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Canach Post Canxtan Publications Mail Sales Product Agmement No. Entire contents © 1966 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All tights reserved. ORE % CANADIAN AIRLINES COMES UP WITH A BAILOUT PLAN oH LPRes 48 UGIES & “The NDP seem to have the feeling that everybody in West “Vancouver is a millionaire.” ',, Former attorney general Russ Fraser, on NDP attitudes towards .. West Vancouver. (From a Nov. 15 North Shove News s story. 4 ‘aaa We i renga we have a pretty |. big challenge with Mother Wature out there.” | : ’ Ministry of ‘Transportation spokesnian Brenda Jones, on the lat- “Vest-slide to hir the Sea-to-Sky- , Highway and the challenge. faced by her department in maintaining that. stretch of highway. (From a Nov, 15 North Shore News story a ) , “a fs) Q “We are absolutely shocked, This makes no economic sense whatsoever,” West Varicouver: Mayor Mark * Sager, on the NDP; ‘government's announced closure.of the West Vancouver courthouse. (From a Nov, I 5 North Shore News story.) 30 QO “The savings. were a total illu- sion.” Former B.C. attorney general . Allan Williams, reacting to the announced closure of the West Vancouver provincial courthouse, on previous discussions about eliminat- ing the facility back in the early 1980s. (From a Nov. 15 North Shore News story.) ! “They need some people in local government who are going to do something for the people who _.,are already here, instead of bring- ‘ing in'more people all the time.” North Vancouver resident Maureen Mukanik, tothe Nov. 15 North Shore News Inquiring Reporter question, “Did your departing municipal council do a . good job?” O00 “You see it in the guys more. Yney get to be kind of meat- heads.” : Female powerlifter MJ Feniak, on’ the use of steroids in the upper eche- lons of the powerlifting sport. (From a Nov. 13 Nurth Shore News sports ” story.) O00 “I don’t think we should legis- late businesses out of business.” West Vancouver Coun. Rod Day, ’ on the need to push for a more grad- ual non-smoking transition for pubs and cabarets in West Vancouver.“ (From a Nov. 13 North Shore News story.) QaQ | “I'd rather be Biscally. responsi- bic than a teacher’s North Vancouver District 44 "- school board candidate Tim Morrison, who received a C- froma * teachers union group grading prospective school board candidates, on receiving a failing grade from teachers, (Foon a Nov, 10 Novth Store News story.) ae is cust a Aisne tan wae 3 IF you think immigration hassles and political correctness are unique to Canada, meet Pauline Hanson of Ipswich. That’s Ipswich in Queensland, Australia — whose political leaders she has single-handedly reduced to a tizzy for the past few months. Ms. Hanson — a single mother and small business entrepreneur (she owns a thriving fish and chip shop) — was elected earlier this year to the House of Representatives as an Independent MP. Her instant fame, or infamy as some call it; came wit! her maiden speech in Parliament. . ._ She bluntly demanded a total halt to immigration for an ‘unspecified | peri- = od, the abolition of official multiculturalism, cutbacks in aborigine aid and for- cign aid, and military service for youth. Wow! Australians g gasped in wonder at the new girl’s boldness: — though for widely differing reasons. Then the storm broke. The official Labor Party opposition — plus a vociferous minority of politi cally correct commentators an letter-writers to the editor — screamed for the tion recorded aparal rates of over 90% for Ms, Hanson. In little over a : month more than 2,200 letters of support flooded her office. Weeks later”. - polls still showed her backed by huge percentages and there was even talk of forming a “Pauline Hanson Party.” Meanwhile Coalition Prime Minister John Howard, a canny politician, stonewalled —- despite jitters among the 68,000 Asian students who. bring ~ Australia $3.6 billion a year, dire warnings of Asian trade ‘retaliation and. the odd Asian immigrant being spat upon. In a formal statement to the House’ Howard merely declared Australians to be a tolerant, fair-minded people, bur: pointedly declined to criticize Pauhue directly, So the Hanson pot was still boiling over when I left 10 days ago. Its back ground bears remarkable similarities to the Canadian picture. From the “White Australia” policy of 30 years ago, the country has move to open-door immigration, with ever-increasing numbers of Asiai, n weomers and a corresponding decline in Caucasians. : The’annual intake is now more than 99,000 (0.5% of the 18. million ‘po popu lation ‘compared with Canada’s 0.6% of its 30 million): Within 30 years the forecast is for 27% of Australians to be of Asian descent, with:Chinese fastest-growing ethnic group. Non-English-speaking arrivals cach year: a 42% of the toral, What Pauline Hanson dares to say pubiiely is what vast auumbers of, * Australians think privately: not that immigration is necessarily. bad bar h given today’s multicultural aspect — its present growth i is too’ fast for in a country with stubborn unemployment of over 8%. : : Racist? Forget the word. Thanks to unrepentant "Pauline; long used by Australia’s politically correct to stifle reasonabl a major public issue has now finally becn torn off. ; Ona MANY. HAPPY RETURNS of tomorrow, Nov. 18, to Mr. Seour Lior Les Mynott. WRIGHT OR WRONG: To knock a chip off someone’s shouldei uy a pat on the bac — The North Shore News believes strongly in freedom of st ‘speech and the right of. all sides in a debate to be heard. The columnists published in the News present dif fering points of view, but those views ave not neces thase of the newspaper vine Negara Sey re Sal Sami PL pL te ENA FAR ALS ORAL ec Hy amt Het nr CM NOCH | Arthur's Gacy RTHUR Griffiths was doubtless , feeling a chill down his spine read- g@ accounts of his liquidation from all things hockey carlier this week, Rather than unemotional accounts buried in the business sections between stock quotations, the sale of Griffiths’ family stake in Orca Bay to Seattle bil- Honaire John McCaw. was a ‘cause célébre. Page Onc. The headlines rang of muddied monarchy: “King Arthur Abdicates.” “King Arthur’s toppled from throne.” “Arthur gets short end.” But the reign of the Griffiths family as pro sport team owners was distinguished by class and integrity. When Arthur’s father Frank Sx. bought the struggling Vancouver Canucks back in 1974, the family Griffiths entered the limelight cast upon deitics of the professional sport world. Aad no dirt emerged from the shadows. Witness the havoc caused on-ice and off by the meddling and muddling Harold Ballard. Witness the bloody suc- cession battles of the East Coast McCains. No such chaos reigned during the Griffiths’ watch. When Arthur took the keys to the Canucks at the tender age of 24, no hint of family infighting surfaced, nor did it during the past 15 years. A tribute to the family Griffiths. Testimony to this can be found in a story that made the rousds back ist’ March 1995: on the evening of the day~- Arthur announced that McCaw. had become the majority sharcholder of Orca Bay, Arthur was the behind the. bench of the boys’ hockey team he helps coach at Hollyburn Country Club, Family ownership of professional sports? teams, like men of Arthuc’s met tle, is a thing o € the past. The sports’ community is poorer for that! passing. A tip of the helmet to Mr. Griffiths and his family.