a no-show (if the media‘are to. be trusted) °

at several all-candidate events. For a very
different reason forget also Victoria’s Dr.
Keith Martin who has a wealth of con-
structive ideas on the desperately needed
reform of medicare. Though he has no
chance of winning this time, we'll be
hearing much more of him in the future
if the Alliance lives up to its promise.’
‘The three front-runners — Preston
Manning, Stockwell Day and-Tom ‘Long ~

._~- each have strong pluses and minuses.
To become leader, one of the three: must

win 51% of Saturday's vote. Otherwise
the ewo top scorers will compete in a July
8 runoff vote. Pigs may one day fly, o
course, but my vibes tell me nobody is

- going to win 51% this Saturday.

Long —. Ontario Premier Mike
Harris’ backroom whiz-kid — could |
undoubtedly deliver the badly necded

right-wing Ontario voters with his policy
~ of heavy tax-slashing, smaller government ‘

and. keeping Ottawa out of their bed-"

On the minus dé chalk cup ‘his lack of

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~Manning, he of the’squeaky vdice; poor

any parliamentary experience, accusations
that his telemarketers paid party member-
ship fees for hundreds of Quebccers ~~
they've signed up and,
most serious, failure to
win much support in
the party’s western ,
heartland.
Long is NOT going to
be one of Saturday’s top
two left to slug i it out .
on July 8.
__ Day has. almost every-
“<“thing Long hasn't. ‘The:
+ only bilingual candidate,
he boasts a successful --
‘ provincial governm
track recrd a as Ralph Kicin’s treas'
An Albertan himself, he'can coun
solid share of western support: And alone
of the three he exudes charisma. But sec-
ular Ontarians — who don’t much care
for western policzians anyhow — are
uneasy with his outspoken vicws on gays
and abortion. At the moment onl

and yon :

‘ Saturday’s voting figures will nally i . _ :

just how uneasy... - 2
Which leaves us with Preston.

TV image and 1997 anti-Quebec ads —
all cited by opponents as reasons why, '
after two clections, he “can’t win in ©:
Ontario.”

Wrong.

While personality may have played

- some minor part, the overriding reason

was the splitting of the right-wing vote, .

unilingual, his pluscs then begin to rapid-
ly outstrip those of his two rivals...
He’s the first politician in memory to
successfully create two parties, bringing |.
the first from kischen table groups to Her
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CONDOMS!

~ Majesty’ 's Loyal Opps n
short years, then morphing it against

*. heavy odds into a coalition wi

enough to defeat the Liberals
Neither Day nor Long has an
remotely comparable ¢: ln
political consensus-building vita ‘for thi
Alliance’s health: :
. Nor — despite Day’: s successful ae
in the Alberta cabinct — = has eith

in een a start. it, Feds he’s'¢
strated thie personal co!
ing that define genuine leade!

Uf Preston loses, tlic Alliance; will
up led by a second-best who could
cost it dearly. 02°":

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