tly - reduce. .

“pregnant: “women,

‘ Conservative "government
_Seongerning : unemployment ‘insurance. will
: benefits — peine rae

. payments | ‘would: be cut to a ‘minimum
“necessary for basic survival. The report says
; sick ‘people and. the
“disabled would be ineligible : for ‘Payments. -

through

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It’s

"proposals |

This i issue ethe Inquiring Reporter asks:

“What do you. think

Ray Rex

North Vancouver _

-I think it’s rotten. It is not .
“fair . that.

those “most
helpléss will receive less

. benefits.

»

Neil Sutherland ~
_ North Vancouver

I think it is a bad idea. I
think they must be. cutti

: back | ‘becaiise “they” ‘have

lost ...so. much :, money
their’ - own”
mistakes. Why doesn’t
the new government put
some effort into creating
new jobs?

Galil Irvine
West Vancouver

I think it is unfair. If
people have paid into the
UIC fund, they should be
entitled to the benefits, if
they have worked the
required time.

Doug Drysdale
North Vancouver

a ridiculous idea.
They should be creating
jobs instead of making
the unemployed suffer
morc.

Rick Morrow
North Vancouver

It is a fact that
people make a lot of
money in a few months
and collect UIC:-benefits
the rest of the year.
Those people should be
cut off, not the sick and
disabled. Maybe anybody
who made more than
$15,000 in the past year
should not be eligible.

-“ereeks. with the garbage he

~Tieence and hunting out of

- be canned immediately.

| fisheries

and everyone.else who's ever
_ encountered Oscar very
Upset indeed..

. and wildlife Tegulations.

soOmc .

Getting fired by a.

government minister .
‘could be the best thing -
> that’s ever happened. to
‘Oscar McFoisy.. It may _
well turn out to be what.
“was needed’ to. turn’ an.

~oaf. into a star..

‘Oscar is ‘the ‘slob of. the a
‘ outdoors. He’s ‘the | guy. who's ~

-_ always out there screwing ‘up.

=the. environment* By
 thoughtlessly bulldozing his
“way through -the ‘local

. wildlife, . contaminating” the

dumps, fishing without a
‘season: In fact, if a rule
‘exists then Oscar’s out there
breaking it, —

* Strange ‘thing is that
everyone’. loves’ - him.
_ Everyone, that is, except
federal fisheries- minister
James McGrath. When he.
heard about ‘Oscar’s ‘antics
he decided the fellow should’ -

“and that’s. got the ‘local:

people, wildlife
officers, rod and gun clubs

“Oscar | is a | character:
‘created by North Shore fish :

-and wildlife conservation

officer Doug Adolph, who
~got a Calgary cartoonist to
: draw up various situations of
Os€ar’ ‘contravening fisheries’

The cartoons sprung from ™
.a series of articles Adolph >

wrote about three years ago
environmental.

to. create
concern and “which were
syndicated in various

“community” newspapers,
including the North ‘Shore
-News. - —

POPULAR

From
* Magazin e
children’ S_

quality
“much soughtafter. ” a

that. series. “came 5
cartoons,.
“calendars : and ©.
“posters”. of situational’ cars
‘toons -with.a high’ graphic |. .
that made them very .

‘his own: expense,

movie. tat

‘The’ ‘posters continued. to ©

gain. popularity . ‘until

fisheries. sent ‘them to Ot-_
tawa, ‘thinking » ‘they should

be run at a. ‘national level.:

“ “Instead, fisheries minister
iN McGrath” declared © “Oscar's

+. > DOUG ADOLPH — Oscar's Creator

‘The posters seemed’ to get
the Messages across, both:to
adults and kids alike, who
could relate more to Oscar
McFoisy situations than a

* rule book of regulations. =

Meanwhile’. conservation

‘officer Adolph thought up |

new ideas for the program
which was becoming such a
success, working completely
in his own time and much at

image to be overly negative
and ordered that - the
program be canned.

This left fisheries Pacific
region holding 23,000 Oscar

posters ata cost of more
than $3,000.

But. as far as. other

~ é .
agencies were concerned it

was an opportunity to grab
hold of a program which was

for an estimate call:

D.W. (Dan) Dickenson
872-0232

‘recording 2
an. Oscar McFoisy’™ ‘song and |.
ompiling. a _ “Promotional .

fisheries.

and |
Federation” <S is >

‘continue: : promoting

Other | “agencies puch - as
provincial government .
departments ‘and private
business all want to get their
hands on the Oscar. program
the. B. Cc. - Wildlife
already
negotiating with fisheries to

posters’ which will be
overprinted ‘with

fisheries. os

- Federation executive

’ director Bill Otway sees the
situation as an -opportunity
~ for the program. * =

ONLY PRAISE.
* “There has never ‘been

anything but praise for the

”

program,” he says;: “from
schools, teachers and the

general public.

: “But we have in effect
been very restricted, ©

refuse other offers, ‘so

fisheries may have helped us

in that respect.”

Otway says of the
minister’s decision: “The
minister is obviously not in
touch with the public pulse.

We have had nothing but .

good respoise with this

program.

. He says of Oscar’s image:
“Sure he’s ‘the average slob
and it’s. what he’s supposed
to be and that’s why ‘the

minister's so completely ‘out

of touch with the public.
| “Oscar explains ‘the
various sections of the

Fisheries Act in a manner
which is understandable and
enjoyable to the public and

the

the
’ federation’s name instead of

t

fisheries, who have had to

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