NSIGHTS ON TE OTHER HAND, IF VOU WOTE Cut back cutblocks HE DECISION Friday by the Greater Vancouver Regional District - board of ~ directors to approve another seven cutbiocks in the North Shore’s Capilano and Seymour watersheds should be fis tast approval of such water- shed legging. Arguments have raged over the past year over the prudency of allowing. clearcut jogging operations in areas adjacent to reservoirs that supply water for 1.6 million people. | The GVRD claims is! watershed log- ging is more a forest msixtonance program than a profit-generating operation. Water- shed forests have been logged to remove unhealthy trees or those susceptible to fire, GVRD officials maintain. But environmentalists argue that healthy trees are being removed and that clearcut- ting areas of watershed forest has increas- LETTER OF THE ed watershed erosion, resulting in higher drinking water turbidity during heavy rains. Mest water consumers caught in the middie of the rhetorical combat zone need only tap available resources of common sense to determine that logging near water sources would likely have a detrimental impact on that water. Nature, after all, has maintained the forest and watershed water quality for mil- lions of years without man’s help. . It is encouraging, therefore, that the GYVRD board also voted Friday to restrict further logging in Lower Mainland water- sheds to irees currently afflicted with disease or pestilence or prone to forest fire until an ecological inventory is completed. That approach should become standard GYVRD practice. DAY No deal: Stop in the name of love Dear Editor: Well, it looks like they finally did it this time. All three national political parties, their choreography reminiscent of the Supremes in their heyday, have announced their support of the “deal.” So insulated from the real world are the boys and girls caliing the shots. frorn behind their weil- shielded doors in Ottawa that they are incapable — constitutionally incapable, perhaps? ~ of grasping a central fact here. Publisher..............Peter Speck Managing Editor... Timothy Renshaw Associate Editor . .Noel Wright Sates & Marketing Director Linda Stewart Comptroller Doug Foot North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualitied under Schedule 111, Paragraph tll of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lid and distributed to every doar on the North Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. Subscnptions North and West Vancouver, $25 per year. Mailing rates available on request. Submissions are welcome but we cannot accept responsibility for unsolicited maternal including manuscripts and pictures which should be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. When a system is so widely understood to be as corrupt, cynical, and morally bankrupt as is Canadian politics, its stamp of approval is in practice the kiss of death. Had one or another of the ma- jor parties announced opposition to the so-called agreement, a real quandary might have developed. Which ideology, leader or group inspires the least contempt? Which side is the most insulting unanimously hold to be in their own self-interest, Canada’s politi- cians have shown us where the best interest of Canada’s people lie. Enough said. As to the prime minister’s sales technique — the shameful thesis that questioning these hypocritical Politicians means disloyalty to Canada Samuel Johnson responded best in April of 1775: “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’* Brainwashed to pay for their brainwashing HEALTHILY CYNICAL about advertising, are you? No longer impressed by slick copy, purple prose and pretty pictures? Perfectly capable of making up your own mind whether the goods are worth buying? Brace yourself, then. Because for the next 18 days the govern- ment plans to flood you with an advertising torrent the like of which you’ve never seen. Ina period of just over two weeks Ot- tawa will spend upward cf $5 mil- lion on TV and newspaper ads to persuade, cajole or finally even frighten you into voting ‘‘Yes’’ on Oct. 26. All of it, by the way, with OUR money — hard-earned tax dollars that Revenue Minister Otto Jelinek has squeezed out of you and me. Phase One of this massive cam- paign, informational and low-key, is already running — pivoted on that huge ‘‘Consensus Report’’ ad with the full text of the Charlot- tetown Accord. Other ads focus on specific sections of the accord in restrained, factual copy. However, the motherhood theme of this first phase — ‘You have a right to know’’ — is deceptive. All you can know from the ads is what the deal actually SAYS, which naturally includes implied promises by Ottawa that everything will work out beautifully in practice. So it’s really the same as a hungry car salesman’s pitch before you test-drive the vehicle or have your own mechanic check it — and just about as helpful as a guide to whether you should buy. Thanksgiving will bring Phase Two of the battle for hearts, if not minds, wi the heat turned up. vOttawa’s main problem that the Noes, who KNOW what they dislike in the deal, will undoubdt- edly turn out in force to vote. The more confused Yeses — especially those who just want the whole thing over with — might not. Froni this weekend onward, therefore, lock for a deluge of “Canada depends on YOU!”’ ads, aimed simply at getting the Yes-Maybes to the polling station. No more time for education of debate. With reefs in sight ahead, it becomes purely a matter of all Yes-hands on deck. If next week’s poils show the Yeses rallying, that will be it. But if they’re not, prepare for a Phase Noei Wright HITHER AND YON Three in the final days to Oct. 26 — an onslaught of Doomsday ads about the breakup of Canada, reminding us what Canadians died for and tarring Noes as traitors. And at this stage money, yours and mine, will be no object. Without public funds, the No side’s advertising will, of course, be puny by comparison. It will depend on the unshakable convic- tions of its supporters to offset Ottawa’s awesome media blitz hammering away at the more lukewarm Yeses. And while brainwashing voters is one thing, it’s quite another for the brainwashed to have to pay for it with their own money. EGG-ON-FACE Dept.: Sunday’s column stated in error that West Van Chamber of Commerce gets no funds from West Van council, My query — answered in good faith, I believe, with a ‘‘no”’ — had been whether the chamber got . a ‘‘fee for services”’ like that which North Van Chamber receives from both North Van councils. Only after going to press did it emerge that West Van does, however, give the chamber a - variable annual grant, this year around $20,000. Sorry about that, Mayor Mark — but the question about a home for your servant. - still stands! to one’s intelligence? But the issue has resolved itself. 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