Friday, May 27, 1988 - _ North Shore News IMPAD ED DRIVING A conviction can cost: Your licence, your| insurance, Know your rights call DID YOU know that Pat Carney: hears voices and has vi- slons?. She does, even though she's no Joan of Arc. And one of the visions she has is that Vancouver will become an: -’* Asiatic city, complete with Chinese street’ ‘signs, just lke | i: Hong Kong and Singapore. / ce P'm not making this up.\Your,; Tory Treasury, Board president and member for Vancouver Centre has. been talking to 4 neighborhood “newspaper about the city’ s great future. 2 - As reported in the Western . News; Carney state: ‘to make up their minds. Do they want to become a major city like Hong Kong, Tokyo, or Singapore, or stay a former’ sawmilling town with‘a small-town mentality? cording to Pat. For one thing, bi ~ ing overrun will be. good for us'on account of how “‘rich and © : educated’’; these hordes are: is Carney, n have 10 be treated ‘Wit _ 2 ,Do, they? Silly. of them, ain’tit! = Why can’t they comprehend: that: Carney, the Tory party, and all - those other MPs know what’ 5 best a for them?., There’s no mention i in'the 7 Western News story. that she has: ; se the slightest intention of listening - . ver-have to what her constituents are telling. her. Mother knows best, all: right. ~ Just like all the other in/that sell- the-country-to-the-highest- -bidder .. bunch of politicians f ours. (In- cludi B the | Socreds f course.) She obvi usly can't understand ; why the peasants don't like what's instore for ‘them.-What peasant in his right mind wouldn’t like.to be, © in ‘a Hong Kong, a Singapore or ae __ing town with a small-town men- Kong league, with wall-to-wall - “cians tocalm these fears."" ! the lads down at Pacific Press rais- ~ ing any alarm.-They wouldn't 986- BGOO™ “bet my last dram that Vane ‘ couverites would prefer to be the. - inhabitants of a former saw mill Govemment of Canada tality than be elevated to the Hong people and Chinese street signs. Silly of them; though..." “| have lived most of my life in Zo Point Grey and I understand how’. |~: people fear losing their family Jean J. Charest | homes, their gardens, and being shut out of their city...;"" she i is. quoted as saying. What's to be done about in - Nothing, apparently. Carney' s. answer to local concerns is that it~ is up to.'the media and the politi- P Well; we needn't worry about complain if the whole damned _ province, were taken over by Burundi and Uganda. They would ; -. be too stunned to even notice what: ‘ was happening? : -As for the politicians, this § their Grand Design for the whole | 8 - country. /Carncy's loose lip has let the cat - out of the bag.’Anyone who can’t | cad her message has to be blind.) The reality,"! she states happi. ly, “lies in accepting that Va a couver is a changing city.’ _ Yes. But who created that : Minister of State i. Youth versity. jo work k with. a wide range, of : Gouverment du Canada : Ministre gEtata la Jeunesse Jean J. Charest * pupil. 2s someone -