A6 - Wednesday, May 16, 1984 - North Shore News

GEE editorial pag

Phone bill threat

eregulation of a government-con-

trolled industry normally means

reduced prices tO cOnsumers as a
result of the competition thereby permitted.
Deregulation of the telephone’ industry,
however, could be a painful exception for
residential customers — the vast majority of
all phone users.

Their monthly phone bill, allowing un-
limited free local calls, comes nowhere near
covering the cost of that service. In Canada
the cost has been met so far thanks to the
monopoly the phone companies have en-
joyed over the highly profitable long distance
services which, with their majority of
business users, have heavily subsidized the
millions of local calls made by home
subscribers.

This fall the Canadian Radio-Television
and Telecommunications Commission will
hold hearings that could deregulate long
distance rates and thus slash phone company
profits. That has already happened in the
U.S., bringing much higher monthly phone
bills and the beginning of payment for local
calls. Businesses with a large volume of long
distance calls benefit, of course, but almost
all other users, including small businesses,
suffer sharply increased costs.

Maybe ‘‘user pay’? (i.e., in FULL) is
ultimately the only fair way to go. But if
Canada follows the U.S., it will likely mean
an early end to the affordable home phones
we’ve taken for granted since the days of
Alexander Graham Bell.

If you want your voice heard, orally or in
writing, at the fall hearings, notify the
Secretary General, CRTC, Ottawa, Ont.
K1A ON2 before May 22. Its YOUR phone
voice they might price out of the market.

Ticketed? Smile!

eeping law and order is a demanding

and sometimes dangerous job these

days. Salute the men and women who
do it for us during this national Police Week.
Give the passing cop a friendly wave. Take a
policeman to lunch. Even if you're ticketed
this week, give the officer a smile. You can
always have your day in court — and your life
and property would be in a lot worse shape if
he wasn’t around all the rest of the time!

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Ideologists hamstring NDP

HE PROBLEM facing the provincial NDP
this weekend is not the choice of a new
leader — it’s how to catch up with the
mid-1980s. Unfortunately, the only candidate who
grasps the nature of the problem is apparently trail-

ing the pack.

Unhke Grit and = Tory
leader hunts, the NDP
power struggle is) primarily
about ideologies As a result,
thev’ll produce Dave
Barrett's: successor by Sun
day but may well split’ the
party down the middle as
they do it

The square off is between
the mainstreamers and = the
radicals, personified
respectively by Ball Kang and
David Vickers, the
present frontrunners

King, $3) whoo lost his
l cgistature seat in last years
election, tepresents the loval
middle otf the road NDP
establishment and is believed
ta be quicth backed ty
Barrett AS NDP
labor minister be Collected a
gencrous stock of
oe ey

two

former

political
introducing the

orginal labor Code and
Human Rights € ode.
founding the Labor Kela

Board and
oOning women bor
responsibility He

TOs champs
posts of

loves the

labor umons and wants them
to play an ever bigger role in
party affairs

Former deputy attorney
general Vickers, 49. a one-
ume Liberal with the ink
hardly dry on his NOP card,
is an intellectual radical who
blames the ‘‘old people’’ tn
the party for its
altract the young

fatlure to
long on
social issues but a good deal
shorter on econontie
polices, he Burst to pro

minence last year with fiery
speeches in
Solidanity's

demonstrattons

support oof
antl government
and

Qinues to preach the

con
Virtucs

of protest marrhes as an

alternative to the
parhamentary process
Nanaimo MILA Dave

Stuprh, 62. ranks asa
steady mainstreamer. though
well behind King in the del
cyate Count
radical flag bearers ate
Alberni MEA Robert Skelly.
4) and
Margaret

The two other

women's activist
Baceell 4\ the

LETTER OF THE DAY

Noel Wright

Ce
Skelly was
polttiucally by
“ped resources
Bob Wilhams Bir
ell demands a clean break
with the past and a return to
the NDP’s origins asia
fighting democratic

doctrinaire
weancd
Barrett's
monsstet

socialist
movement

That leaves Prince Rauprcnt
MLA and tormer highways
minister Garaham bLca. 49) as

the party’s lone (and ap-
parently unrecognized) voice
of political sanity.

Lea believes
mainstreamers and radicals
ahke are hamstrung by ar-
chaic and negative
approaches. He would
distance the NDP from the
unions and encourage
cooperation between private
and public enterprise. Above
all, he stresses training for
the Mmgh tech and service
sectors as the only answer to
the ‘‘harsh realism’’ of
today’s unemployment,
which can no longer be
solved by the primary
resource industries

lca is clearly more in tune
with the thinking of most
present day British © oluim
bians than any of his
opponents He points the
way to the gaping vacuum in
BC's political centre where
the NDP 's sole realistic hope
of regaining power hes But
with the reported support of
onty about seven per cent of
the committed delegates. a
Pea ovetoty this weekend
would be the politieal
cquivalent of pigs Cyan

Which ts a pity for the
NDP

with

but thats the troubide

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Andrew Milne
North Vancouver