A2 - Wednesday, Novessher 26, 1980 - North Shore Neus

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; 2 Strictly personal —

. by Bob Hunter
Setting us up for what?

‘The fact that 13 per cent of the people on the
North Shore are toymg with the thought of

and another 30 per cent are un-

decided whether they want to stay in Canada or

not, tells me something.

One of my favorite writers
on the subject, Jane Jacobs,

1 know that biculturalism
ts the Holy Grail of Eberal-
thinking Canadians
everywhere, but 'm a bio-
culturalist myself. I think
there's a lot to be said for the
idea that small is beautiful.
that people know what is
best for themselves, and that
a remote bureaucracy in a
distant capital is the worst
kind of rule to live under.

can suspend habeas corpus
at will.

I notice that Keith Spicer.
the nationally syndicated
columnist, argues that
balkanization of Canada
would scare off foreign
investors. He offers ts as
proof of the absolute
necessity of maintaming the
political status quo.

Well, that may make sense
if we want to carry on
forever with a branch plant
economy. It may make sense
if we are willing to see our
regional cities continue as
service centres for the ex-
ploitation of hinterland
resources, trapped in an
inevitable boom-and-bust

over the country as a whole,
ts to make federation un-
workabic.”

What it means ts that, m a
coantry of 23 million people,
six milion of them — the
citizens of Quebec — should
be given legal and political
control over the country's
fate equal to the rest of the

Also, its been ten years
I sti] haven't gotten over the
shock of waking up one
morming to find that I was
living in a police state.

From what I understand of
Pierre Trudeau's con-
stitutional package, the
draconian War Measures
Act will be essentially
retained intact.

So long as that Act, or its
entrenched = successor,
remains a part of the body of
Canadian law, no one can
claim that Canada is a
legitimate democracy. I
mean, the prime minister

NV men hurt as car overtums

mo

1972 Toyota made a bad lane
change, according to
Vancouver Police, collided
with a 1980 Chev which was
also travelling = north.
skikided, flipped over and
landed upsade down.

Both injured men had
been travelling m the Toyota
and were taken to St. Paul's
Hospital m Vancouver. The

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driver of the Chev was also a
North Vancouver man.

No further details of the
accident were available from
Vancouver Police.

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But there is, m fact. a
growing body of cconomic
thought, best expressed by
E.F. Schumacher, that

challenges the theory of
economies of scale.

Warning against the
“idolatry of large size,”
Schumacher argues that the
necessity of a large internal
market is mostly an optical
ilusion.

Whether the market is
inside or outside a political
boundary makes very little

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I could go on — and, some
other time, I will. The point
is, we are faced with a
genuine crisis of authority in
this country, and we owe it
to our own native  in-
telligence to take a hard,
hard look at what Trudeau &

Co. are trying to set us up
for.

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