~ North Shore News

6 ~ Sunday, September 29, 1996

The North Shore News is published hy Morth:
Shore Free Prezs Utd, Publisher Peter Speck,
from 1139 Lonsdale Avenug
Worth Vancouver, 8.0., VTHA 2H4

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RAELI PRIME MINISTER NETAN-YAHOO DEFENDS:
HIS HANDSHAKE WITH YASSER ARAFAT.

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quotes of the

24] can’t‘imagine Ernie Crist

_ tipping cigarettes out of mouths

: of Eikers in bars. I’d like to, but
T imagine he'd only do it once.”

‘West. Vancouver Coun. Andy -

* Danyliu, on theinced to ensure all

“three municipalities have'a consis-
tent no-smoking bylaw. (From a.’
‘Sept. 22 News story.) . ue

rane 900..

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obnoxious; but, well, it was
obnoxious. It’s amazing how
they deal with you when you pay ©
their salaries."7

"Dick Campbell, on his dealings
“with North Vancouver City staff

: over a sign bylaw dispute. (From.a
_, Sept. 27 News story). 0.0 th
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‘here and do anything mean or.

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law, after having served. three. years
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sand deerdxaed! to every deur on the North Shore. Canada

EWS flash: we ‘live-in taxing
“Sl times. Sorry. Old news you say?
=i These remain taxing times,
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Laas : Despite the consistent call from pri-
_ s | vate citizens and businesses across the
‘{]| land to apply brakes to the runaway tax”
train',and ‘to: simplify tax regulations,
\politicians and-burcaucrats remain large-.
‘ly hard of hearing; ae
“With Canada now beyond. the $600.
billion mark in net public debt and the
» socialists in Victoria doing their best.to
inflate, the debi for: present and future
“generations of British Columbians, frus-

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Hebert, on'the company’s takeover

bid of North, Vancouver's Hard Suits
Inc. (From a Sept. 27 News story.)

‘47 think you're making a ter:
rible mistake to say it’s a cash -
cow and alf that other.crap. In
my.mind that’s sim;

¢ radar isn’t OK doesn’t make any

i. North Vancouver District Mayor
“Murray Dykeman,
- @ one-year photo radar trial pro-
gram in the district.
25 News story.) +,

“Tons of them.”"
s West Vancouver suit-selling
. “great Murray Goldman,’on exactly
-how many suits he has sold over the!’
past 50 years,

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“(my) private law practice” when my

new crossint

IT’S now high time for long-suf-
fering users of the creaking Lions
Gate Bridge to face the truth and
take matters into their own hands.

"The unholy financial mess created by
Victoria’s NDP tricksters — forced to slash
spending by $750 million even while pinch-
ing another $400 million from the once

sacrosanct. Forest Renewal Fund —- means ee
there is not a snowbail-in-hell’s hope of public money for a new cross-
ing until we finally turf out Glen Clark’s government around A.D.
’, Even then there may be no quick funding availablé. Add
construction period of, say, four years and it could be 2010 or late
before relief arrives, Always provided the Present span, by then’ 70. years
‘old, has not meanwhile fallen into the First‘Narrows. «05: i?
Yet the ideal answer — a 21st century crossing that could ‘pay for.
itself — has gathered dust in a government filing cabinet. since’ 1994
The Bentzen Tunnel would provide six traffic fanes and ‘two rapid
transit tracks between North Van and West Georgia: — and also. contin-
‘ ; ' we on underground to False Creek. It‘would free Stanley. Park Causeway.
for park use and unclog numerous north-south downtown ‘arteri ;
Development of a new 150-acre-island off Brockton: Point;’created
out of construction fill, could cover the $1.2 billion ‘cost.’ Alternatively,
an immediate small “user fee” on‘e: ing crossings — like that for the!
‘airport — could minimize commercial development on the is
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the News present. differing points of view, but those views are not ne
sarily those of the newspaper itself. - _ oF ;

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Taxing times =
tration builds on all fronts. _ age of business: people ‘concerned about.

The annual Financial : Post/Arthur looming recession and
Andersen National: Survey of Canadian. provincial economies.
Private Companies reflects that frustra-' Predictably, many of the b
tion. An overwhelming majority of the ple surveyed said small ‘bus
survey’s respondents said, for example, . 7
that taxes were the biggest speed bump:
on the road to success in this country...

The small business community, which
continues to be the main engine for gen-
erating jobs and innovation in Canada;
is hamstrung at every turn by high taxes
and absurdly complex tax rules, regula-
tions and returns,

The survey also found.a

be

of red tape would benefit all except the

bands of bureaucrats that need such fog
"| and obfuscation to survive and multiply,

high percent- Taxing times are taxing’ patience.

weak federal and