Livid over loophole

Dear Editor:
Re: Loophole taps local
‘ learning Feb. 14 News,

1 am not xenophobic but
this blanket and blatant abuse
has ramifications fur beyond
mere petty complaints.
Despite what the paper
believes is a fair exchange of
cash for curriculum, it just is
not.so simple.

Yes, these students pay
school tuition fees, but this
money would be available if

* people marched in the strects
demanding transfer payments
not be cut. The students pose
another problem: they, in
effect, take space and valuable

time away from youngsters
who live ful}-time in Canada.

I do not begrudge any
immigrant child to obtain an
education, but who is to deter-
mine if these .people will
remain to contribute to our
society or merely go to anuth-
er nation offering Jucrative
perks in job placement? All
the while sucking on the teat
of community services apart
from school.

The answer to this conun-
drum is to require that immi-
grants live in Canada with
their children if they attend
school here. .

J am not against immigra-

No to amalgamation

Dear Editor: :

‘, Re: West Vancouver School 7

ws District 45 amalgamation. _

I strongly support the rese-
lutions of the West Vancouver
"school. board: and “municipal
“> council rejecting the Proposed

amalgamation. :

Beware the metallic biue |

“know: the rules of the road? -

“e Beware ., ‘of a: “mental

“midget driving a metallic blue °:

Datsun ‘sports car. Where did
he get his licence? Dees: he

I agree with the board and
council that it is uneconomic,
anti-democratic, unnecessary
and administratively impossi-
ble to implement by the

* imposed deadline.

Clair Hawes
West Vancouver :

Does he care?

Kandi Campbell
North Vancouver

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For. 10: oe we are reducing our
membership sates to 1983 prices

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there was no GST

» & personalized programs

~ & co-ed & ladies only area

° & new cardio centre
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A squash & racquetball :

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A childcare & indoor suntanning

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; percentogy-6, and (b) The targe amounts of §
1 money stil! Boing poured Inte the PC Party
oT by “ths establiziment", failed to transiste ©
1 into’ votes. © '

_poTed White, MP.

tion or multiculturalism bur !
blatant abuse of Gur services
should not be tolerated,

We must all receive full
services bul we must give
something back in return. As
they said at the Boston Tea
Party revolt, “No taxation,
without representation.”

Therefore none of the
perks of Canadian society if
obtained by fraudulent means
or abused through loopholes
in the law!

Sidney A. Waite
North Vancouver

says:

Wednesday, April 3, 1996 -

KIDS FOLLOW THE
WATER SAFETY RULES

Psychic fare

Dear Editor:
had an
experience not too long
ugo: | went to see a psychic.
She saw into the future. She
described the following
seene in the year 2050. The
place is a North Van grave-
yard. There is a big tomb-
stone, The inscription on it
“Unter
grossen stein liegt Peter
Schpeck, das alte schwein.”
Love und Peace,

Frank Ludde

The Injector,

North Vancouver

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Reform f BC i is anew and powerful voice for all British:
Columbians. Together, we will make government listen. .

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REFORM PAATY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

| “The first major test: ‘ot ‘support, levels -
| for Reform since ‘the 1923 elaction came |
during the by-elections ald on March 25,
1996. The results left no doubt that Reform
ia now the main alternative to voting

| Liberal, but they also. showed that (a)

Recent national polts could not be used to
the actual. election

.” ponors 7
Prior to the by-election date, | researched
) the records. of corporate donations to the

| Liberals, PCs, and Reform in 1994, the latest

i yaar for which statistics are available. In case

' you thought Reform was ‘in with the banks", °

the top six banks and the Canadian Bankers
} Association donated $255,169.78 to the
f Liberals, $226,138.17 to the PCs, and just
1 $20,200 to: Reform that year. ($20,000 of this

contribution came from the. TD Bank, while |

the. other $200. cama from the Bank ot
Montreal.)

‘The top 80 list of.corporate donors gave
more then $2 million to the Liberals, and a
similar amount to the PCs, while. Reform

‘ Preceived less than $300,000. Meny wall

‘known companies such as ABC Dominion
i Securities, Filchardson Greenshields, and
k Coopers and Lybrand gave nothing at all to
} Reform, even though they donated to the
| Liberais, POs, and NDP.

POLLS

# «=: On Saturday, March 2, 1996, Angus Reid
Group released a poll of 1500 Canadian
§ adults which placed Liberal support at 58%,

1 Reform support at 13%, and PC support at

12% af decided voters nationwide.
f These results bothered me because | speak
| regularly at public meetings across Canada
‘and ry “gut feeling" told me that the actual
, support for Aeform was much higher.
¥ On March 4th, { obtained a copy of the
poll, and noted that the question which had
f been asked was: "Thinking of how you
feel right now, which Party's
| candidate would you be most likely te
support if a federal election were held
tomorrow?" | am not a polling professional
of course, but it seemed to me that asking

which Party's candidate you would support

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question not therefore favour the Libarals?
| called.the Toronto affice ‘of Angus. Reld

“yote |.

polling question. had always giv

ne be

" accurate results during election’ raed

elections. He’ said he would ask

get back to me with an answel, but

ever has. - a ne
‘Despite the pails, , and. th

corporate donations to Reform, the” ‘bye

_ election results showed a significant increase

in Reform support. This was especially true in.
parts of the couritry where: many people Fi}
thought Reform had ne. hope of attracting j “

large numbers of volers.
RESULTS

in Labrados, the Reform vote went trom |
0% in 1293 to 30%: the Liberals dropped to:
41% trom 80%, and the Pos dropped to just Bo

8.7% from 19%.
In. Etobicoke, Reform almost doubled its

1993 result to 36% of the vote, the. Liberals |
dropped fram 61% to: 46%, and the: Pos |

drapped to 11%.

in Humber, Newfoundland, Reform icse |

from 0% in 1993 to 18%, the Liberate
dropped from more than 80% to 56%, and

the PCs gained some points to finish at 24%, ©

In the threa Quebec ridings the race was
betwen. the Liberals and the. Bloc

Quebecois, with Reform and the PCs palling ©

roughly equal results in the range of. 0.6% to
2.8% of the vete. In other words, Quebec
voters in these by-elections’ did not consider
the PC Party to be any more of, a contender
than was Reform.

| The resuits ta “Labrador,

Newfoundiand, and Ontario clearly show a:

solid increase in Reform support, much
more than would be expected, even in.a
by-election. Liberal’ support ‘dropped
WELL BELOW the fevel recorded In the
most recent nationwide poll, while Reform
support was more than double that
predicted, averaging around 28%. —

A cornplete list of the by-election results is
available by calling my office. :

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