RE neu BSD | SUA SUIT. wornonly once.$20 (BO AJR CONDTIONER never been switched on. oacrifice at $250 OUTDOOR FURNITURE, used briefly $200. or trade ea tarp. WATER SKIS. never used Will trade for Firewood. LAWN CHAIRS. only 3 months old.Cushions have some mould. ra RANE used only once . $600 .. SUN BLINK. twenty tubes. Still noriginal case, Case. Offers SUNUME WNBRELLA hardly used, will trade for Sump pump. first $50 takes tt. OUTDOOR BARBEQUE, some rust, but OK. Trade for Toingeer. WEATHER PORECETER looking for job with ¢ more future and NEWS VIEWPOINT Essential advice {HE FOLLOWING makes for a con- Nincing definition of an essential service. Hts a Crown corporation employing | 2 300 workers. a it did over $50 million worth of business in B.C. last year. . ports .from “industries and businesses all - over the province, making it the transporta- ., tional lifeline for industries in Canada’s largest port and most other ports along the country’ s West Coast. ; Mts: “reliability” mirrors. the reliability. of ; B. C; itself as a major ‘supplier: of raw ma- terials, wheat and- manufactured goods to the rest.of the world, © . Its failure to: deliver is seen 2S. the pro-. vince’s failure to deliver. in short, its shutdown not only has a severe impact on local industries and local economies, it tarnishes B. C.’s image in the eyes of the world. It, of course, is BC Rail. And its recent month-long strike kas cost Nortii Shore in- dustries such as Fibreco Export Inc. mil- -lions of dollars in lost contracts. It has also ‘cost the railway itself over $30 milfion. : It would have cost everybody much more fad not Labor Minister Moe Sihota ordered striking unions back to work earlier this week. The strike solved nothing. It succeeded _ Only in creating bitterness and losses for an. : operation that has turned fosses fo suc- cesses in recent years. Declaring the BC Rail operation an essential service provides a better long-term ‘Solution. “NEWS ¢ QUOTES OF THE WEEK “Only one-fifth (of the popula- tion) are voting (in municipal elec- tions). That’s tragic, and you can ‘bet it wil} be the four-fifths that complain.” North Vancouver City Coun. Rod Clark, proposing a fine for residents who don't vote in municipal elections. (From an Aug. 25 News story.) “J think we’d be much better served to have a committee of citi- zeus to set some guidelines.. Ad hoc honoring should not be feft to the politicians of the day.”’ North Vancouver District Coun. Paul Turner —. during discussion on naming a mountain after Deep Cove climber Dan Culver — on what he said was the potential for honoring ‘“twhatever is fashion- able.” (From an Aug. 25 News story.) : “I've said goodbye 12 times and it never gets easier.” North Vancouver RCMP Insp. \ Peter Wlodarezak — on leaving staff at the local detachment to take up a new position at the RCMP’s divisional headquarters in Edmonton, Alberta. (From an Aug. 22 News story.) “Of course they’re going to go all the way. They’re from the greatest place on the Earth.”’ Jason Powers of North Van-~ couver, to the Aug. 25 Inquiring Reporter’ question: ‘‘Will Lynn Valley team win the world title? . 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RA ; ud 4 This newspaper i contains, recycled tipre Notth Snore managed 980-0511 Distribution. 986-1337 G9 Subscriptions 986-1337 Fax 985-3227 Administration 985-2131 MEMBER 985-2131 aemenstf Rl Sete Ton = WEDNESDAY © FRIDAY rT] 'SDA OIVISION 61,582 (average citculation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) Entire contents © 1993 North Shore Free Press Lid. All rights reserved. ar to election as in Cana la KIM CAMPBELL’S current love-in with the media is: distracting public attention from the most bizarre — and potentially most destructive — factor in the upcoming | fed- eral election. We're taiking about Lucien Bouchard’s Bloc Quebecois (BQ) — the seven former Quebec Tory and Grit MPs who split from their parties after the failure of Meech Lake, plus an eighth who joined them following a byelection. In this first general election © they’ve contested they’re talking of winning up to 50 of Quebec’s 75 seats. While that may be overly optimistic, the current polls don’t entirely dismiss such a claim. And even with 35-40 seats, the BQ could well play a balance-of- power role vis-a-vis 2 minority government in the new parliament. That is Bouchard’s declared goal. Last week he amplified it by promising no BQ member would ever join a federal cabinet. “Day-to-day’” alliances, maybe. But no permanent links with any other party. If this were the script of a comedy-drama movie about some tinpot central European ‘‘people’s democracy,” it would be hilari- ous. But not so hilarious in Canada’s case would be, for ex-. ample, a minority Liberal gov- ernment under Jean Chretien wholly dependent for survival on 40-50 Quebec MPs dedicated soley to wrecking the nation. Having no other policy, the BQ clearly make no contribution to measures affecting Canada as a LUCIEN BOUCHARD... united Canada not needed. GORDON CAMPBELL... crossing not needed. new = Neel Wright HITHER AND YON whole. In fact, it could not even’ ‘logically participate in ‘negotiatin Quebec’s separation,: : ‘ While Quebec remains part of Canada; its people are entitled to’: be fully represented in Pariiament’ during any such negotiations. A party whose only goal is to reject the very legitimacy of Parliament: ‘cannot properly perform ‘that task At the national level the BQ : °: ‘therefore remains a self-fulfilling . anomaly. Having no mandate to . Speak for electors except on a j { spe issue, in effect it virtually ' disenfranchises those who Vote ‘fo it. This, of course, won 7 stop Lu- cien Bouchard’s gang from show- .ing up in strength this fall If,-as., widely expected, no party wins a- Commons majority; Canada’s best hope lies in some working allian’ — Liberals and NDP or-Torie: and Reformers — able to provide stable government. Government i dependent of the nation’s enemy. in their midst. : : For that’s exactly what ” Bouchard and the BQ are. So far from occupying seats of power in »: Parliament, with all its privileges. . im and perks they would be treated in * most other countries as traitors. : But never in Canada ... where - Guy Fawkes, who centuries ago” tried to blow up Britain’s parlia-: ment, would have done just fi fine! oe WRAP-UP: North Shore provin- cial Liberals beware — you may have to walk on water to work if ~. Gordou Campbell becomes your —_. leader! In last Wednesday’s News ” fellow columnist Louise Aird ‘ reports the mayor of Vancouver as telling her he’s opposed to any replacement for the creaking Lions Gate Bridge, now surviving on five years’ borrowed time... Congrats . to Cap College media resources .. instructor Keith Watt on winning. ‘: silver in the New York Interna- tional Radio Festival for his 45- minute documentary Buddies — Portrait of a Friendship, produced | - for CBC Radio. The prestigious 35-year-old festival is the world’s largest radio competition ... And the upcoming Vancouver Interna- tional Film Festival needs volun- "teers — call 685-0260 for full details if interested. oecoc- WRIGHT OR WRONG: A speech, in order to be immortal, _ does not have to be eternal.