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»Muiieipalitiés should | get nuclear

WEST VANCOUVER’ District is calling for the billions of:

“Mayor Don Lanskail- was the

only, member of district council iG)

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vole against. the. motion made
Monday by Ald. Dave Finlay.
“My: natural instinct i8 to’ sup-

port this motion, ‘but-] ‘wonder if it”

isn't outside” of: our® jurisdiction
and expertise,’* “commented Lan-

* oskail, oe:

* Vancouver ‘Ald. “David
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“Sager abstai ed from

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explained = how.” the
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(4 ‘dollars in federal funds slated-for.a nuclear submarine. pro-

‘i.gram to be redirected soward: maintenance of Municipal in-
i frastructure:* :

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- The’ cost of rehabilitating the -

municipal infrastructure in Canada
has been estimated. at $12 billion
over a. five-year period, Finlay
conjectured.” This’ would create. -
~ 225,000 to 285,000 person/years of.
“employment, he added.

» “I don't. feel the nuclear ’ sub--
marine program “could hold a can-

dic‘to that," -Pintay said?

; ‘Finlay also warned that the. cost .
of maintaining roads only becomes
more expensive thejionger they are

, allowed to deteriorate... ‘

But. West Vance! ver resident

7 Kenneth Mcintyre, 'president of the »
“Naval.” Officers Association
,, B.C, argued: “It! may be that if

of.

we spend the money on roads, we

won't have the roads to drive on.?

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Mcintyre said ‘that-“about
‘been:,

oviet.- “submarines have

known to frequent the waters off.

the'coast of 8. Coy with another 192

‘to’ensure payment Is

4 ‘submarines i in the arctic.

‘nuclear submarine program if
Canada control |

it would |:
“ enable Canadian’ “submarines :

nol give
to
move from one coast’ td:the other,
without passing through forcign
waters. :

Ald. Finlay said it-was folly that
Canada should want to. ‘play ine
the big boys league."' ,
~ “Weshave two players in the ‘big
league — and ‘that's two too
many,"' Finlay added.

McIntyre told the News “tater
that Canadian analysts estimate =
the program will'cost about $8
billion, not. $10. to 20. ‘billion.

Money - has been ‘slated towards

‘updating the navy, which has: slip. |
. ped since the 1940s when it was the”
* third largest in the world.

Mcintyre: said that it is wiser to.
spend these funds onthe kind of

submarines that can be submerged, “4
time, .

for ‘extended. periods of :
“rather than on surface crafth =

“T's insurance, Like some of
the other services we pay J for, such.”
as police, fire...we buy it, with the

intention. that we aren't going.to ~ fj

need it,” said McIntyre: ;

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